The Paternal Suit by F. Scott Hess

The Paternal Suit consists of over 100 paintings, prints, and objects created by artist F. Scott Hess as his own "family heirlooms" and presented as legitimate historical artifacts. It opens tonight: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, watch video and see more images here: LINK 

Exhibit runs: Aug 24- Oct 6, 2012

161 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29401
 843.953.HICA (4422)

Wonderful idea and execution, with a good dose of humor.

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Geishas as Bathing Beauties (1900)

These geishas-as-bathing-beauties (1900) came from Okinawa Soba flickr

(featured on retronaut blog today)

 These are inspiring to me as I have been painting bathers for a while. So charming!

 

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Fantasmagorie 1908 - Early Animation

This film is by French artist Emile Cohl 

Here's another link.

(Thanks, Moira Hahn for Youtube link)

Royal French Ballet 1620s

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The Hazardous Perrette and a Cat, Daniel Rabel 1620s Royal French Ballet

Ballet des Fées de la forêt de Saint Germain

Music Recital for grand Ballet.

More illustrations like this at BibliOdyssey

The cat above reminds me a lot of my little pierrots that I painted from my imagination in 2004-2005.

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Kusama and Cornell

 Yayoi Kusama with Cornell 1970

(he looks a little like he's choking her, but she looks happy)

Yayoi Kusama Age 10 1939

Blouin Artinfo has more photos of Kusama (that's where I got these).

Link to my recent boingboing essay on the book about Joseph Cornell, Utopia Parkway.

Kusama and her relationship with Cornell is mentioned in the book.

The photo (above) was taken in 1970, he died in 1972.

Ladies on Bicycles 1899

What am I up to?

Here are some details of a larger oil painting that I am working on.

These are just some quicky ipod glimpses of the unfinished work.

The temporary title is "Fig Leaf Parasol".

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