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Sunday, 29 August 2010

Vera Neumann

The prints of Vera Neumann from the 1960's and 70's are classic and timeless.

Friday, 27 August 2010

The Peacock Room was an interior created by the painter James McNeill Whistler. Originally created in a Kensington (London) residence it now is located in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington. There is such a strong influence of east asian art and ornament within the interior. Created in 1876-77. The book titled The Peacock Lounge by Linda Merrill is beautifully illustrated and informative.

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Matthew Harris

Matthew is currently exhibiting in the Men of Cloth exhibition, Manchester. This piece feels particularly striking, quilting, collage, drawing, dying, painterly.

http://www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk/

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Matisse

I have not checked out the rest of this blog but this article on Matisse is lovely:

http://www.thestylesaloniste.com/2010/03/artists-i-love-meeting-m.html

maths & nature

Fibonacci Spiral

I have long been fascinated by the idea of Fibonacci since a graduate based her project on this, in a former life she had been an accountant but the maths application remained in her practice.

Symmetry is another aspect that is seen a lot in nature and textiles.

This site seems very informative: http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

Butterfly Scales

3D flea - microscopic image.

Synchaeta (transparent predatory rotifer).

Under the microscope. This site has some cracking imagery: www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/

Seeds and Negatives

Sir David Brewster, seated at Lacock Abbey next to Talbot's microscope

Calotype negative, July 1842

Two delicate plant fronds, photographic negative drawing, 1939.

From the letters of William Henry Fox Talbot, Photographic engraving: mid 1850's.

Pomme Chan

This work by designer Pomme Chan has a strong graphic but feminine feel. Her work includes car design, fashion, illustration, textiles.

www.pommepomme.com

Friday, 30 July 2010

Kahori Maki

Design

Interior commision ( themagentalinks.com/2009/02/12/kahori-maki/ )

Comme des Garcons commision.

Car exterior commision.

Illustrator, designer, interiors, fashion. commisioned by Comme des Garcons, vehicle manufacturers as well as fashion and interiors. Maki is succesfully recognising the wide variety of opportunities available.

Japanese born artist and designer is heavily influenced by nature, insects etc.

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Majestic Jodhpur

Comic Oceans (1 of 7), 1823 Source: 20

Ganesha, Saraswati and Jallandharnath (detail) ca 1825. Source: 20

Sage Markandeya's Ashram and the Milky Ocean, Watercolour on gold paper, ca. 1780-90. Source: 20

This book is so beautiful, full of stunning illustration of the royal paintings of Jodhpur. The paintings use of colour, composition and scale all work to tell the tales of society.

Book... Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur.

Kuniyoshi

Gustav Klimt, The Bride, 1917-18. Source: 23

Kiki Smith, Come Away from Her (after Lewis Carroll), 2003. Source: 22

Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Jiraiya (centre), with a monster toad, 1852. Source: 18

Last stand of the Kusunoki heroes at Shijo-Nawate, 1851 Source: 18

Kuniyoshi, Tametomo Rescued from Suicide by Tengu, 1851. Source: 18

These prints were created by the Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861), considered alongside Hokusai and Hiroshige as one of the greatest of the Japanese printers.

His work primarily uses a woodblock printing technique, the prints really are quite sublime and you can clearly see how this work has been visually influential in the work of other artists, Kiki Smith and Klimt come to mind immediatly.

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Illustration

Rachel Griffin - textile illustrated books. The Fabrics of Fairytale & African Tales: a Barefoot Collection.

Work completed as a part of the Fancy Stitch initiative in South Africa. The project teaches stitching skills and uses images that are developed by the individual artist - which often come directly from personal memory. The works are then sold to provide income for the artist who made thye work. http://www.fancy.org.za/

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Questioning

Basso & Brooke, 2010. Chain mail styled cloth, constructed. Source: 5

Sometimes you come across textiles that questions and challenges the notion of process. This work by Anna Glassbrook was shown at The Octagon in Bath but was work that she completed as a student at Bath Spa and was subsequently shown at New Designers 2010. The work explores the idea of stitch in space, as 3d and had a feeling of a stitch suspended in space.