Roy Lichtenstein + Mark Rothko

I missed a day last week, so I am combining two artists into one post.

Roy Lichtenstein

Mark Rothko

"I am not an abstract painter. I am not interested in the relationship between form and color. The only thing I care about is the expression of man's basic emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, destiny."

Maggie Taylor

A dramatic change of pace regarding the artists, one of my next artists to focus on will be Maggie Taylor.

Her work reminds me of a mixture between fairytales and dreams - which in some ways can be the same thing. The fantastic and unusual blended with imaginary things.

clothing as art: part 2

over the next month or so, Anushka and I are going to be having a secret 'challenge' of sorts. to introduce this, over the next few days I will be writing a little bit on a few artists which are involved in this secret project.

first off, one of my recently discovered favorites: Edward Hopper. I had never heard of him, though I had seen one or two of his paintings. the Smithsonian magazine had a very interesting article on his work -- I will include a few excerpts from it as well as photos of Hopper's work.

-Rooms by the Sea

"Painting did not come easily to Edward Hopper. Each canvas represented a long, morose gestation spent in solitary thought. There were no sweeping brushstrokes from a fevered hand, no electrifying eurekas. He considered, discarded and pared down ideas for months before he even squeezed one drop of paint onto his palette."


""Hopper simply happens to be a bad painter. But if he were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist.""
-Clement Greenberg


"Hopper's 'equivocal human figures engaged in uncertain relationships mark his paintings as modern' as strongly as his gas pumps and telephone poles."

lovelies, no time or energy to post the clothing as art sequel right now. to hold you over until the next 'installment' here are a few links that will be related in some way to my next post:

International Dress-up Day
Style Bubble
Neet Magazine

clothing as art #1

as you may have noticed, my posting has been far less often than Anushka's -- for which i apologize. summer is finally beginning though, so i hope that i can spend more time updating this blog.

on to the post. if you have ever read my other blog, than you may have noticed than i have a deep fascination with clothing. i love making it, looking at it, but most of all wearing it. there is so much that can be expressed with one simple outfit. but finding inspiration for a different outfit every day can be frustrating. to help myself with this, i created a 'look book' of sorts. it is just a simple blank paged notebook in which i glue pictures, write out ideas, and sometimes make mini models of projects i would like to make. doing this has actually helped quite a bit.


each section is a certain look. they are all seperate pictures, but each page has a theme of sorts. depending on my mood, i pick a different page and then make an outfit from that pieces that most inspire me at the moment.


i only recently started the book, so it is a little bit sparse right now. as i make progress i will post pictures, as well as some of the outfits or inspirations that have come out of it.

here are some of my favorite places to find fashion inspiration pictures:
hel-looks (certainly my favorite)
CPH
Fashionist
wardrobe_remix (another favorite)
Face Hunter

more on this topic next post.

without gravity

it rained, and she begged me to jump on the trampoline with her...

...jumping up and down that high with a laughing 5 year old, makes life seem to simple...

...life without gravity.

i prefer to use film when taking pictures.
it requires more time and effort, but the little mistakes and blurs are what make the picture unique.
in a world where everything is automatic and instant, using film requires one to focus on the work they are trying to create--on the scene they are trying to capture.