Handcut Paper
Annie Vought a développé ces oeuvres pour sa collection basée sur des correspondances manuscrites. L’artiste a cherché à reconsidérer les textes comme un échange ayant plus de valeurs que celui des formes digitales. Un rendu splendide de cette artiste vivant en Californie, à découvrir dans la suite.
Well Timed Photographs
Photography Photographs taken at exactly the right moment.
[Fashion Photograph for Lord and Taylor]
This photograph by George Platt Lynes features a dress by Madame Grès, who was known earlier as Alix. The model raises a chiffon stole in a pose like that of a maenad, a votary of Dionysos. The classical converges with the surreal in the setting, an Yves Tanguy-like landscape with an attenuated and faintly distorted figure. The dramatic highlighting and moody silhouette give the dress the look of a sculptural relief. Like many of the draped silk-jersey gowns with which Grès is identified, this evening gown substantiates the designer's classicizing intentions and antique sources.
The real life models for Classic Pin-Up paintings
A series of comparisons between the classic pinup girls and photos that have served as models for achieving them;) via
The Art of Paul Kuczynski - mashKULTURE
Take a look at some paintings by artist, Paul Kuczynski. More after the jump.
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Postmodernism and the Difference Between Art and Garbage at Toronto's Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night art festival that transforms Toronto from a city where not much happens after two in the morning into a city where all sorts of things happen after two in the morning. Parking garages become art galleries, buildings become surfaces for projectors, and people who are normally at home sober are out on the streets getting wasted and filling themselves with street vendor hot dogs. We sent our intern Sam out to ask a bunch of people about postmodernism, and our other intern Brad to jot down to the important differences between garbage on the street and officially sanctioned festival art. My old roommate told me that last year, she was looking at a broken, abandoned bike left in the street and a drunk guy next to her said, “Is this an art?” We’re going to start off with a traditional example: framed artwork hanging up somewhere. Winner: Photo on a tree. Someone told me that the smashed car was part of a project curated by Douglas Coupland. Winner: MDMA.
photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Albert Camus, Paris, 1944. Coney Island, New York, 1946. Romania, 1975. Naples, Italy, 1960. A football game, Michigan vs. At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966. Uzbekistan, 1954. Visitors from kolkhozy to the eleventh-century Alaverdi monastery, 1972. Improvised canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol, 1954. The Arbat, Moscow, 1972. Chelny, Russia, 1973. Boston, 1947. New York, 1935. An African-American student is denied entry to a theater. Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, 1960. Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris, 1946. Dessau, Germany, April, 1945. Nehru Announces Gandhi's Death, Birla House, Delhi, 1948. World's Fair, Brussels, 1958. Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, 1946. New York, 1960. Bankers Trust, New York, 1960. Near Strasbourg, France, 1944. The arrival of a boat carrying refugees from Europe reunites a mother and son who had been separated throughout the war, 1946. Communist students demonstrate against the black market. McCann-Erickson Agency, Madison Avenue, New York, 1959. New York, 1947.
25 Incredibly Detailed Black And White Portraits of the Homeless by Lee Jeffries
Lee Jeffries career began as a sports photographer, capturing the beautiful game of football in Manchester. Then a chance meeting with a homeless woman living in the streets of London changed his life forever. He has since dedicated himself to capturing gripping portraits of the disenfranchised. Shooting exclusively in black and white, Lee Jeffries’ 135+ pictures can be viewed in his Flickr Photostream. Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in the United States: «Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait.»
Shattered Glass Installation by Baptiste Debombourg
Using sheets of shattered laminate glass, French artist Baptiste Debombourg created a technically brilliant site-specific installation, called 'Aerial' at Brauweiler Abbey in Germany. The work creates the illusion of water rushing in through the window and being frozen in a timeless fashion. via Colossal images © Baptiste Debombourg
