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Cherchez La Femme!
Some street style inspiration snapshots taken during NYC fashion week…..visual eye candy to inspire us all to add some pizzazz with color, texture and mix & match patterns to our wardrobe essentials!!
All images courtesy of Tommy Ton.
ARIAN BEHZADI.
Inspiration ALTERT: Behold the visual stimulating work of Arian Behzadi, a Biological Sciences major, who ‘between classes’ does these amazing mixed media collages.
I have always found parallels between art and the sciences so a lot of my studies find their way into my artwork.
Anything that has modern futurism, vintage touches and plays with texture is golden in our book ~ enjoy!
-Images courtesy of TRENDLAND
Love, Lost & (waiting to be…) Found
Do you believe in ♥ at first sight? Australian artist and kids book illustrator Sophie Blackall surely does! Mr Blackall breathes new and wondrous life into the Missed Connections section of Craigslist.com with whimsical, funny, and achingly beautiful paintings based on the short descriptions of NYC strangers who could be more…… perfectly fitting for Valentine’s Day romance.
What Dreams May Come…..
Jerry Wayne Downs continues the art of the great surrealists. Working as an animator at Disney Animation for ten years on such productions as Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, The Sword in the Stone and The Jungle Book, his artistic interests clearly revolve around the world of make-believe.
Downs then left Disney Animation to pursue a career in fine art in 1967 and devoted himself entirely to a career as a fine art painter in the Surrealist tradition.
Mr. Downs breaks through the veil of conventionality and brings to a contemporary audience a fresh perception of the nature of reality.
With artistic alchemy, Mr. Downs fashions dreamlike worlds populated with fanciful illusion.
Liberté, Egalité, Feminité: {FORNASETTI Plates}
The whimsical collection of Fornasetti Plates were brought to our attention when VERRIER paid a visit to Louis Boston last May – leaving us curious to investigate more into the heritage of this Italian artist.
Piero Fornasetti was an Italian artist so prolific, it is said that he produced over 11,000 original art + design objects throughout his lifetime. His plates series equals the one he had with Lina Cavalieri’s face, which he discovered in a 19th century French magazine.
What’s most fascinating is his obsessiveness through the use of a single image over and over again – and his capacity to present it each time in an entirely new angle.
Taking her as much as a muse and as a motif, he would return to Lina Cavalieri’s face again and again throughout his career.
The archetypal classic female features and enigmatic expression of Lina Cavalieri became Fornasetti’s most frequently used template, upon which he based more than 350 variations.
The Mona-Lisa doppelgänger face appears provocative at times and playful at others.
It was this formal, graphic appeal, rather than Lina’s celebrity as opera’s greatest beauty, that demanded such loyalty and inspired the spontaneous and relentless creativity of Fornasetti’s work.
For him, this face became the ultimate enduring motif. With great modesty all these works were reproduced on a series of everyday objects – like the plates pictured in this post.
Fornasetti is celebrated as being among the most original creative talents of the twentieth century.
During his career he created a visual vocabulary that is instantly recognizable and unceasingly engaging.
Fornasetti designed a magical world, saturated in image and color and filled with whimsy and wit making us believe in the infinite potential of a single portrait.
For purchase of Fornasetti’s designs, please visit ~ L’Eclaireur
Hobnobbing with the Big-WIGS : {Paper-Cut Project}
Am perpetually astounded by the phenomenal patience of artists working in paper! In previous blog entires, we introduced the brilliant elbow grease of Confetti System, Su Blackwell’ s delicate cut-outs and not to forget Anna-Wili Highfield’s extraordinary paper menagerie. All such work undeniably pushing the boundaries of what you can fashion with the likes of paper, glue and scissors! And joining the ranks of our paper-craft idols: Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry, whose Paper-Cut-Project has produced stunning wigs for fashion ‘bigwigs’ such as Kate Spade and Cartier.
Since joining forces 18 months ago, Salk, a former boutique owner, and Flurry, a writer and stylist, have been transforming sheets of paper into dramatic silhouettes–including 18th-century hairpieces that climb to impossible heights–using a steel-blade knife and some glue.
Each piece is assembled almost exclusively from white Bristol board, with the preferred depth and detail achieved through the shadows cast by laboriously overlapping pieces.
In so doing, Salk and Flurry deliver a fresh take on one of the simplest and oldest materials. “I want to make our audiences forget about what we’re not supposed to be able to do with paper,” Salk says. A paper job most definitely well done ~ BRAVA ladies!!
Wallpaper Camouflage
The artist Cecilia Paredes experiments with her own body by painting intricate floral wallpaper designs onto herself in order to blend seamlessly with the background. The result is amazingly effective and in some instances you can barely see her.
“The illusion of ‘disappearing’ into the landscape that surrounds her, is in reality a blending, she is now ‘part of the landscape’ in her quest of belonging,” Paredes explains. “The theme behind all is re-location after displacement and migration and how one has to adjust in order to belong. Tough it is, but it has to be done, without forgetting our origin.”
