By
Tom Blood
Piece description from the artist
A loaf of sliced bread on a cutting board sits in front of an open window. Outside, amongst a backyard of greenery, stands a man in a bowler hat. He is also sliced. Nothing sinister is meant with this painting. I wondered if I could pull off painting a loaf of sliced bread. That got me to thinking about if I could paint a person as if he or she were similarly sliced. Who better to get the treatment than the man in the bowler hat as part of my on-going homage to Magritte? The problem I faced was to figure out where such a setting would take place. Putting him outside the window allowed me to really draw focus on the loaf of bread. It is only when you take a closer look at the man that you realize he is sliced. And similar to Magritte's famous painting, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" the man in the bowler hat is merely an image of a man so slicing that image is not really slicing a man. It is merely slicing two images in the same painting. Hopefully, it's startling enough to make you look twice! I hope you enjoy it.
Tom Blood is a self-taught, modern-day surrealist, heavily influenced by his all-time favourite artist, Rene Magritte. Some of his early works include two crowd favorites – "Bobby Hull" which was created using a palette knife and "The Three Stooges" which was created using three primary colors. Since that time, Tom has pursued a more surrealistic path. He paints ideas. His goal is to paint the impossible, or at least, the highly improbable. With his paintings, viewers can always tell what's going on, not necessarily knowing why. He wants his paintings to tell stories that make people think, or bring a smile. His work has won numerous awards locally and he has had a number of solo shows in the St. Louis, Missouri area where he was born and raised.
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