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Here is some of my work (the Serpent, and the Starburst Pine), hanging in one of the Sundance Film Festival's gathering spots, The Bing Bar. Leah-Ball Steen, from Revival Home and Garden, in Seattle, was kind enough to ask me to be involved in the project, as she was the hired designer...She did a beautiful job... Thanks again, Leah! |
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Olympia Le Tan is a one of the many friends (in my head) that I have saved a spot for, (in my ridiculously small circle), along with a few others, whom I adore from a distance, and I know is going to call any day now for a girl's night out, and yes, Olympia, of course I will come to your house for tea... |
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Here is my other buddy, (in my head), Lou Dillon... Love these totes and banners that Olympia created as well. |
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Good morning beauties and gents...I am in for a day of hardcore hand work, pressing, pushing, braying, and printing away today. I have many NEW pieces I am working on, and can't wait for you all to see them. In the mean time I will be nourishing myself with LOADS upon LOADS of coffee and tea, (my lethal combo when I can't stop working) as I was up till 3 last night (super inspired), sketching ideas for my new collection! |
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One of the biggest events to EVER happen in the Seattle art scene, is the Picasso exhibit that is showing at the Seattle Art Museum, and today, is the last day. It is an amazing collection from the Musee National Picasso, Paris, and is a once in a lifetime chance to see it here in the states. The Seattle Art Museum will be open until midnight tonight, so get there in plenty of time, as lines, I am sure, will be long.. |
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| La Celestina - 1904 These paintings were some of my favorite of the bunch.. The above La Celestina was painted in Picasso's "Blue" period and was hauntingly gorgeous.Did you know that Picasso created 50,000 pieces of work in his lifetime? That is insane, people... |
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| Acrobats - 1918 |
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| Portrait of Olga in an Armchair, Fall 1918 |
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Portrait of Dora Maar - 1937 If you go, do not miss the audio tour version of the story of Dora Maar. Picasso was a well-known womanizer, and this painting was his "before falling out of love with her", painting. The "after" falling out of love painting, (below), makes the beautiful Dora Maar, look like a haggard old mess, when it was only a year after they fell madly in love. Picasso broke a lot of hearts, and many of his lovers, committed suicide after he left them, (usually for another woman). The story of how he met Dora is fascinating. They both were sitting at a cafe in Paris, and she was performing an act where she would spread her hand on the table and, as fast as she could, gouge a sharp knife between all of her fingers. Picasso fell in love, and apparently kept her bloody gloves that she was wearing, in a museum-like, glass case for the rest of his life.  Woman Who Cries-1937 |
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| Cat Catching a Bird, April 22, 1939 |
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The Seattle Art Museum is excited to present a landmark exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), arguably the most radical and influential artist of the 20th century. The exhibition presents iconic works from virtually every phase of Picasso’s legendary career, documenting the full range of his unceasing inventiveness and prodigious creative process. Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in Paris—the largest and most important repository of the artist’s work in the world—the exhibition features more than 150 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs. This unprecedented opportunity is possible at this time because the Musée Picasso has recently closed for renovations, allowing a global tour of this full-scale survey to travel for the first and, very likely, the only time. The Musée Picasso’s holdings stand apart from any other collections of Picasso because they represent the artist’s personal collection—works that the highly self-aware artist kept for himself with the intent of shaping his own artistic legacy. Every major period from the artist’s prolific output over eight decades is represented, including the Blue Period La Celestina (1904), Rose Period The Two Brothers (1906), African art–inspired Three Figures Under a Tree (1907), Cubist Man with a Guitar (1911), and the classicizing Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race) (1922), to speak of only the first quarter of his career. Highlights from the period associated with his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter and his provocative dissolution of the human form include a quintet of Head of a Woman bronzes from 1931 and the portrait Reading from 1932, while another muse, Dora Maar, is represented in many guises, from stately beauty in Portrait of Dora Maar (1937) to emotional wreck in Weeping Woman from the same year. Picasso’s lengthy career spanned both world wars, the Spanish civil war and the Korean War, and each conflict exerted a presence in his work. The impending chaos of World War II, for instance, is reflected in such canvases asMan with a Straw Hat and Ice Cream Cone (1938) and Cat Seizing a Bird (1939), while his consistent challenges to sculptural tradition are traced with such icons as Head of a Bull (1942), The Goat (1950) and the grand figurative groupThe Bathers (1956). Renewed interest in his late period is also amply sated by the exhibition, with numerous paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s, including the sly self-portrait The Matador(1970). This is the first major survey of the long and productive career of Pablo Picasso ever to be seen in the Northwest. –Chiyo Ishikawa, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art and Curator of European Painting & Sculpture All images courtesy of The Seattle Art Museum |
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Pucci is known for their prints which,(in the past), have seemed to be inspired by bright 60's-ish geometrics, and that always felt a bit too flashy, for me. These new creations, are a magical mystery tour of awesome. |
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| This one is my fav...Reminds me of something Anais Nin would wear... |
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| I would give my left eye. Have a great weekend! |
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The photo's above and below, have got to be some of the best groupings of art, that I have ever seen. |
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Gorgeous, sexy and glam...These photographs are perfection... |
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My head is in a slight fog today, and because there is so much to do, I kinda wanna rock this look... A bunch of balloons attached to my head as to avoid seeing, and being seen...Hope you have a great start to your week.... |
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This is the kind of found object, that makes my eyes widen and my lip curl... Don't you LOVE??? Found here |
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| Have a great weekend...and please, get outside and enjoy yourselves, somehow... Whether it be for a walk, or a hike, or a owl watching expedition... This little invention called the computer, can take wonderful life experiences away from you, if you spend too much time on it... And I want you to be healthy...So please, go.... shoo....;) My family on one of our snowboarding adventures... |
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One of my favorite artists, with one of my favorite couches. |
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Couch image unknown. If you know please let me know so I can list who the source is. Thanks! |
