Category Archive: Art & Artists
Nobody’s Muse
Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (born 1917) was nobody’s muse. She and her lover Max Ernst made pictures of each other, she explained. “I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse,” said Carrington. “I was too busy rebelling against my family…
Birds on a Wire
A pretty musical piece, price by Brazilian artist Jarbas Agnelli, was created when he saw this photo of birds in a local newspaper and created a song based on the exact position of the birds on their wire perches. I think…
The Woman of 50 Faces
I’m still thinking about John Galliano‘s muse. This season he dedicated his spring collection, which was shown in Paris last week, to Maria Lani, a Polish émigrée who in the late 1920s enthralled Paris’s painters and sculptors from Mogdiliani to Matisse…
Kiki in Motion
Kiki de Montparnasse, Man Ray‘s famously saucy lady muse, plays a big role in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. I was thinking of her today and came across this great, short compilation of archival black and white film footage of Kiki—shot…
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