Tuesday 10 April 2012

Mood Boards and Inspiration

Violet Eyes Cocktail Hat Inspiration Board

Black 'Honeymoon' Hat

Bridal 'crown' for the Queen of Hollywood

Surreal Flower Cap

English Rose Garden Hat

Tuesday 3 April 2012

Art Movements of the 1950s - Contextual Studies

Art Movements of the 1950s

Abstract Expressionism was the first American art movement to acheive worldwide influence and one that put New York City at the centre of the art world. A role normally filled by Paris.

After WWII, with images of the Holocaust everywhere, it seemed redundant for socially aware artists to paint these same images. A photograph at that time was much more powerful. Artists began to explore colour, shape and to paint entire canvasses one colour.
It combined the emotional intensity of German expressionism and the anti-figurative aesthetic of european abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and cubism.

Action painting Jackson Pollack, Franz Kline and Willem De Kooning



 Jackson Pollack



 Franz Kline

Willem De Kooning



Colour Field and Hard Edge painting Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Helen Frankenhaler



 Mark Rothko





Barnett Newman


Helen Frankenthaler


Op Art Bridget Riley, Victor Vaserely, Richard Allen

 Victor Vaserely


 Bridget Riley

Pop Art Emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and the late 50s in US. Pop art started as a rebellion against Abstract Expressionism, which was considered to be pretentious and over intense

British Pop Artists The Independent Group
Richard Hamilton, John McHale Eduardo Paolozzi


 Eduardo Paolozzi
Richard Hamilton


American Pop Artists
Roy Lichenstein, Jaspar Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg


 Roy Lichtenstein
 Jasper Johns
 Robert Rauschenburg



Andy Warhol






Claes Oldenburg








The Amazing Miss Taylor - More Pics and Inspiration

More images form my research on the wonderful Miss Taylor. The hard bit is knowing when to stop!