Superman Lives: Sylvain Despretz' Skullship concept art for the unmade Superman Lives (1997) references right panel from Luncheon of the Boating Party triptych, (1985) by William Kentridge?

 

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Superman Lives: Sylvain Despretz' organic skullship

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Right panel from Luncheon of the Boating Party triptych, (1985) by William Kentridge

 

 

 

a) Superman Lives: Sylvain Despretz' Skullship concept art for the unmade Superman Lives (1997)

 

 

b) "Lost Rumba, Lost Recuendo" (from the Rumbas portfolio) (1993) by Moebius

 

c) Here it seemed as if bowl with some unidentifiable mass and the burning tire set up the position for the eye socket , with the space between then becoming the nasal cavity

 

 

d) The tire appears to become the eye socking viewing port, and perhaps the flames contribute to the sharp jagged forms above

 

 

 

e) Here it would seem though that the general tire shape had been stretched sideways if we're going tto look at the fence sloping downwards as the pipe

 

 

 

f) The turquoise fence slanting downwards from behind the tire here becomes the pipe.

 

 

g) The lower part of the front of the woman. The turquoise fence contributes to the flow of he encrusted pipe work while the woman's arm on he left becomes a keel like structure

 

 

 

h) The front of the woman's garment appears to become an open space on the lower part of the the ship, looking as if the orange yellow highlights have become the white shining reflections

 

 

 

i) The woman's head becomes this near mound like mass of something, then the turquoise fence coming out from behind her head becomes pipes

 

 

 

j) The potato masher like object on the ground and the equivalent area which would be the space between the pipes or supports on top of the bulbous growth like form.