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November 2007
11/26/2007
The Art Of Lucien Walery
Lucien Walery
What a great portfolio this photographer must have had. He
photographed some of the
most beautiful women of all times, e.g., Josephine Baker and Mata Hari.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any more details about this dude except
the sparse information on Wikimedia.
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IWR Art Links For 11/26/2007
The World Of Satoshi
Yabuuchi
What wonderful and whimsical imagination this wood sculptor has. I
want one of these for Christmas!!!! Please read the artist's
own statement on the
concept of his work.
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Bookscans
Update
This site recently release 1700 new paperback book scans, and there are
some pretty funny ones in this lot.
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Mieko Minazumi Dolls
(Two and Half Years Later)
Mieko still makes the most beautiful dolls...
Doll (2006)
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Lost Fish (a Year Later)
Rusty has some new works and her old a definitely worth a second look.
These are excellent works of art.
Twins (2006)
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Jean-Lon
Grme (via
Femme)
and
Art
Renewal Center
I had blogged this neoclassical artist before in the pre-wiki days.
BTW, I realy love his Venus rising on a wave.
Venus Rising the Star
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Pulp Cambodia Novel Covers: Hul Sophon - NaBloPoMo
(Via
PCL)
Raceny Koktlok
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11/22/2007
Thanksgiving Day Postcards
Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a few postcards and links to get you in the
holiday spirit.
Mr. Pumpkin and Friends
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Indian Princess
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Thanksgiving Postcard Links:
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11/19/2007
IWR Art Links For 11/19/2007
The Art of Saira Wasim
[Bio 1975]
Saira Wasim is a contemporary Pakistani artist, who specializes in
political and cultural art. Her Silent Voices 1 painting below for
example is dedicated to the sexually abused baby girls in Pakistan, who
have no voice in that country (our so-called ally). One of
the great tragedies of this damn war in Iraq is that women had it better
under Saddam Hussein than they do with our so-called
'friends'.
I think I'll head over to Berkeley this week and check out Ms. Wasim's
One Way or
Another: Asian American Art Now Exhibit at BAM/PFA.
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New World Order (2006)
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Shadow 2 (2002) |
Silent Voices 1 (2002)
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Lauren
Bacall Photos [Bio
1924]
After I saw the the
Penny
Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall by Joseph Cornell, it reminded me of
what a beauty Lauren Bacall was in her day. Last week, I
watched her first movie that she starred in with her husband to be
Humphrey Bogart -
To
Have And Have Not. She was only 19!
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Lauren Bacall (1950)
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Lauren Bacall (1946)
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MONSTRULA
It's been a long time since I posted any monster posters. I've been
kind of keeping this German site to myself because I was using it to
create photo cartoons. There's a lot of great sci-fi posters, lobby
cards and paraphernalia on this site.
Teenagers From Outer Space
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Sai
Tamiya
I have blogged this artist before, but when I ran into her sight again, I
was really impressed with the painting below. The colors, textures
and patterns in this painting are quite remarkable.
Red Dress (2006)
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Sofia Chiostri
Postcards (Via
Tea Time)
These are cool.
Buona Pasqua (Happy Easter)
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Glamour Photography - Summer 1957
(Via Blort)
This is a full scan of the Summer 1957 magazine. It's pretty
cheesy, but still a little titillating at the same time.
Back Cover
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Walton Ford
He's a great illustrator.
Dying Words (2005)
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Higuchi Kae
(Via
Glubibulga)
I like these paintings, especially the one below.
Red Thread-B (2004)
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Andrzej Dragan
There are some interesting photos on this site.
Sztuka Miesa (2005)
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11/12/2007
The Art Of Suzuki Harunobu
Suzuki Harunobu [Bio
1724-1770]
More Info
This is an interesting set of woodblock prints from one of my favorite
Ukiyo-e artists. I love his delicate bijinga ("pictures of
beautiful women") figures, color
composition and selection of Japanese settings.
More Images
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The Art of Tamara De Lempicka
The Rose Tunic (1927)
Tamara de Lempicka [Bio
1898-1980]
Art Hub
(A Few Big Scans)
I have always liked the Polish Art Deco artist Tamara De Lempicka's
paintings, but I think over time and after looking at this large
collection of her artwork that she is becoming one of favorite artists in
the 20th century. Here's a selection of her paintings that I
enjoyed from the collection that I also haven't blogged before, e.g.,
The
Girl With Green Gloves. Also, here are a
few photos of the artist. Note: some of the images look better
if you just open the JPG file in it's own window.
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The Pink Shirt I Circa (1927)
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High Summer (1928)
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The Convalescent (1932)
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Portrait of Suzy Solidor (1933)
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Kizette (Tamara's
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11/05/2007
IWR Art Links For 11/05/2007
Uemura Shoen - (1875-1949) [Bio]
via
Tea Time
Uemura Shoen is one of my favorite Japanese artists of all time.
Uemura Shoen
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Anna
May Wong Cards
I don't know who was more beautiful during the silent era Anna May Wong
or Louise Brooks.
Anna May Wong
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Willy Pogany
I love the details, colors and tints in his illustrations.
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American Weekly, Rumpelstiltskin (1947)
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American Weekly, Temptaions of Ulysses: Sirens (1948)
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Zoltron
Zevil
The Resident
I (Heart)
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Decorated
and Decorative Paper Collection via
Scout
Vintage 19th c. marbled paper, Bouquet pattern
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Urgent Alchemy: The
Art of Claudia Drake via
Glubibulga
Mandy (2005)
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Karl Kwasny via
Malanda
Maple
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The Art of Joseph Cornell
Tilly Losch 1935
Joseph Cornel - Navigating the Imagination [Bio]
Archive 1 and
Archive 2
While on vacation, I decided to go to SFMOMA and check out the art
exhibits. One of those exhibits happened to be of Joseph Cornell's
artwork -
Navigating The Imagination. I was totally unfamiliar with
Cornell's remarkable collages and assemblages, so I decided to check them
out. The first work I looked at was his blue
Medici Princess (1952). I was totally unprepared for the
enchanting and almost hypnotic effect this Cornell work had on me.
I had a hard time moving to the next magic wooden box, but I was able to
eventually tear myself away from the Blue Princess and view the rest of
this grand exhibit, which took up nearly an entire floor of the museum!
I had many more delightful surprises in store to spark my senses and
especially my imagination. By the end of the exhibit, I was
converted into a Joseph Cornell fan, who I now consider one of my
favorite artists.
His boxes and collages seem to me would be very accessible to both adults
and children alike. In the back of my mind I was thinking: "Hey, I
could do this. I mean, I could create a wooden box. Put some
cutout images, marbles and sticks in it, and presto-chango, I got a work
of art!" But when you see works like the Great Horned Owl (below)
or Tilly Losch (above), by then you're thinking: "There's no way in hell
I could do anything this damn good or original. This guy was a
genius!"
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Untitled (Great Horned Owl With Full Moon) 1942
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According to
Adam Gopnik, Cornell was influenced by the collages of Surrealist
Max Ernst, but more
importantly by the Cubist painter
Juan Gris and Cubist
poet
Guillaume Apollinaire. Cornell's style including his use of
repetitive pictures like in the Medici Princess (above) also influenced
Pop artist Andy Warhol.
Some of the other highlights in the exhibit were films by Joseph Cornell,
he is one I found on the Internet
Rose Hobart 1936.
Also, there was newspaper that Cornell sent to his relatives during the
Depression called Goop Joe's Poultry Pages. Some of the articles,
which he typed with a Smith Corona were a hoot, especially the story on
Page 19
- Duck Hunter Falls Out of Boat; Drowns. I was cracking when I
read it, and then I saw a young girl read the same article and she
cracked up too. I think Cornell would be pleased to know that his
humor is still relevant today especially to his potential fees, filles or
faeries as he called young women that caught his eye in New York City.
In conclusion, if you're in the Bay Area or if this traveling exhibition
shows up in your neck of the woods, I strongly recommend that you go and
see it!
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Untitled (Marine
Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)
early 1940s |
Untitled (Penny
Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall)
1945-46 |
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Untitled (Celestial
Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova)
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Recent Articles on Joseph Cornell:
Sparkings: Joseph Cornell and the art of nostalgia.
Putting the World in a Box: Joseph Cornell's Inside Stories
Joseph Cornell: thinking inside a box
Joseph Cornell's cabinets of wonder at SFMOMA
Little
boxes, big impact
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