I recently stumbled upon a collage on Pinterest, and although the link was missing, I was able to find the website through a reverse image search on google. The collage work I found was inspiring.
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Collage work of Ashley Edwards
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Just a small post of some images that have been inspiring me recently.
Bennett School for Girls Fencing Class (1890s, source)
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I can only hope to be as cool as this woman one day.
Clothing: Chester Weinberg for Vogue, September 1967.
Photographer: Irving Penn
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Wilhemina Cooper, 1960s
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Carnaby Street, London, 1967
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Sharmila Tagore in Sawan Ki Ghata
(source: dhrupad)
Friday, March 22, 2013
Saw these photos by Nick Knight of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for L'Officiel Homme.
The lighting on Kanye is amazing.
The photos with Kim are strictly black and white but are just as beautiful.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Aaron Smith has an absolutely amazing style and paints with thick and bold strokes of oil paint in hallucinatory colors. I'm not much of a painter, but his work is so inspiring. I would love to own a print of his work one day.
His artist statement:
The Victorian/Edwardian eras have always captured my attention. For years I’ve collected vintage photographs of men of the period. These men for me represent a masculine ideal, if largely a constructed one. Their bearded faces and distinguished attire are spectacular, while their stiff poses and serious expressions belie a certain vulnerability. My recent decision to translate these small colorless photographs into monumental, expressionist portraits is an attempt to ruminate on these contradictions. I also want to draw parallels between the rituals of initiation found in western culture and those practiced in tribal cultures by painting these gentlemen with colors inspired by Bird-of-Paradise and the extravagantly decorated Huli Wigmen of Papua New Guinea.
Shirkster (Prince Albert Victor) 2013, oil on panel, 40"x40"
Uranian (Edward Carpenter) 2012, oil on panel, 24” x 22”
Chippy, 2008, oil on panel, 28" x 28"
Left Handed Likely, 2011, oil on panel, 60" x 48"
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