Favlook – Lookfav Focus: sumptuous dress for everyday, for everyone

28 Sunday Feb 2016

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Dress to impress

in all finery: clothed in opulent fabric

is a multi-sensory sensation

at one point in time, only to be experienced by those of the ruling classes

and reserved for special/important occasions.

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Throughout history,

various societies have enacted sumptuary laws

which were regulations designed to control what people wore

and in some instances what they did-

in terms of demonstration of wealth.

These laws kept ‘fashion and dress in check’ ,

as means to identify an individual’s socio-economic station

by clothing worn.

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During the medieval era in Europe,

sumptuary codes prevented any attempt of elevation in status through dress.

The nobility projected their rank by ostentatious attire worn and

prohibited the rising middle class

from dressing above an imposed societal station.

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Conspicuous consumption was controlled by law

which allowed only a set few to wear luxury items.

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Luxury-wear on parade

15th C

Mois de mai

(month of May)

a page from the illuminated book of hours (prayer book),

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

painted by famed Dutch miniaturist, the Limbourg brothers, circa 1412 – 1416

for their patron the French prince John, Duke de Berry

medieval dress, Frères_Limbourg_-_Très_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_-_mois_de_mai, wikimedia_

(image from wikimedia.org)

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Today dressing in extravagant clothing of

exquisite fabrication

jewel colours

intricate workmanship

elaborate details

is a daily event of being robed in attire fit for royalty

or seemingly so-

how wonderfully ‘sumptuous’ is that?

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Lux-wear on parade

21st C

everyday, everyone

(images from whowhatwear)

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(image from manofmany.com)

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(image from jaiperdumaveste.com)

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Mark your diary ! : Tate Modern presents the exhibition- “The World Goes Pop”, pop art expression in global context

06 Tuesday Oct 2015

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The dawn of the pop art movement-

during the post-war era, 1950’s – 1960’s

was a direct assault on

the established “status quo” of art styles and interpretive.

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The term “pop art”

coined in 1955 by British art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway

was introduced to describe visuals of subject matter,

which were characterised by

images of the mundane, the normal, the everyday: a “low art”

in direct contrast to those images long considered “high art” of

lofty, aspirational, inspirational topics.

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Pop art is a re-interpretive expression, querying:

what is art?, what is its function?, who is it for?

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Pop art’s colourful pictorials depicted objects

symbolic of a heightened consumerism of post-war society .

The iconography of pop art stemmed from

adverts, photos of celebrities, comic strips, everyday consumer items.

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This was an art style of which

the viewing masses could readily identify and thus appreciate.

This was art for all, not just a chosen few.

The pop art movement was an equalising force of sorts within the art world.

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Pop art of the mid twentieth century continued

in the vein of the Dada art movement, which commenced

in the early twentieth century (immediately post WW I).

Dadaism, as championed by the likes of

French-American conceptual artist, Marcel Duchamp-

characterised art as a forum for articulation of ideas,

over emphasis on beauty of imagery portrayed.

It is said that when Duchamp gave up painting, he stated:

“I was interested in ideas—not merely in visual products.”

(quote from moma.org)

Duchamp interest was of “the readymades”:

a recycling of utilitarian, readily available objects

and the creating for mass production-

things new with these random items.

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by Marcel Duchamp

“The readymades”

Fountain (1917)

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Bottle rack (1914)

(image from artic.edu):

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Bicycle wheel

(image from moma.org):

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As extension of Dadaism specifically and conceptual art generally

pop art flourished as an expression which sought to

re-define the meaning of art.

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Initially prominent in the United States,

the pop art movement quickly spread to Britain

and is widely regarded as essentially

an Anglo-American artistic form.

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Due to its familiar and accessible images,

the popularity of pop art continues ever strong.

There have been many shows

hosted at venues around the world

on this unique post-modernist movement

Hence, the public is particularly knowledgeable of

iconic works produced by such famed pop artists as

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, among others.

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by Andy Warhol

common everyday products

celebrity circle

(image from moma.org):

Campbell Soup

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(image from en.cafa.com.cn):

Brillo Box

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Banana

(image from pitchfork.com):

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John Lenon

(image from fanpop.com):

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by Roy Lichtenstein

comic strip mania

food stuff

(image from artwallpaper.eu):

Varoom

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Mickey and Donald

(image from dailymail uk):

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Cherry pie

(image from christies.com):

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Standing rib

(image from wikiart):

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The exhibition The World Goes Pop

now at the Tate Modern, on the Southbank (London)-

explores the history, expression, impact of the pop art movement

from a global perspective.

The show is part of focused examination of pop art as

a world wide art phenomenon-

spreading beyond the borders of a

boisterous, youth-driven, counter-establishment,

Western consumerism, Anglo-American art form

highlighting images of popular culture.

This exhibition gives voice to the international chorus of

the pop art movement.

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Pop art world wide resonance

Les Rouges Hommes

by French artist, Henri Cueco

(image from wsimag.com):

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Red coat (1973)

by French born / NYC based, Nicola L.

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Doll Festival (1966)

by Japanese, neo-dadist artist, Ushio Shinohara

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Included in the exhibition are over 160 works from around the world:

the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Asia.

These pieces are representative of the impact of the pop art movement

as a global creative platform for commentary on political concerns,

societal ills, public outcry.

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The World Goes Pop

until 24 January 2016

Tate Modern, London

For further information, visit:

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ey-exhibition-world-goes-pop?gclid=CJ-grYCYrsgCFUGx2wodoFEEbg

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Mark your diary! : a glimpse in- “Goya, the Portraits” an exhibition at the National Gallery, London

21 Monday Sep 2015

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Celebrated Spanish artist,

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)

lauded as one of the last of the “old masters”-

is the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the

National Gallery, London.

Goya was a painter of immense talent-

provocative, emotive, controversial, influential.

His career spanned decades

his work encompassed varying genres

and his talent acquainted him with leading individuals of the time.

Appointed court painter to Spanish monarchs

King Charles III and King Charles IV;

he was later commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte after his brutal overthrow

of the Spanish monarchy.

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Goya produced exquisite paintings

of court / important personages;

of the artrocities / aftermath of war and conflict;

of images of everyday life and ordinary circumstances

and the eerie / unsettling “black paintings” of his later years,

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The Second of May, 1808

(1814)

Depicts the uprising of the citizens of Madrid against their French occupiers

(image from theguardian.com)

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The Third of May 1808

(1814)

The execution of Madrileños (natives of Madrid) by firing squad

of Napolean’s army

(image from dukemagazine-duke.edu)

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Picnic on the Banks of the Manzanares

(image from npr.org)

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Saturn Devouring his Son

(1819 – 1823)

One of the fourteen “black paintings” of Goya’s last years

first painted on the walls of his home, transfered to canvas after his death

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Highlighted for the new show at the National Gallery

are his portraits, chronicling from his earliest commissions onward;

serveral of which will be on display for the first time in London.

Goya’s talent as a portraitist is undenied.

He is expert at capturing expression, posturing

which offers a glimpse into the character / personality

of the sitter.

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Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga

(image from scanopia.com)

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Family of King Charles IV of Spain

(1800 / 1801)

(image from all art)

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Maria Luisa de Parma

Queen consort of Charles IV of Spain

(1789)

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

(1812 – 1814)

Painted during Wellington’s service during the Peninsular Wars against Napolean

(image from museumsyndicate.com)

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The actress Dona Antonia Zarate

(1805 – 1806)

(image from franciscogoya.com)

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Prince Von Václav Kaunits-Ritberga

(1815 – 1817)

(image from artinvestment.ru)

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Mariana Waldstein, Ninth Marquesa de Santa Cruz

(1792)

(image from ibiblio.org)

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Goya, The Portraits

The National Gallery, London

7 October 2015 – 10 January 2016

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For further details, visit

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/goya-portraits

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A pink colour story for autumn / winter 2015

18 Tuesday Aug 2015

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In the pink

Beauty, sensitivity, romance, gentleness, delicacy-

are but a few words in the contemporary lexicon

ascribable to the colour pink.

Yet, there there are a few variants to the

“pink colour word history”.

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Reference to a colour pink is traceable to ancient times

and certainly pink as a vibrant pigment colour,

(a blending of red and white)

was much used in religious painting

during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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Consider the use of pink pigment on manuscript leaves from

by famed 15th century Dutch minaturist painters

The Limbourg Bothers –

Adoration of the Magi

from Belles Heures du Jean Duc de Berry

In the pink:

focal Magi’s garment

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St. Catherine Bound to Column

from Belles Heures du Jean Duc de Berry (1408)

In the pink:

God’s shirt, on-lookers cap, executioner’s cloak

(images from acro-iris.com and oberlin.edu)

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By the late 17th century, “pink” as a colour word

was utilised in the English language.

It’s derivation stems from

the name of the Dutch flower “pinken”.

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Yet, it is the strong gender alignment of the colour,

which is of particular interest.

Originally in European culture

pink was more regarded as a masculine colour

due to its hue relationship with the “murderous” colour red.

Whereas blue was thought of as a colour more relatable to women as

it is the traditional colour worn by the Virgin Mary in artworks of her “likeness”.

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By the mid 20th century, the colour gender alignment

had shifted with pink most strongly identified with women and

blue most connected with men.

The evolution of pink as colour statement continues.

Today it seems more a colour of gender neutrality.

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Pink is also a colour charged by political affiliation.

It has come to be widely used as word reference to

leftist / communist leanings.

In current vernacular, Latin American countries with

leftist political heads of state are known as the “Pink Tide” nations.

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An emotive colour with a fascinating history trail

pink is set to be an impact colour for autumn / winter 2015.

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In the pink

and

gender- neutral

a / w 2015

For the Gents:

Comme des Garçons by Rei Kawakubo

graphic twirls – fantastic

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by designer, Astrid Andersen

hard / soft

a beret / a bit of lace over-lay

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Good ‘n Plenty

A pink and black colour mix

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by desinger, Walter Van Beirendonck

In blush pink

For when a jacket is required

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from Casely-Hayford

by father and son design duo, Joe and Charlie Casely-Hayford

In bright fushcia

overcoat

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For the ladies:

by designer, Junya Watanabe

orgami sculptural in raspberry pink

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from Topshop Unique

In champagne pink

dress: shoulders bared, form fit

runched material, thin black band, mini

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by designer, Catriona Mcauley

In amaranth pink

front draping

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from Custo Barcelona

In varying shades of pink and lavender purple

dress: knit, patchwork design, mini

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from Balmain

by designer, Olivier Rousteing

In persian rose pink

palazzo trousers: pleats / flowing

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from A.W.A.K.E.

by designer, Natalia Alaverdian

light coral pink overcoat

wide lapel , wide sleeves with side slits

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Graduate Collection

from Central Saint Martins College

by designer Samuel Guidong Yang

In rose pink

asymmetrical booting

to the knee / at the ankle

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Mark your diary! : the exhibition, ‘Inventing Impressionism’ opens at The National Gallery, London

16 Monday Mar 2015

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Impressionism is today, a widely recognised and celebrated art movement.

Developed in late 19th century France by then avant garde artists, including:

Claude Monet, Auguste Renior, Edouard Manet,

Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley-

impressionism depicts images of everyday life, of landscape, of the familiar.

It is this characteristic of ready accessibility which has proven

key to its lasting popular appeal.

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(images from timeout magazine):

The Galettes (1882)

by Claude Monet

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The impressionists often completed their paintings

“en plein air” (in the open air),

capturing an effect of natural light and colour

with bold brushwork of rapid, visible, paint application.

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The Bridge at Villenueve-La-Garenne (1872)

by Alfred Sisley

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These features of subjects of the mundane, of textural paint techniques

and of study and painting achieved outdoors,

were considered quite revolutionary and harshly critiqued.

At the inception of the impressionist movement

the established art world was hardly impressed.

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Yet one man, French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel

championed these novel artists.

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(image from timeout magazine):

Portrait of Paul Durand-Ruel (1910)

by Pierre- Auguste Renior

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An astute entrepreneur, M. Durand-Ruel

was unwavering in his support,

which eventually yielded success.

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(image from aacv.fr):

M. Durand-Ruel

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Utilising his galleries in Paris, New York and Brussels

and other venues worldwide-

M. Durand-Ruel organised numerous exhibitions

to showcase the works of his artists.

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Even during bouts of personal financial difficulties,

M. Durand-Ruel routinely provided his artists with monetary assistance.

Amassing quite a collection of their works,

he was a staunch believer of the impressionist interpretive.

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The National Gallery, London presently hosts the exhibition

Inventing Impressionism.

The show is a nod to the M. Durand-Ruel’s

steadfast belief in the eventual value of impressionist paintings

as both artistic merit and monetary worth.

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The exhibition brings together over 85 impressionist paintings

which were once part of the Durand-Ruel extensive inventory

and are now held in private hands or museum collections.

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(image from the guardian.co.uk):

Poplars in the Sun (1891)

by Claude Monet

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(images from timeout magazine):

The Thames Below Westminster (1871)

by Claude Monet

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Foxhill, Upper Norwood (1870)

by Camille Pissarro

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Music in the Tuileries Gardens (1862)

by Edouard Manet

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(image from the guardian.com):

Boy with a Sword (1861)

Edouard Manet

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(image from timeout magazine):

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Woman at her Toilette (1875 -1880)

by Berthe Morisot

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(image from artfund.org):

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Horses Before the Stand (1866 – ’68)

by Edgar Degas

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(image from timeout magazine):

The Ballet Class (1880)

by Edgar Degas

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Inventing Impressionism is a show, which offers additional opportunity

to view beautiful paintings by truly masterful painters-

a sentiment M. Durand-Ruel always believed of his artists and their works.

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Inventing Impressionism

at The National Gallery, London

until 31 May 2015

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For additional details, visit:

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/tickets/inventing_impressionism/p_impressionism_ticket

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Paperworks: meet British collagist, Peter Clark

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Old Pieces of Paper

What do they have in common:

old photographs, maps, stamps, charts, postcards,

newspaper clippings, magazine pages, sheet music-

all acquired from second hand shops and antique fairs ?

They all are types of vintage paper,

which are rich material source for the art pieces

created by famed British collagist-

Peter Clark.

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(image from rhgallery.co.uk):

Collage artist, Peter Clark

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Greatly admired by fashion designer, Sir Paul Smith-

Mr. Clark creates three dimensional, sculptural works of

fun, colour and whimsy.

Known for his imaginative dog collages,

Mr. Clark also constructs fanciful fashion paper pieces.

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(image from smeagoldandnash.com):

King Charles Cavalier Spaniel

paper collage by Peter Clark

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(image from mymodernmet.com):

Dachshund

paper collage by Peter Clark

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(image from peterclarkcollage.com):

Biker jacket

paper collage by Peter Clark

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The Paper Trail

A twentieth century artistic expression,

the collage movement started in 1912.

It was an art innovation of Cubists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

Collage art began as a reaction against the established salon art.

It was a modern interpretive of identifiable objects,

constructed from bits and pieces of paper-types and card.

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Paper, String, Card

(image from uchicago.edu):

Still Life With Chair Caning , 1912

by Pablo Picasso

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(image from moma.org):

Guitar Collage , 1913

by Pablo Picasso

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(image from utoronto.ca):

Still Life On A Chair , 1914

by Georges Braque

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(image from christies.com):

Bouteille et Instruments de Musique , 1918

(Bottle and Musical Instruments)

by Georges Braque

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A form of abstract art:

subject as representational rather than realistic-

collage pieces are composed from

cardboard, paper, newspaper clippings, magazine leaves

and other forms of ephemera.

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In using paper with text, such as newspaper, magazines, postcards-

there is an added element of communication and connectivity

between artist and viewer.

Collage art can then be of visual interest and on close examination-

an informative of historical and/or current news..

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The works by Patrick Clark are executed in the tradition of collage art.

Like the masters before him: Picasso and Braque-

Mr. Clark also uses newspaper cutouts, card and paper.

In addition, he constructs with colourful and textural papers:

postage stamps, maps, sheet music, postcards –

which adds vibrancy and depth to creating readily recognisable images.

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Paper Fashion

by collagist, Peter Clark

(image from social register.co.uk):

“Love Graphic Line Dress”

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(image from trendland.com):

Map / grid jacket

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(image from rebeccahossack.com):

“Coat of Many Spots”

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“Stripes R A Must”

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“Saks Dress”

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(image from popglass.com):

Tu Tu dress

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(image from bathbusiness.net):

“White Collar Worker”

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(image from rhgallery.co.uk):

Cowboy boots with spurs

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For further information on Peter Clark and his collage art series, visit:

http://www.peterclarkcollage.com

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Mark your diary! : Rubens (Peter Paul) at the RAA (Royal Academy of Art, London)

04 Thursday Dec 2014

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Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 -1640

was a Flemish painter of the Baroque era;

a period of artistic expression, in which paintings

were emotive, dramatic, passionate, sensual.

Rubens’ collective oeuvre is exemplar supreme

of the sentiment of Baroque style.

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(image from britishmuseum.org):

Peter Paul Rubens

self portrait

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Known for his voluptuous ‘Ruben-esque’ female nudes,

Rubens also created paintings of landscapes, portraiture

and religious/mythological themes.

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(images from allartclassic.com):

‘Venus at a Mirror’, 1615

a Ruben-esque female

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‘Paysage avec Philemon et Baucis,’ 1625

intense, dynamic landscape

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Marquise Brigida Spinola Doria, 1606

portrait study

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Christ after the Punishment, 1620

religious subject

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Perseus and Andromeda, 1620/21

mythological theme

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Rubens’ artistic flair greatly influenced his contemporaries.

One of his students, famed Flemish portraitist

Anthony Van Dyck, became court painter to

the English monarch Charles I.

Further, his significance is reflected in the works

of later artists such as landscape painter John Constable (18th C.)

and cubist artist Pablo Picasso (20th C.).

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Rubens Legacy

(image from metmuseum.com):

‘Study of a head

Anthony Van Dyck

rich colours, emotive, expressive

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Contour painting by Pablo Picasso

study of the female form

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In celebration of the genius of Peter Paul Rubens

the Royal Academy of Arts, London will present

Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne

an exhibition, which explores Rubens’ paintings

“through the lens of six themes:

power, lust, compassion, elegance, poetry and violence.”

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Rubens and His Legacy:

Van Dyck to Cézanne

Royal Academy of Arts, London

24 January 2015 — 10 April 2015

For further information, visit

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/rubens-and-his-legacy

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Mark your diary! : ‘an arched brow, a tilted head, a faint smile’ … The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition on the Renaissance portraitist, Giovanni Battista Moroni

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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Giovanni Battista Moroni, is considered by some (myself included!)

to be one of the greatest portrait painters of the Late Renaissance.

Born in Albino near Bergamo, Italy in 1520

Moroni would later train under the tutelage of religious painter

Alessandro Bonvicino, known as “Il Moretto”.

However, it is not for his religious paintings for which Moroni is famed,

but for his penetrating, evocative and emotive portraits.

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(images from the bbc.com):

Portrait of a Young Man with an Inscription, 1560

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L’Avvocato (The Lawyer)

Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter, 1570

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Moroni was masterful at capturing, the unique physical traits of each sitter,

adding further to depicting qualities of individuality in

postures which were natural, genuine, believable.

Enveloped in accomplishing this portrayal of corporeal realism is an added

dimension of psychological factor: a communicative element

conveyed through the sitter’s demeanor.

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(image from hyperallergic.com):

Portrait of a Twenty-nine Year Old Man, 1567

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Moroni is genius at presenting this ‘glimpse’ into presumed thought.

It is the subtlety of enigmatic expressions,

which captivates and invites the viewer to consider

what the sitter may have been thinking

accentuated by: a steady gaze, a raised brow,

a mouth’s curve and contours, a head’s side tilt.

Herein lies the beauty of Moroni’s work, his ability to present portraits

which are of simple composition, yet of complexity for contemplation.

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(images from bbc.com):

Portrait of a Man with Raised Eyebrows, 1570

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(images from wga.hu):

The Black Knight, 1567

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Though his portraits are readily recognisable,

Moroni did not have a specific style per se.

Rather than establishing a signature elemental to every painting,

his intent seemed focused on capturing a true essence of each sitter.

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Portrait of a Gentleman, 1560

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(image from hyperallergic.com):

Portrait of Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova, 1556

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Portrait of the writer, Giovanni Bressani, 1562

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He worked mostly in tones of black, grey, browns.

Yet, he was a wonderful colourist,

possessing an appreciative eye for the impact of colour.

It is said that the great artist Titian,

himself renowned as an extraordinary master of colour,

commended Moroni’s work. This was great praise indeed .

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La Dama In Rosso, 1556 – 1560

Portrait of a Lady

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(image from artnet.com):

Portrait of a Gentleman, 1565

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(images from hyperallergic.com):

Portrait of a Little Girl from the Redetti Family, 1570

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(image from wga.hu):

Gentleman in Pink, 1560

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Most of Moroni’s portraits were of the petty aristocracy and

members of the bourgeoisie families of Bergamo, whom he

presented in dignified manner.

The paintings also give a rich insight into the fashion of the period:

black as high-status colour, textural material/cloth,

white ruff collars/sleeves, jewel colours, furs and pearls.

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Bartolommeo Bonghi, 1553

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(image from wga.hu):

Portrait of Antonio Navagero, 1565

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The Tailor (Il Tagliapanni)

is the artist’s most celebrated work.

The painting is regarded as the earliest portrait of

an artisan at his labours. The tailor with instruments of his trade:

a pair of scissors in one hand and a portion of material in the other,

looks out with self- assurance at the viewer.

He exudes a confidence of his skills and accomplishments through

facial expression, body posture and the expensive quality of his own attire.

Everything that speaks to Moroni as a portraitist par excellence is

accomplished in this exquisite painting.

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(image from bbc.com):

The Tailor (Il Tagliapanni), 1565 – 1570

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The Royal Academy of the Arts (RAA), London

will host an eagerly awaited exhibition

on the portraiture by Giovanni Battista Moroni.

The show is curated by the RAA’s own Arturo Galansino.

For the first time, many of the paintings will be seen outside of Italy.

This is a show not to be missed.

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Giovanni Battista Moroni

Royal Academy of the Arts, London

25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015

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For additional details on the exhibition and related lectures/discussions, visit:

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/giovanni-battista-moroni

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“The only method to be not in the world, but outside of the world is to be an artist”: the genius of Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy of Arts – London

09 Thursday Oct 2014

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Abstract artist: the painter and sculptor

Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany 1945-

the year World War II finally ended.

He was raised in a war- torn, war – ravaged country,

surrounded by rumble, debris, chaos and destruction:

remnants of the aftermath of war.

On his childhood, he once said in interview:

“I would build little houses with bricks from bombed buildings.”

(telegraph.co.uk)

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(image from zimbio.com):

Anselm Kiefer

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This environment of ruin, left an indelible mark

which would later translate into the language of his art work.

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(images from saatchigallery.com):

Maikafer flieg, 1974

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Wolundlied, 1982

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(image from grandpalais-fr):

Monumenta

Installation art at the Grand Palais (Paris), 2007

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(image from guggenheim-bilboa.es):

Sunflowers, 1996

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Kiefer’s creations seek to interpret his perception of

of history, mythology and poetry as modifiers

of the human experience.

His body of work addresses the personal:

the destroyed physical surroundings of his childhood town

and the collective: the sum of a culture seemingly consigned

to definition by a single, evil element-

Nazi usurpation of the German identity.

Elements of Kiefer’s art seek to reclaim the German artistic output

from Nazi association.

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(image from tate.org):

Man Under a Pyramid, 1999

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(image from royalacademy.org):

Order of the Night, 1996

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Executed on a grand scale in attitude and actual proportions, his pieces

be it painting, sculpture, installation are emotive, psychological, arresting,

disturbing and dark. He uses a variety of materials: sand, straw, lead,

boulders, newspapers, photographers, photo reels, books, paper

and whatever else is at hand.

This appears poignantly reminiscent of the boy Anselm,

who built “little houses” from salvaged bits of wreckage.

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(images from royalacademy.org):

Interior, 1981

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Nothung, 1973

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Kiefer finds inspiration not only from his personal childhood recollections

and grievous moments of German history, but also he is influenced by

a profound interest in the cosmos and humankind’s place in it.

The writings of his favourite poets too find expression in his art.

His thick application of paint to canvas is akin to Impressionists artists,

in particular Vincent Van Gogh, whom Kiefer greatly admired.

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(image from royalacademy.org):

Black Flakes, 2006

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Though Kiefer’s art seems at first glance an assortment of

the dark and gloomy and more of the same,

there is a sense of a sentiment of rebirth.

There is this architectural element to his pieces;

a layering, a building, a stacking.

There is a feeling that from destruction there is construction:

that there exists a possibility of new beginnings,

that there is always a glimmer of hope,

however faint.

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Sprache der Vogel

Located in the foyer of the exhibition space

Royal Academy of Arts, 2014

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Ages of the World

Installation art, Royal Academy of Art, 2014

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The Royal Academy of Art presents

Anselm Kiefer

until 14 December 2014

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The exhibition boasts two works of

installation, created in situ by the artist.

Mark your diary! an exhibition on the paintings of artist Kazimir Malevich and the development of Suprematism, Tate Modern – London

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Kazimir Malevich, 1879 -1935

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Self portrait, 1908 – 1910

Kazimir Malevich

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was a Russian painter whose work was influenced by Cubist aesthetics,

as introduced by the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

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Cubism was an art movement, which originated in the 1910s

with Picasso and Braque interpretive of a breaking up and re-assembling

of a given subject in basic geometric shapes and abstract form.

The rendering is meant to be appreciated from various focal perspectives,

thus generating a sense of dimensionality and dynamism.

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(image from artchive.com):

cubist portrait of Wilhem Uhde, 1910

by Pablo Picasso

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(image from tellcliff.com):

Carafe, Jug and Fruit Bowl, 1909

by Pablo Picasso

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(images from acquavella galleries:

Harbour, 1909

by George Braques

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Glass, Bottle and Newspaper

by Georg Braques

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Cubist sensibilities and abstract imagery

in interpreting how images are viewed and depicted

resonated with Kazimir Malevich,

who took geometric abstraction another step in his creating of

Suprematism.

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In Suprematism, a term he coined in 1915,

Malevich was concerned with expressing purity:

works free from political or social innuendos

composed of simple geometric forms.

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Mark your diary!

The Tate Modern, London

is the venue for a retrospective exhibition,

which chronicles the works of Kazimir Malevich

from his early landscape paintings / local scenes,

his development of Suprematism

and later works of figurative art.

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Early Works:

local scene / landscape

(images from pravda.ru):

Flower Girl, 1903

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Landscape, 1906 – 1908

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Suprematism

paintings by Kazimir Malevich

(image from tate.org.uk):

Black Square, 1915

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(image from artinthepicture.com):

Aeroplane Flying

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(images from art observed):

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painted in 1916

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painted in 1917

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Later Works:

figurative paintings

(images from art might):

Three Women, 1928

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Two Peasants, 1928

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Tate Modern, London

Bankside, London SE

Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian Art

until 26 October 2014

For further information:

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/malevich

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“The only method to be not in the world, but outside of the world is to be an artist”: the genius of Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy of Arts – London

The Royal Academy of Art presents

Anselm Kiefer

until 14 December 2014

Mark your diary! an exhibition on the paintings of artist Kazimir Malevich and the development of Suprematism, Tate Modern – London

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