Karl Meets Kandinsky

Chanel Spring 2012 Collection - Paris Fashion Week (via Fashion Gone Rogue)

It would seem that Karl Lagerfeld has followed suit and much like Rodarte has looked towards Modern Art for inspiration, this time in the Russian Expressionist style of Wassily Kandinsky. See what I mean?

All Saints II, 1911

Composition V, 1911

Improvisation 10, 1910

Improvisation 21a, 1911

Improvisation 26 (Rowing), 1912

Degas the Photographer

(via The Sunday Times Magazine)

Edgar Degas, famed for the Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, but who knew that he was such an avid photographer? During the later years of his life when his eyesight was failing him, the artist turned to the camera to express his intrigue and love for the freedom and movement of the human form.

Night Owl

   
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day."
- Van Gogh (via m o l d a v i a)

Calder at Home

Taken from The Joyous-Environment of Alexander Calder by Pedro Guerreo (via Where the Lovely Things Are)

Clearly creativity flows from clutter. It represents an active and responsive imagination, or that's what I like to think... Orderly chaos is my middle name(s).

The Modern Art Basher

Once again Susan Burns has violently attacked an early 20th Century masterpiece. Earlier in the year the middle-aged woman took an extreme dislike to Gauguin's Two Tahitian Women and was arrested after attacking it due to the CIA supposedly ordering her to do so via a radio implanted in her head. Clearly her mistrust for Modern Art goes beyond Post-Impressionism, with her latest attack filtering out to the Fauvist artist - Matisse and The Plumed Hat (this time slamming it against the wall at quite a force). Which movement or artist is next? I was never really a fan of Dali, so maybe we could channel her in that direction?

Paul Gauguin's Two Tahitian Women, 1899

Henri Matisse's The Plumed Hat, 1919 (via HUH)

Winter Florals

Manet, 1862

My parents have just got back from Paris. And they very kindly bought me a little t-shirt from Musee d'Orsay. Apparently the floral print originates from Manet's 'Lola de Valence' but it reminds me more of Jil Sander's Fall Collection.