Wednesday, August 22, 2012

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!
 

Friday, August 17, 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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.

Friday, August 10, 2012

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.

Monday, August 06, 2012

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".

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Painting of the day by Ilya Repin

 I like this painting by Ilya Repin called "Dragon-fly". It is a portrait of the artist's daughter, Vera Repina (1884, oil on canvas). More about Repin here. He was born on August 5, 1844, so it's his birthday today. He was a great Russian realist painter.