23 Tuesday Aug 2011
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©Joan Currie
All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind. – Bob Ross
I am fascinated by the beautiful shapes and colors in this section of a strand of beads from West Africa.
12 Friday Aug 2011
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© Joan Currie
And what is my true nature?… Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create. – Anaïs Nin
I love the sensual biomorphic lines of the vessels in the foreground.
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31 Sunday Jul 2011
Posted in Art, Garden, Photography, Reflections
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© Joan Currie
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. – Vincent van Gogh
I turned away from the shore and discovered another kind of beauty in the riot of flowers bounded by a weathered fence.
15 Friday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. – Dakota Indian saying
By nightfall, this driftwood tepe will be aflame.
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10 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
by Lord Byron
I wonder what this child is thinking as she looks out on this vast sea…
03 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. – Anaïs Nin
As I walked along the sidewalk today, I was captivated by the peculiar patterns of flattened dark globs of chewing gum embedded in the pavement. Continuing along my route, I started noticing black dots everywhere!
London artist, Ben Wilson, embellishes such discarded gum with colorful images.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
13 Monday Jun 2011
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Aaron Mann, Anya Zuyeva, Beauty, Lauren DiMarco, Photo Shoot, Photography, postaweek 2011, Rummy Makmur, Video
© Rummy Makmur
An artist is the sum of his own risks.- Zowie Broach & Brian Kirby
The trend in high fashion photography is to capture a video of the shoot and turn it into a short film – especially if the shoot has a fantasy theme. Here is a beautiful example directed by Rummy Makmur and Anya Zuyeva:
Models – Lauren DiMarco & Aaron Mann
Designer/Stylist – Anya Zuyeva
Hair – Lana Orca
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© Miri Ekshtein
02 Thursday Jun 2011
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America's Top Model, Art, Degas, Hopper, Israels, Khrystyana Kazakova, Matisse, Miller, Photography, postaweek 2011, Reclining Nudes, Renoir
© Khrystynana Kazakova
…the artist is he who can take a piece of flint and wring out of it drops of attar of roses. – Walter Sickert
In celebration of the beautiful feminine form, here are my favorite reclining nude paintings – most of them by the Impressionists:
1. Reclining Nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
2. Reclining Nude by Richard Edward Miller
3. Reclining Nude by Richard Edward Miller
4. Reclining Nude by Isaac Israels
5. Autumn by Frederick Carl Frieseke
6. Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude) by Henri Matisse
7. Reclining Nude by Jean Frédéric Bazille
8. Olympia by Edouard Manet
9. After the Bath or Reclining Nude by Edgar Degas
10. Reclining Nude by Edward Hopper
11. Reclining Nude by Douglas Hofmann
12. The Reclining Shepherdess by Berthe Morisot
13. Reclining Nude by Giovanni Boldini
14. Reclining Nude with Mirror by Delphin Enjolras
15. Reclining Nude by István Szőnyi
16. Reclining Woman Magenta Green and Orange by Beverly Brown
17. Reclining Nude by Amedeo Modigliani
18. Nude with Hands behind Head by Amedeo Modigliani
19. Nude by Salvador Dali
20. Mornington Crescent Nude by Walter Sickert
31 Tuesday May 2011
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Art, Brooker, Corot, Enjoiras, Fashion, Fragonard, Monet, Orpen, Perugini, Photography, postaweek 2011, Renoir, Sargent, Ukushu Khrystyna, van Gogh, Women reading
© Ukushu Khrystyna
Pierre-Auguste Renoir loved to paint women and girls engaged in everyday activities, especially reading. Below are beautiful paintings of women and girls reading:
1. Woman Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
2. Reading Woman by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
3. Two Young Girls Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
4. Young Woman Reading By A Window by Delphin Enjolras
5. A Favorite Book by Delphin Enjolras
6. A Woman Reading by Claude Monet
7. The Novel Reader by Vincent van Gogh
8. Reading Lesson by Auguste Toulmouche
9. Girl Reading or in the Orangery by Charles Perugini
10. Girl reading by Franz Eybi
11. American Girl Reading by George Cochran Lambdin
12. A Young Woman Reading by Jean-Honore Fragonard
13. Woman Reading in a Landscape by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
14. Woman Reading by David Park
15. The Window Seat by Sir William Orpen
16. Grace Reading at Howth Bay by Sir William Orpen
17. The Treasured Volume by Harry Brooker
18. Compagnie by Escha Van den bogerd
19. Reading (The Artist’s Sister) by Berthe Morisot
20. Simplon Pass: Reading by Singer Sargent
21. The Little Convalescent by Eastman Johnson
22. Fire Opal by Laura Coombs Hills
23. Reading on the Rocks by John George Brown
Model: Ukushu Khrystyna
29 Sunday May 2011
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America's Top Model, Art, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Photography, postaweek 2011, Women wearing red dresses in paintings
© Khrystyana Kazakova
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Henri Matisse
I was surprised how few of my favorite artists painted portraits of women wearing red dresses. Here are some beautiful ones I found:
1. Lady in Red by Murat Kaboulov
2. La Femme en Rouge by Giovanni Boldini
3. The Lady in Red by Giovanni Boldini
4. Madame Juillard in Red by Giovanni Boldini
5. Mrs. Charles E. Inches (nee Louise Pomeroy) by John Singer Sargent
6. Portrait of a Lady in Red by Sandro Botticelli
7. Woman in Red by Jacqui Faye
8. Portrait of a Woman in Red Dress by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz
9. Portrait of a Lady in Red by Jacopo Pontormo
10. Study of a Woman in Red by Jean-Jacques Henner
11. The Small Cowper Madonna by Raphael Sanzio
12. Helnwein Child by Raphael Sanzio
13. Portrait of a Woman in a Red Dress – Pierre Auguste Renoir
Model: Khrystyana Kazakova
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