“We live between two silences.”~Mark Strand

I’m not just interested in the room, I’m interested in the room beyond the room.

“Gayle, Holly’s Room”, oil on 24”x48”, private collection. 🔴

Why are bedside tables generally so pokily small? Seen here in her bedroom at La Casa Azul in Mexico, Frida Kahlo bucks the trend and enjoys a generous space for her books and other nicknacks ~ even including a miniature double bed (photo: Gisèle Freund)
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"Sushi from Tesco" - my oil painting (yes, with a fork!)

A pair of turquoises de beaded evening heeled shoes with pointed toes

A pair of royal blue satin evening shoes with strappy decoration and an upturned toe

A pair of pale pink evening heels with ribbon fastening inspired by ballet shoes

A pair of sheer grey green evening heels with multicoloured sequins and beads

Thursdays are quite a LOT with a good six hours of teaching so here a confectionary selection of impractical footwear (at least for my huge feet) to soothe a tired brain. All late #1950s Roger Vivier for Dior @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The Reader

by Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942)

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires, Argentina

Frida Kahlo photographiée par son père, Guillermo Kahlo, Mexique, 1919.

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (Danish, 1863-1935)
Interior with a Cello, n.d. Oil on panel, 14 ¾ x 15 in. (37.5 x 38.1 cm.).

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

#EricBowman
Diva

'Whitesand Bay, Cornwall.' (c1914) There is an obvious overlapping with Laura and Harold Knight's subject matter, but their approach was different. In Laura's work, we can feel an immediacy, Harold is more restrained, meticulous and his work rarely involves people.

Today's #ootd golden creation is this 1992 Oscar de la Renta evening gown. It is made of a devoré velvet brocade skirt and a gold applique bodice. The elegant mix of these two luxurious, bright textiles is scrumptious. #Fashionhistory

The golden #ootd is a 1680-1720 gown made of a golden brocaded fabric. Items this old survive because of the fabric used- it was so precious (some of the most expensive items a person owned) that they were carefully stored away and passed down for generations. #Fashionhistory

#Ootd is this 1950s evening dress made of gold silk satin with gold metallic threads and decorated with rhinestones. Absolutely gorgeous. It was sold by G. Fox and Co, a department store founded in Connecticut. #Fashionhistory

Olivia de Havilland won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in To Each His Own #OnThisDay in 1947. She wore this Edith Head designed sheer brown linen dress with a ruffled collar with faux mother-of-pearl buttons as Jody Norris. Sold by Bonhams. #Oscars #costume

This week's #ThirtiesThursday garment is this beautiful Nina Ricci Haute Couture black silk evening dress. The dress has puffed sleeves, a full-length bias-cut skirt and a back panel of patchwork diamond-shaped silk. Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #fashionhistory #littleblackdress

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

An example of the surreal, enigmatic, dreamlike art of Gertrude Abercrombie. 'The Queen' depicts a woman with long dark hair, wearing a blue gown with a long train, and a crown. She carries a sceptre/wand. She is standing in a bare room with a dark red floor, her gaze turned towards us. Perched on a ledge behind her is an owl, who holds up the end of the train in its beak.

"Surrealism is meant for me. I am a pretty realistic person but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed. Then I change it to the way I want it."
~Gertrude Abercrombie

🎨 The Queen, 1954
#OwlishMonday

Painting of an owl with ear tufts sitting on branches that are bare of leaves but on which the first petals are starting to open.

#OwlishMonday 'Early Plum Blossoms' by Nishimura Goun (1936), painted on silk

Woman and owl sitting side by side on a crescent moon, appearing to have a conversation.

'The Witch’s Daughter'
by Frederick Stuart Church
Engraving by J. P. Davys (1881)

#OwlishMonday

Dancer at the Barre 1880 by Edgar Degas

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

A small hill-top flat-roofed tower. Steps lead up to a turquoise door.

‘The Roost’

Latest (small) painting. Oil and acrylic on canvas.

Louise at her home for a fashion photo by Otto Dyar, 1927. From a new to me image on view last year at the NY MOMA exhibit “Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography.”

French fashion designer André Courrèges was born #OnThisDay in 1923. He designed this yellow ziberline mini-dress with inset organdie bands applied with embroidered yellow-edged daisies in 1968. A similar dress was featured in French Vogue. Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #FashionHistory

American dancer and actress Cyd Charisse was born #OnThisDay in 1922. She wore this Helen Rose designed burgundy velvet dress with chenille braid and tassel embellishments as prima ballerina Mlle. Ariane Bouchet in The Unfinished Dance (1947). Sold via iCollector. #film #costume

William Arthur Chase - The Keynote (1915)
#ArteYArt #Postimpresionismo

'Portrait of a Young Woman Reading,' by Dean Cornwell, 1924

Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter) 1907 - 1954
Portrait of Virginia, 1929
oil on masonite
101 x 84 cm.
Museum Dolores Olmedo, Mexico, Mexico

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Susan Cairns (Irish Artist, born 1979)
"Daisy Cup", 2017.
Oil on Board, 10 × 8 cm.
Private Collection.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

'Girl in the Wind.' (1898) Akseli
Gallen-Kallela painted this work from a rocky promontory overlooking Lake Keitele in central Finland. It was a place that held a special significance for him and to which he had only just returned after several years of absence.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski

Bette Davis in "Fashions", 1934.

#movies #comedy #musical #fashion #oldtimes #cinema