Marion Peck News

Here's Marion Peck standing in front of a magnificent painting at the opening of her exhibit at Billy Shire Fine Art over the weekend. It must have taken her a year to paint this painting. Photo courtesy of Val Gal Art . You can read more about her opening by following the link. More power to women painters! I can totally relate to the time spent, the attention to detail and layering of oil paint to get these effects. Good job Marion.

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Odalisque by Gauguin

The new gallery of 19th and 20th-century art at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow includes Gauguin's "Te Arii Vahine" ("The King's Wife"), from 1896. She's posed like an odalisque, but she's the king's wife (not a slave girl). By the way, my new painting will be unveiled early next week. It has taken much longer than expected.

(Thanks to Chris Keeley at Daily Dreamtime)

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The Genius of Ishikawa Toraji

Playing 1936
Standing Nude 1934
Black Cat 1934

These prints by Ishikawa Toraji are inspiring in so many ways. The colors and sense of design, the gestures and narrative. It's so great to discover someone's art that I can completely relate to. See more of them here:
Hanga Gallery

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Odalisques in Art

Gustave Caillebotte
Henri Matisse

Here are two odalisques that have a similiar feel and pose, although they are done by two vastly different artists. Caillebotte's is so naturalistic. Matisse's odaliques are all about patterns and colors. He did dozens of them.

I realize now that the new painting I am working on is an odalisque of sorts. But, it is also much more than that. It is narrative, surreal and imaginary, not posed. And my girl is not asleep.

I will unveil the painting some time this week. I still have some details to finish up. Stay tuned.

Here's an interesting essay: THE ARCHETYPAL FEMALE IN MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION: THE ANIMA AND THE MOTHER by Dr. Joan Relke (Feb. 17,2007)

"The existence of the anima in the male unconscious is easily attested in mythology and the history of art, both largely the product of male writers and artists. With the anima such an obvious psychological reality in men, one would think that women, if they have as Jung says, a male counterpart in their unconscious, would project male images in the creation of artistic images. But now that women are free to make 'serious' art, the images that appear are rarely male. Instead, a multitude of female images have been born."- an excerpt from Europe's Journal of Psychology

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Anders Zorn 1860-1920

Studio Idyll 1918 by Anders Zorn
Red Sand 1902 by Anders Zorn
I was not familiar with Anders Zorn, but I saw a post about him on
Internet Weekly tonight.
These nudes are intriguing and very original. I especially like his nudes by the river. His sense of coloring, brushstrokes and natural expressions in the faces are wonderful. It looks like she's playing a mando-cello in the top photo.
"Anders Zorn (1860-1920) is the most well-known Swedish painter. He is famous for his paintings of the people of Dalarna, the part of Sweden where he was born, and his nudes in the open space."
More images here: Anders Zorn
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The Silent Vamps

Anna May Wong
Louise Brooks
Lily Damita
Jean Harlow
Silent Ladies
had all the fun.
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Vintage Labels

British Cracker Label with banjo and guitar
Vintage Cigar Box Label
See more examples here:
Cerebro

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