Check out this slideshow of fashion photographs inspired by fine art. It includes some of my favorites from both sides of the fashion/art divide including, Steven Mesiel, Peter Lindbergh, Gustav Klimt, Jacques Louis David, Édouard Manet, Sir John Everett Mallais, and Roy Lichtenstein. Of course, it also includes the ever breathtaking muses Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman.
Find more in Chloe Wyma’s article.
Awww yeah! Thor 2! Can’t wait!
Hermès hosted a dinner to celebrate the final night of its 4th annual Saut Hermès
The Saut Hermes at the Grand Palias is quite the artistic synergy of sport, fashion, Parisian architecture, and product placement.
Photo by Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
The PMCA’s California Scene Paintings from 1930 to 1960 was featured in HuffPost Arts & Culture yesterday!!!
Horray for California art!
Phil Dike
Holiday, 1931
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches
Mike and Susan Verbal Collection
Bored on this lazy Sunday? Why not take a tour of the Louvre! Every museum and gallery should have a similar sort of online database.
Fun facts about The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Jose de Goya from Mr. Bruce Johnson:
Sinister creatures of the night torment the artist - presumably Goya himself - who lies slumped over his table, unable to work. Yet the real clue to Goya’s print lies in its subtitle: ‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts.’
The etching of the sleeping artist, threatened by fantastical faces, was originally intended to open the Caprichos series. Goya later decided to replace it with a self-portrait, the picture of a self-assured man dressed in a top and wearing a critical expression.
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I love that full title: “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts.”
Any takers on deciphering it?
Once a San Franciscan, always a San Franciscan…I love my city by the bay!
“After Ever After” by Jon Cozart. Thank you Shira for sharing. This is brilliant! How long until this kid is famous, though I’m not sure if he would have better success as a musician or a cultural/political commentator.
My latest InsideSeen blog looks to Barbara Barry for design inspiration. I had the pleasure of hearing her speak last week - a meditative experience - and was drawn to her artful approach to interior and product design.
Love this! Somehow, it seams about right to me…although the use of the word techno is so 1980s. But seriously, a gigantic mall downtown (right near the freeway); towering, curved skyscrapers, and a bigger freeway. However, there’s not enough traffic on the 110 - perhaps because of the multi-level freeway. Maybe we should have tried that on the 405.
L.A. 2013, according to Los Angeles Times, 1988
So close, LAT, so close.
