KAWAKOONING
Did DeKooning ever design a dress? Not that we know of. Yet one of his favorite inspirations was the feminine form. Think of the Women series. Did Kawakubo ever depict the feminine form, as...
Monthly Archive: September 2017
PROFANE REPRESENTATION
Let’s say you are an artist in the Middle Ages. In that guise, you did not want your drawings or paintings to look representational. Instead, you deliberately constructed your images in a non linear...
WHAT MONDRIAN KNEW
Any time the great poet Charles Wright uses the word transparent, we take notice. “As Mondrian knew, Art is the image of an image of an image, More vacant, more transparent With each repeat...
MUSEUM SKETCHERS
Possibly you have heard of the organization Urban Sketchers. Urban Sketchers do what the title suggests; they sketch in urban settings. And they do it in a group. So there is a social component...
SOTTSASS AT MET BREURER
The Sottsass exhibition at the Met Breurer shows some of the inspiration of the designer’s work. The exhibition made a specific point of showing some of the exact things that Sottsass was looking at...
MCLUHAN AND TRANSPARENCY
WhenMarshall McLuhan uses the word transparency, we take note. In the passage below, they give us the following description at what happened at the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: “The rebirth...
CREATION STORY
We are not taught the story of creation. As I have said before in these pages, when we are taught about famous buildings, is it a flashcard mentality. We are taught to recognize the...
KAWAKUBO – ABSTRACT EXCELLENCE
I can’t stop drawing Kawakubo. Since I saw the Comme des Garcons exhibit at the Met, I have made a Kawakubo inspired Transparent Drawing every day. The more that I look at the photos...
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