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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Eyes Are Amazing

Aren't they? I always loved the very top image. The rest followed.

Thomas-Michael

Design And Lifestyle New York Fashion Gorgeous Eyes Shu Uemura

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Shu Uemura.

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Shu Uemura.

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Shu Uemura.

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Shu Uemura.

Design And Lifestyle New York Fashion Gorgeous Eyes

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Glamour Magazine.

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing.

Design And Lifestyle New York Fashion Gorgeous Eyes Guerlain Terracotta Inca Summer 2011 Collection

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Guerlain Terracotta Inca Summer 2011 Collection.

Design And Lifestyle New York Fashion Gorgeous Eyes Lancome Bronze Azure Summer 2011

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Fashion, Eyes Are Amazing. Lancome Bronze Azure Summer 2011.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Independent
Freedom Of Expression
Rebellious
Expansive
'All-Over'
Native American(Early Influence)
Self-Referential(It's About The 'Idea' Of Painting)

And if any of the above qualities sound familiar, don't be surprised by what day it is today. He managed to touch the world of high art and the public at large. All at the same time. And all while he was alive. I suppose you could say he was a brand within himself. The last image is intentionally in the incorrect orientation. I'm not positive that it hasn't been done yet, but I don't think it has. So if not, it's my veiled plea to the museums of the world to display a Pollock on the floor.

Thomas-Michael

Design And Lifestyle New York Blog Modern Art Jackson Pollock Painting

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American Art, Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, Detail, 1948, The Museum Of Modern Art, New York. There are an infinite number of beautiful details in Pollock, but look closely at this one and you can see his hand print on it.

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American Art, Jackson Pollock, Number 14, Gray, 1948, The Katharine Ordway Collection.

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American Art, Jackson Pollock, Number 4, Gray And Red, 1948, The Guggenheim Museum.

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American Art, Jackson Pollock, Photographer Hans Namuth, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

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American Art, Jackson Pollock. Always amazing to see the scale.

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American Art, Jackson Pollock, 1951 Vogue Editorial. In true American style, he was a fixture of culture in his own time. Here seen in a Vogue editorial.

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American Art, Jackson Pollock. Would be nice to see one displayed on the floor, wouldn't it.

Friday, July 1, 2011

4th Of July And The American Home: Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water

Told you I was going to get thematic. So today is all about Frank Lloyd Wright. Because even though it's difficult to imagine that you could distill the entire history and every instance of the American house into one building, it's true in the case of Falling Water. In my opinion it has to considered as the very definition of the American house.

But why?

While modern European architecture had been putting houses on stilts and pedestals, Wright was locking it into the landscape. Architecture wasn't an abstraction lifted above nature. But rather a system of integration within it. It's a theme which plays out in Wright's utopian green cities which are self sustaining, and which are further historically indicative of Jefferson's grid. Which rather than seeking to dominate nature, sought to organize it for efficiency. In general it's this integration with nature and it's metaphoric relationship to the notion of an agrarian nation which I think is so powerful and so American in Wright's work, and in this house in particular.

Stylistically the horizon is the obvious theme. His obsession with the horizontal to me always more broadly implied the westward expansion. Not surprising where he ended up. You could say he's draping the horizon over the landscape here or that he's shattering it. And as such representing it more completely in a cubist sense. The finish materials inside are well, the landscape itself. There's almost no inside and outside definition. Interior staircases lead to outside water. Which essentially runs through the middle of the house. Corners are negated in glass, and the prior existing site boulders beneath the house are allowed to pop through the floor on the inside. But what I always forget before looking at it again are the furnishings. Again they are locked into the house architecture. Built in. And thus transitively to the outside as well. But they are also distinctly American in style. Always the autumn colors. It's difficult to imagine them anywhere else in the world. But I also love them, because I could see taking inspiration from them today. They basically look in style now.

Now, if you haven't been I highly recommend going to visit it. I can't stress that enough. You will be impressed. It's just outside of Pittsburgh, and it's one of those buildings that is about a thousand times more powerful in person.

Thomas-Michael