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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Diors 1982

This is an advertisement from VOGUE , March 1982-- a controversial DIOR spread featuring characters called " "THE DIORS." They were named the Mouth ( model Kelly Le Brock), the Wizard (director/actor Andre Gregory (MY DINNER WITH ANDRE ) ) and Oliver (Vincent Vallarino). Note the Blaise Pascal allusion in the last copy blurb....

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Some Illustrations

Just unearthed some old illustrations of mine..I did them from in 2009-2010 thought I'd post.

Just som

Saturday, February 4, 2012

More American Beauty : Candice Bergen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen

American Actress.

Another " Girl Next Door" Her Bio on the Wiki link above

Thursday, January 26, 2012

American Art

I thought today may be a good day to look at American Art. With no rhyme or reason, I picked a few of my favorite artists and decided to share. I think these works are among the most poignant pieces of art our country has produced. Eakins, Hopper, Nevelson, Ryman -- just some of my faves, and of course master art teacher- Robert Henri.

These ( above) are by Thomas Eakins.

After Eakins, above, are by Edward Hopper.

Some Nevelson pieces (above).

A white painting by Robert Ryman.

And of course, a figure by Robert Henri, who was a master teacher and who wrote the very inspirational book " The Art Spirit"

Monday, January 23, 2012

Faces and Film

Much has been written about the face of Greta Garbo. Indeed, quite a monument for beauty. my students were commenting on her "architectural face" and how lovely it was few days ago. I teach EVOLUTION OF FASHION, a history course of clothing ranging from Mesopotamia to present day. I teach mostly through film. Although the art form of film in itself is beautiful, our concern in this class is the costume design. This week, we watched THE WOMEN starring Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. There seems to be a dislike for Crawford's "hard" look, and a feeling that it detracts from the gorgeous clothes by Gilbert Adrian made for this classic movie. ADRIAN, as was called, outfitted Crawford through most of his career. At any rate , I found some photos of Miss Crawdord taken before she was "mommy dearest" ----- before she had the menacing brows.....taken before her lupine madness emerged.... She was, however, an AMERICAN beauty and a consummate actor. I try to focus on American Style right now in order to show my students that as Americans we have the talent and skill to create and be and do and imagine all that is authentic, original, rewarding, and fulfilling..... ; )