Sometimes art is a bomb blazer. And I’m also gonna go ahead and say Jenny Lewis is always art; hello!, look at those cascading waves on waves! Not to mention the nameplates!
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hbd, andy warhol
Happy birthday, Andy Warhol. I’ll crack a cold Coke, or a bunch of ’em, for you.
Fun fact: Coca Cola’s swirl, known as the Dynamic Ribbon, was part of a graphic re-design in 1969. Its design is made to look like the bottle’s contour. Snazzy!
katy perry
Katy Perry’s latest video “This is How We Do” dropped yesterday. Spoiler: She channels a whole lotta Mondrian. Well, guess, what girlfriend?! This isn’t original. Don’t get me wrong, I love a solid geometric print, but it’s been done!
So, drumroll please…When it comes to Mondrian, Katy Perry did it.
Nike did it.
L’Oreal’s packaging department in the 80s did it.
During Tour de France in the 80s, cycling team La Vie Clair did it.
Vogue, using Yves Saint Laurent’s shift dress in 1965, did it.
I mean, for crying out loud, Katy, Urban Outfitters did it.
Looks like we can’t have our cake and eat it too.
warhol
Sometimes art is grocery shopping (though, let’s be real, it’s mostly a hassle). Luckily for you, Andy Warhol, I too am always under-utilizing my shopping cart while wearing sunglasses! It’s like we’re twins.
edvard munch
Edvard Munch (let’s get on the same page with pronunciation: ed-vahrd moonk) is one of the most famous artists, right? The Scream is like our modern Mona Lisa. He loved his paintings like children, never married, and spent the last thirty years of his life living alone.
He was also totally bananas: The painting recreates a panic attack he had while out on the town with friends. Of experience, he said,
The “air turned to blood” and the “faces of my comrades became a garish yellow-white.”
Um, boyfriend? None of that is normal! Though, when I realized that one of Munch’s friends was Paul Gauguin, well…no WONDER your life is grotesque, Ed!
Munch was found dead in his house (on the second floor, with the doors locked) in 1944. He had more than 20,000 works of art in his studio at the time of his death.
drake <3 james turrell
A few months ago, Drake visited the James Turrell retrospective at the LACMA. Rolling Stone followed him around the show (full profile here).
Drake, on his YOLO Estate: “I was like, ‘What are the world’s craziest residential pools?’ and when I searched online, this came up. One of my goals in life is to have the biggest residential pool on the planet.”
He also followed up with the museum guide, asking about installing a Turrell work in his house. His response included the phrase “residentials.”
An interesting business venture for someone who called “the whole rap/art world thing…kind of corny.”
hbd, degas
Huffington Post made me feel TERRIBLE this morning when it mentioned Degas celebrated his 180th birthday and I didn’t even know about it. Well, I’m going to go ahead and pretend that turning 180 years old requires two days and therefore, I am RIGHT ON TIME.
Degas is well-known for his ballerina paintings and sculptures, but he wasn’t always the popular Impressionist at school. Critics often called his work “appalling ugliness.”
His response?
“Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people’s compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?”
Preach, Degas. I feel that way when girls stare. It’s a printed maxi, ladies, and I am OWNING IT.
gertrude vanderbilt whitney
Give me everything about this look. The layered pajama tops? Those cinched-ankle pants?! Obsessed.
Work it, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney! (This was painted in 1916. Here’s something real: I’m not even gonna WAIT for the centennial to make this LOOK HAPPEN!)
sunday night blues
Paul Gauguin, sans trousers, playing the piano. So there IS something worse than Monday.
U – S – A
Sometimes art is a patriotic soccer game.
America is starting Graham Zusi and not Kyle Beckerman against Belgium today.
Translation? USMNT is making my soccer crush decision for me.
Don’t worry, Kyle. It’ll be like a Jack and Rose thing, I’ll never let go.
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