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artist Muller Jean Francois.

muller jeanfrancois — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:59:11 GMT

I am an artist ( painter) from haiti. Currently my work is shown only on the internet . If you are interested in custom made small paintings please take a look at http://www.artistpaintingonline.com contact me for further information! My website is www.artmullerjf.com my email artmuller2003@yahoo.com

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Fernand Khnopff - an introduction

confetta — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:30:43 GMT

Fernand Khnopff - an introduction:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/khnopff.html#essay

Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) began his career when Realism was the most advanced style in Belgium, and he always maintained a commitment to verisimilitude in the details of his works. However, Realism was not enough for him: he insisted that art must suggest the essential mystery behind the visible facts and facades. It was as a painter of symbols and allegories that Khnopff became famous. One of his most baffling allegories is The Caresses, or The Sphinx (1896), a revision of the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
The sphinx was a hybrid monster, part human, part lion, sometimes shown with eagle wings and a serpent's tail also, who blocked the mountain path to the city of Thebes and posed riddles to all who would pass. If the traveler was not able to answer, he or she was torn to pieces. In 1808 the French artist J.A.D. Ingres painted a confrontation between Oedipus and the Sphinx which follows the Greek story quite literally.

Oedipus accepts the challenge while a less brave traveler runs down the hill. Bits and pieces of the corpses of previous challengers lie on the ground. Oedipus points to himself with one hand as he answers the riddle. In the form of the riddle that has come down to us, the sphinx demands to know "What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?" The correct answer is a human being; the deeper question posed by the riddle is what is the meaning of life, and what is the nature of humanity. Although Ingres was a disciple of Jacques-Louis David, and a confirmed classicist, in this work he reveals a fascination with the irrational and the mysterious.

The French Symbolist Gustave Moreau revised Ingres' painting, presenting the confrontation between the rather androgynous hero and the sphinx in an unusually close manner. The sphinx has leapt onto his chest, and they lock eyes as she awaits his response.

They are locked in an almost hypnotic exchange of gazes, and the sphinx looks a bit anxious, as if she has realized that Oedipus will solve the riddle. Moreau was a mystic who felt that the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx was an allegory for the struggle between the soul and matter. He remarked that the sphinx's head and wings seemed to promise the ideal, but her body, being material and female was vile and a trap. The sphinx is thus a kind of femme fatale (fatal woman). Moreau wrote a commentary explaining the picture:

"It is the earthly chimera, as base as matter and as alluring, represented by this charming head of a woman, with wings presaging the ideal, but the body of a monster, a flesh-eater that rends and annihilates."
His Oedipus rises above such earthly temptations, and will destroy the sphinx through his force of will.
Fernand Khnopff's version of the subject builds on these preceding examples, but gives it a personal interpretation. As with Moreau, he depicts Oedipus as androgynous and perhaps even as a magician. Khnopff was never as misogynistic as Moreau, however. The moment shown in Khnopff's painting does not appear in any literary or pictorial source. Oedipus seems to have answered the riddle, but instead of destroying herself, the sphinx cuddles up to him and caresses him with a rather satisfied expression. This is probably because Oedipus is still trapped by fate, despite his success with the riddle. In the unfolding tragedy, he will be granted the kingship of Thebes, and will marry the queen, who is (unbeknownst to him) his mother. Knowledge does not free humans from fate. Oedipus will blind himself as punishment for having looked upon his mother's nakedness, and this blindness will also signify his lack of true vision.

EVOCATIONS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS in WORKS BY KHNOPFF

Dreams and the unconscious were central to Khnopff's art; he frequently quoted these words of Paul Bourget:

“Dreams are but lies,” says an old maxim; but when our last hour is at hand, and but a few brief minutes are left to what was “I,” pale lights that are fast growing dim, who can tell by what mark to distinguish you, O memories of the actual life, from you, O mirages from the dream life.”
Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep and dreams, became such a significant figure to Khnopff that he installed a bust of Hypnos in a private altar in his palace of art, and he declared often that “Sleep was the most perfect thing in life.” A photograph taken after 1900 shows Khnopff posing before this altar, which is inscribed with the phrase “On ne a que soi” (One has only one's self).
The bust of Hypnos figures prominently in I lock my door upon myself of 1891. Perched on a shelf in a narrow room, in which a young woman with flowing red hair and piercing eyes sits and stares out at the viewer. The title of the work is taken from a poem by British poet Christina Rossetti, and the overall work shows many resemblances to English Pre-Raphaelite art.

Click here to read "Who shall deliver me," by Christina Rossetti
Isolation and introspection are the themes here, with a hint of hypnotism and the occult suggested by the bust of Hypnos and the small golden ornament hanging from a chain in front of the woman. Spiritualism and the use of mediums to contact the dead while in a hypnotic trance was extremely popular in the 1890s, and Khnopff may be alluding to the practice in this work.
-- Jeffery Howe

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A clearer definition of Art Nouveau...

stephenfitz-gerald — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:53:11 GMT

I just found one of the most edifying discussions about Art Nouveau by a curator from the Victoria and Albert Museum for a recent show at the National Gallery in Washington D.C.
I found the last few paragraphs most particularly illuminating,describing Art Nouveau as an emphatically CELEBRATORY style rather than based on critique and irony,as Post Modern Style is(and most of the subsequent styles of the 20th century SINCE art Nouveau for that matter).... I realize now that adjective ;"Celebratory" is one of the main reasons I resonate so strongly with the style and find it invigorating as compared to later styles which leave me depleted...
Here's the link to the interview and discussion:
http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/concept_paul.shtm

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"Arts for the Earth" Call to Artists

CIAO Gallery — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:33:47 GMT

CIAO gallery will be hosting our 1st annual a "Arts for the Earth", an arts exhibition celebrating our Earth. We have an open call to artists wishing to participate with art works created from recycled or found materials and or containing a "conservation" message. You can download a copy of the application on our website @ www.ciaogallery.com (under the calendar tab). Read through it then if you have questions, give us a call @ 307-733-7833 & it says the postmarked deadline is April 9th but we extended it until April 16th. Thanks
About us:
Ciao gallery is an artists cooperative that consists primarily of local artists who collaborate efforts to govern their own gallery. Ciao is home for many artists of varied backgrounds working in a diverse array of media. Ciao exhibits a full range of styles, from representational to the contemporary, in both two and three dimensions. Ciao is unique in that it provides a platform for local artists to exhibit their works. Also anyone can find what there looking for with such a diverse selection of works to choose from. Each month, Ciao gallery features the work of a single artist or a pair of artists from our cooperative, please check our website for upcoming events

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A Total Work Of Art

Michelle — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:06:24 GMT

I adore Art Nouveau for its subtle eroticism and sensual organicism with its whip-lash curves and idealised and stylised natural motifs. Art Nouveau was one of the last cohesive styles to evolve in the Western world and I love it for its all embracing aesthetic that permeated all fields of art and craft in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Art Nouveau was created in an era when people still valued refinement, beauty and quality (if not always functionality) over cheapness and bland corporate design.

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what is it we love about art nouveau?

Cat — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:16:50 GMT

I've loved art nouveau since childhood. My mother found that bewildering. She would say, 'But it's so grotesque!' And I would say, 'Yes, that's what I like about it.' For me it's an fascinating combination of beauty and a kind of ugliness that provides a richer appeal than mere prettiness. And the 'lines' in the architecture seem very friendly and living to me. What do others say?

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Art Nouveau and the Erotic (Hardcover) - by Ghislaine Wood (Author)

confetta — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:38:22 GMT

Art Nouveau and the Erotic (Hardcover)
by Ghislaine Wood (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Nouveau-Erotic-Ghislaine-Wood/dp/0810942135/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt/104-5768718-2689567

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The swirling sensuous forms of the Art Nouveau style are synonymous with the erotic. This provocative book, bursting with groundbreaking sensual images, shows how artists and designers from Aubrey Beardsley to Gustav Klimt explored and exploited the idea of the erotic in their creative endeavors.

Ghislaine Wood uses a wide range of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, photographs, and more-many from the superb collections of London's Victoria & Albert Museum-to illustrate the risqu, often shockingly explicit content of many works from a time of sexual license and decadent extravagance. Visually arresting and well-priced, this complement to the main exhibition catalogue is not only for lovers of Art Nouveau but also for the vast audience for books on erotic art.

GHISLAINE WOOD is assistant curator of the major exhibition on Art Nouveau at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and a contributor to the book Art Nouveau, 1890-1914. She lives in London.

80 illustrations, 60 in full color, 73/8 x 81/4
Product Details

* Hardcover: 96 pages
* Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (October 1, 2000)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0810942135
* ISBN-13: 978-0810942134

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tattoo

NtMagpie — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:08:10 GMT

I start my Art Nouveau inspired Valkyrie tattoo this week - he'll be doing the outline. 2 hour session. Cross your fingers that I can hold very still and be very stoic!

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WHO SHALL DELIVER ME?

confetta — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:23:32 GMT

Christina G. Rossetti, "Who shall deliver me?" from Poems, 1876:

WHO SHALL DELIVER ME?

God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear,
Inalienable weight of care.

All others are outside myself;
I lock my door and bar them out
The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.

I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?

If I could once lay down myself,
And start self-purged upon the race
That all must run ! Death runs apace.

If I could set aside myself,
And start with lightened heart upon
The road by all men overgone!

God harden me against myself,
This coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease and rest and joys

Myself, arch-traitor to mysel ;
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog whatever road I go.

Yet One there is can curb myself,
Can roll the strangling load from me
Break off the yoke and set me free

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Art Nouveaum (1880-1914)

confetta — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:18:04 GMT

Art Nouveaum
(1880-1914)
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/artnouveau.htm

Art Nouveau has made itself know and present from 1880s to 1910s. This movement walked under the flag of an art that would break all connections to classical times, and bring down the barriers between the fine arts and applied arts. Art Nouveau was more than a mere style. It was a way of thinking about modern society and new production methods. It was an attempt to redefine the meaning and nature of the work of art. From that time on, it was the duty of art not to overlook any everyday object, no matter how utilitarian it might be. This approach was considered completely new and revolutionary, thus the New Art - Art Nouveau name.
An artist should work on everything from architecture to furniture design so that art would become a part of everyday life. By making beauty and harmony a part of everyday life, artists make people's lives better. This approach has been represented in painting, architecture, furniture, glassware, graphic design, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles and sculpture. Advertising posters were welcomed into art, and fence has been proclaimed a suitable exhibition place for this new art. This was a sharp contrast to the traditional separation of art into the distinct categories of fine art (painting and sculpture) and applied arts (ceramics, furniture, and other practical objects).
Because of typical flat, decorative patterns used in all art forms, Art Nouveau obtained a nickname 'the noodle style' in French, 'Le style nouilles'. Visual standards of the Art Nouveau style are flat, decorative patterns, intertwined organic forms of stems or flowers. Art Nouveau emphasized handcrafting as opposed to machine manufacturing, the use of new materials. Although curving lines characterize Art Nouveau, right-angled forms are also typical, especially as the style was practiced in Scotland and in Austria. Typical for this style was artistic application of modern industrial techniques and modern materials (unmasked iron in architecture for example). Principal subjects are lavish birds and flowers, insects and polyformic femme fatale. Abstract lines and shapes are used widely as a filling for recognizable subject matter. Purposeful elimination of three-dimensions is often applied through reduced shading. Art Nouveau artifacts are beautiful objects of art, but not necessarily very functional.
Art Nouveau flourished in a number of European countries, many of which developed their own names for the style. Art Nouveau was known in France as style Guimard, after French designer Hector Guimard; in Italy as the stile Floreale (floral style); stile Liberty, after British Art Nouveau designer Arthur Lasenby Liberty; in Spain as Modernisme; in Austria as Sezessionstil (Vienna Secession); and in Germany as Jugendstil.
Art Nouveau had its deepest influence on a variety of art and design movements that continued to explore integrated design, including De Stijl, a Dutch design movement in the 1920s, and the German Bauhaus school in the 1920s and 1930s.

Main Representatives:

Art Nouveau in Britain
Walter Crane
Arthur Mackmurdo
Arthur Lasenby Liberty
Charles Ashbee
Aubrey Beardsley
Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Art Nouveau Belgian, Swiss and Franch -

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Alphonse Mucha
Victor Horta
Henry van de Velde
Hector Guimard

Art Nouveau in Spain -

Antoni Gaudi
Art Nouveau in Austria
Gustav Klimt
Koloman Moser
Josef Hoffmann

Art Nouveau in Germany-

Hermann Obrist
August Endell

Art Nouveau in United States -

Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati
Tiffany Studios of New York City
Louis Sullivan

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THE KISS OF THE SPHINX: Art Nouveau and Symbolism in Belgium

confetta — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:11:12 GMT

http://www.ba-ca-kunstforum.at/en/exhibitions/preview/30

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Art Nouveau & the Erotic...

confetta — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:51:16 GMT

Art Nouveau & the Erotic
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/periods_styles/19thcentury/art_nouveau_erotic/index.html

The erotic nature of many Art Nouveau works is one of the most prevalent features of the style. Nowhere is it more abundantly seen than in small-scale sculptural or decorative arts objects such as ink-wells, carafes, centrepieces, candelabra, lamps and figurines - the kind of objects that were disseminated widely and could be brought into any middle-class household. The eroticism of these objects is made all the more complex by their utility and domesticity. They often demand physical engagement: furniture or carafes where the handles are naked women that must be grasped; vessels that metamorphose into women inviting touch; lamps that provocatively pose women in suggestive positions. These erotically charged objects, unlike most sculpture, demand contact.

The theme of objects fulfilling a sexual need was not a new one, although it found particular resonance in the fin de siècle. In Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, Severin describes his lust for an inanimate sculpture of Venus: 'I love her madly, passionately with a feverish intensity, as one can only love a woman who responds to one with a petrified smile. Often at night I pay a visit to my cold, cruel beloved; clasping her knees, I press my face against her cold pedestal and worship her'. The de Goncourt brothers wrote of the erotic fascination of their Rococo objects, developing an overtly sexual and torturous relationship with them: Jules recorded his dreams of 'raping a delicate young woman who resembled one of his rococo porcelain figurines. Edmond wrote of caressing his Clodion statuette as if her stomach and neck had the touch of real skin'. The fetishistic concentration on the erotic potential of the object is implicit in much Art Nouveau.

Although many Art Nouveau objects were mildly erotic, some were much more direct and in some instances pornographic. Rupert Carabin produced some of the most explicit objects of the period. His chair of 1898 plays with the physical restraint of the body. A bound female is made to support and envelope a presumably male user. It is a vision of erotic subjugation that is powerfully disturbing. Some objects, such as Max Blondat's door knocker designed for a Parisian brothel, employ a more humorous symbolism. The knocker, a nude female figure, like that in Carabin's chair has a specific use. She peers into the interior of the brothel while simultaneously signifying the pleasures to be obtained within. Many Art Nouveau decorative arts objects manipulated the female body to create different and often playful symbolic narratives.

The scale of the production and dissemination of these kinds of objects denoted a widespread 'taste for the erotic', not only among upper-class and aristocratic collectors of the more explicit and expensive objects, but also by the middle classes, concerned to achieve the height of modern decorative style in their homes. During this period the erotic briefly came to denote the modern.
Selling Sex

The end of the century saw the advent of mass advertising. Chromolithography as an artistic medium provided possibilities for mass communication that printers and artists were quick to take advantage of. Perhaps the most crucial development for advertising in the 20th century was the realisation that the successful advertisement sold an idea or lifestyle rather than a product - and sex sold products better than anything else. Just as the promise of sex could fill the theatres of Paris, so sex could sell anything from cigarettes and cars to painting and poetry. The erotic content in Art Nouveau advertising ranged from the subtle to the explicit. Designers did not just aim to sell the promise of sexual fulfillment to a male audience, but also, and extremely significantly, they were selling the idea of a sophisticated, decorative and glamorous identity to women - increasingly the dominant consumers. As it was women who often held the domestic purse strings, it was they who came to be associated with shopping.

Many Art Nouveau poster designers used a veiled but highly charged eroticism and none more successfully than Alphonse Mucha, who created images of woman that epitomised the sophisticated and decorative Art Nouveau woman. His posters commodifed women, making them the ultimate symbol of the modern consumer world. His strategy of combining women with products sold a lifestyle dream, just as lifestyle became an issue for a growing metropolitan middle class with a disposable income. Many designers used women to sell products. Gallen-Kallela's poster Bil-bol takes the eroticism of Art Nouveau advertising one step further. This advertisement for a car dealer makes the promise of sexual fulfillment explicit: in an adaptation of a traditional Finnish folk story, a naked woman is violently snatched and restrained. Sex is forcibly imposed in the Kallela poster, whereas Leo Putz's woman in Moderne Galerie seems to offer sex in a playful and surprisingly modern way. The idiom of Putz's woman is that of the Bond girl. Putz in fact produced explicit erotic material, as did a number of prominent Art Nouveau graphic artists such as Fritz Erier and Aubrey Beardsley.

Although predominant, erotic imagery in advertising did not always focus on the female body. The perfect male body emerged in many images of the period, most often when the subject-matter demanded a 'serious' approach. Traditional gender divides were reinforced through the symbolic use of male and female imagery. Women's capacities were traditionally perceived as being for pleasure and instinct, with men's for action and intellect. Designers often used the male body to promote industry and technology, while the female body was used for product and entertainment. The Italian designer Marcello Dudovich's poster Fisso l'idea employs the muscularity and erotic potential of the male figure to promote ink and pigments. Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Gustav Klimt and Adolf Munzer all created images that used the male body to denote virility and action. These images, although not overtly erotic, sit within and promote the Classical homoerotic 'cult' of the male.
Homoeroticism and Androgyny

The fin de siècle not only witnessed the formation of various constructions of female sexuality, but also the crystallisation of attitudes towards male sexuality. The Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 were tremendously significant, spectacularly bringing the reality of homosexuality into the open. For some, Wilde became a martyr, a pivotal figure around whom homosexual identity was formed, while for others he became the symbol of unhealthy decadence. Decadence had become increasingly associated with non-conformity, and sexuality was perceived as another area for experimentation. As J.K. Huysmans' description of a homosexual encounter in A Rebours reveals, sexuality was not fixed:

'They gazed at each other for a moment; then the young man dropped his eyes and came closer, brushing his companion's arm with his own. Des Esseintes slackened his pace, taking thoughtful note of the youth's mincing walk. And from this chance encounter there had sprung a mistrustful friendship that somehow lasted for months. Des Esseintes could not think of it without a shudder. Never had he known such satisfaction mingled with distress.'

Art Nouveau's association with decadence in the public mind undoubtedly contributed to the rejection of the style in the new century.

Homoeroticism within Art Nouveau, although present, was often sublimated. The classical world provided a precedent for the study of the beauty of male youth, and artists often used classical subjects and titles to disguise open homoerotic depiction. Photography became a particularly rich area for homoerotic depiction in the period. Works by Baron von Gloedon and Fred Holland Day concentrated on representing the nude male body, both adult and child, often in erotic poses. An important element in homoerotic depiction was androgyny. Androgyny provided a vehicle free from restrictive gender codes and often allowing disturbing messages to be conveyed. Many fin de siècle artists used the androgyne to represent the resolution of what Octave Uzanne called the 'eternal misery of the body fretted by the soul'. The androgyne could be both man and woman, adult or child, and became the ultimate fin de siècle enigmatic erotic symbol, simultaneously denying sex and providing endless erotic possibilities. Sar Piladan, leader of the Symbolist Rose+Croix group, described the androgyne as the 'nightmare of decadence', 'the sex that denies sex, the sex of eternity'.

Art Nouveau style was short-lived, collapsing finally in the years prior to the First World War. The erotic content of so many Art Nouveau objects was undoubtedly a significant factor in its demise. The fundamental subversiveness of eroticism, its disregard for conventional morality or social structures, was recognised as a destabilising factor across the ideological spectrum. Both socialist International Modernism and conservative historicism ignored the exploration of sexuality, deliberately pushing it to the periphery of art and design debates. Functionality and technological progression came to signify modernity, dominating the new century's design agenda, while the unadulterated use of historical styles once more signalled stability. However, although absent from the male-dominated sphere of Bauhaus or Le Corbusian functionalism, the erotic could not entirely be eradicated. Its reappearance in Surrealism and Art Deco demonstrates the power of the erotic to explore, simultaneously, the body and mind.

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Alphonse Mucha travelling exhibition in Stockholm

Bobster — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:28:41 GMT

Hej,

I know most Tribesters are based in North America (and mainly on the west coast), but if you happening to be in Sweden then have a look at the Mucha exhibition at the Dance Museum. It's quite extensive, mainly his theatre posters, but also photographs, set designs and other things. I didn't get to see all of it as I had only a few hours left in Sweden before the museum's director pointed out the exhibition wasn't open as yet and that it was press day. He did tell me that it's touring Prague amongst other places before tossing me out into the snow (despite protestations that my magazine and radio work made me a journo), so if you're in Europe have a look.

Take care,

Bobster

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antiques

anime — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:24:55 GMT

I was Googling Foxglove images when I stumbled on this site:
http://www.titusomega.com/Site/archive.htm

The stuff is way too expensive for me, but perhaps for you.....
anyway, the pics are amazing.

^-^

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Kitty Diggins presents Dandy -A Frolic by the Sea

Sister Diggins — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:58:35 GMT

Dandy -A Frolic by the Sea !
Thursday August 10 2006

Mermaids, Sailors, Pirates ,Gibson Girls, and of course Dandies!

We are bringing the Sea to you !

Now you can leave behind the three piece attire for once!

This is a call for you to get out those mid thigh one piece bathing suits, sailor attire , Striped boating jackets white trousers!

We will be turning back to the days of the Bristish Music Hall , Songs of the Sea ,and Bathing Beauties!

Our very special featured performer will be the fabulously talented Kitten on the Keys from San Francisco!

She will tinkle her ivories and strum the ukelele and amuse and delight you with songs of mermaids ,sailors and so on.

Our Special guest DJ's will be Howie Pyro ( Green Door , Jackie 60, TeaBag etc) and Sir Christof is playing 78's on the Victrola and the wax cylinder.

( DJ music will be 0f the teens and 20's)

Magic Lantern show !

Mz.Diggins,Sir D'Andy Luxe and Prince Poppycock will be there as always to primp and prep your busy little bodies in the direction of Exotic isles ,and languid Visions.

Safari Sams 5214 W.Sunset Blvd Hollywood Ca 90027 323-666SAMS

10:00 pm 7.00 in costume 10.00 if not

18 and over

Absinthe served upstairs Free parking Full dining menu

www.kittydiggins.com

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art nouveau e-cards

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:40:13 GMT

Though the selection of images isn't that wide, and you can't personalize backgrounds, text fonts or the like, Dover Publications has an "Art Nouveau" category of e-cards at:

http://dovercards.com/Posters/Art%2520Nouveau/Art%2520Nouveau.html

A nice little freebie on the web!

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Victor Horta

Robin_D — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:14:52 GMT

Victor Horta was an architect who designed many art nouveau buildings, many in Brussels. I just visited his home-turned-museum a week ago and it was really something. I might scan a postcard and post it here. They have a lot of fine art nouveau style buildings in Brussels which was a nice surprise. I'm more into the architecture side of the movement, although I really like the fine art as well.

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art nouveau tattoo

Nierika — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:51:13 GMT

Hi,

I'm thinking about getting an art nouveau tattoo. Does anybody here have experience with this, or sites where I can look at some examples? (I would like to incorporate an old pentagram tattoo into the art nouveau one)

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aya kato

anime — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:11:44 GMT

I just discovered her work, and I love it!

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-11,GGLD:en&q=aya%20kato&sa=N&tab=wi

I posted 1 pic in the photo album, that I had discovered on someone's profile pics.

^-^

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i am doing an essay on how art nouveau inspired the designs of laliques jewellery

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:05:44 GMT

could anyone help? on good websites? good info? anything? would be much appreciated
myia

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Art Nouveau in 3 Words

mi8xtress — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:09:33 GMT

If you just had to choose 3...

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your favorites?

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:40:39 GMT

Have an all time favorite nouveau artist you want to mention? A painting that is so beautiful you want to share it with us all? I posted a couple pictures in the album, feel free to do the same!

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architectural digest

filigree00 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:02:45 GMT

The current issue has a spread on a house in New York designed around the AN style. It features an elliptical staircase, furniture--both period and custom, stained glass, and some interesting fireplace surrounds. Just thought I'd share. :)

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gaudi jewelry

kapaali — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:41:22 GMT

check out this website. most of their other stuff is crap, but the gaudi jewelry section is awesome.

http://www.moonstone-jewelry.com/antoni-gaudi-jewelry.html

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tattoos

filigree00 — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:33:56 GMT

I've been wanting to get one or two Art Nouveau style tattoos for a very long time. When I was first interested, I was told the work was too detailed for the needle sizes, though I'm guessing I'd just need to find an artist who's more experienced with small detail. I'm certain nowadays that many have gotten AN tattoos, and am curious if anyone here has and what you got/how it worked out for you.

One I've been wanting is available in the Dover AN books--it's a winged, androgynous looking person crouching down amidst some thorny vines with a halo. I want it on my lower back. Another is a woman in a victorian-ish striped dress sitting side saddle on a zebra. Not sure where I'd put that yet. The borders alone would make some really nice decorative tattoos as well, though I haven't considered that for myself.

I'm sure some may think it's just tacky but I've always loved AN styles and felt they'd be an interesting translation onto flesh. I'm curious to hear what others think about this subject as well.

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esther sanchez

mr_skid — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:21:50 GMT

hello fellow lovers of art nouveau... I recently came across a site for a modern artist working in an art noveau influenced style and I wanted to share it with you. Her name is Esther Sanchez and she has some examples of her work up at www.esthersanchez.com. Great lines and beautiful fluidity... I just wish that there were more examples here!!

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film about Klimt

filigree00 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:34:03 GMT

Just thought I would share there's going to be a film out on Gustav Klimt's life, starring John Malkovich.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/

It's in post-production now.

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Dragons any one ?

inkylady — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:11:57 GMT

I am planning on my next tattoo , and would like a dragon , so I am on the look out for one / some in the art nouveu style .
if any one comes across any could you give me a shout Please

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Designing my own art nouveau/symbolist tapestries

VictorianGoverness — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:54:16 GMT

I'm currently working on a large project that may become a small business:
If any of you have any ideas of what would translate nicely into needlepoint or cross-stitch, let me know! I'm looking for designs that don't have toooo much shading and are fairly geometric with strong, clean lines. I've already converted one of Mackintosh's roses from a stained glass design. Any ideas or links to pics would be much appreciated!!! I really love William Morris, Aubrey Beardsley and Mackintosh.

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austin osmond spare

naiaddy_fae — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:52:34 GMT

i really love all nouveau style art......my favorites are the same as yours.......however, spare seems to be the hidden or forgotten member of this era.........it's so difficult to track down the really twisted examples of his work....when i can find something on the net it's always really poor quality.... i can't seem to find any reproductions of his work in book or poster form....i have heard that his original books are so rare they are worth a fortune ....that is why nothing has been re-issued...nobody can get an original copy.....is this true? .....do you have any examples of his work? or know any sites i can check out?.... thanks, naiaddy

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Mucha Murals Locally

gangsterboyscout — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:39:17 GMT

...well, local if you live in the east SF bay area in any case. :^D

My favorite pretentious street corner coffee joint making a stand against corporate coffee has nearly completed 5 15-20 ft tall Mucha reproductions inside the shop. They're actually quite good!
Bay St. Coffee on the corner of Bay st and Washington in the Irvington district of Fremont. Tall red brick building covered in ivy. The interior also sports pillars and nouveau pale green tiles in the ceiling. The building is from the 1890's. Nice back patio with jazz piped outside. It's well worth the extra 5¢.

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art nouveau stained glass?

ariana — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:51:35 GMT

Hi all,

I'm new here. Does anyone have recommendations for good books or other resources for art nouveau stained glass pieces? I'm thinking about modeling my next tattoos on stained glass, and I *heart* art nouveau design. In fact, all of my current tattoos are art nouveau inspired (sorry I don't have better pics in my profile to show, but you can see little bits if you look hard). I'm also toying around with the idea of Frank Lloyd Wright glass designs, but I'm still definitely in the looking-around phase. Thanks!

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organic & sacred forms tribe...!

meldrc — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:01:39 GMT

new tribe on tribe.net...

organic & sacred forms

--If your own visionary experiences have had a quality of the sacred about them
-- if they have left you attributing a heightened sense of meaning to the aesthetic dimension
- perhaps remembering certain vegetal forms, certain 'animate' shapes, respirating jewel-forms or the like - as intrinsic elements of a peak experience
-- & w/ increased awareness of these elements as they occur - or are completely lacking!- in your contemporary environment

please join us! join the discussion re: the significance of these peak experiences, the human responsiveness to organic forms of beauty, the aesthetic dimension of spiritual experience -- & the implications of these sorts of experiences for our daily lifestyles & environments!!

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furniture

kapaali — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:46:43 GMT

This link may appeal to some of you. Check out the chandeliers, especially.

http://www.aquagallery.com/Catalog.php?TypeID=2

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Long time - First time...

gangsterboyscout — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:29:52 GMT

Hello friends, I just wanted to tip my hat to fellow fans of my absolute favorite style. I grew up in the bay area and as a small child have vivid memories of Mucha posters hanging on walls as I peered through beaded doorways while Grand Funk Railroad echoed through the house. I always thought the women were stunning and the fluidity of the style mesmerized me... but then maybe it was the 2nd hand pot smoke. Nonetheless over the years I made it my mission to create an atmosphere in my home that mirrored the feeling I had as a kid back in 1969, sans patchouli but with the same warmth, sensuality and sense that you wanted to take your shoes off, and admire. So I've collected some 20 pieces, mostly his ad work but also some theme pieces throughout my house. I even managed to pull off a gemini tattoo with the twins done as two Mucha-inspired women intertwined.
Just had to share that and say hi.

Enjoy!
Neil

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TRIBE! symbolist / fin de siecle

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:02:04 GMT

Hello, I am very pleased that so many of you have joined the art nouveau tribe. I've created a symbolist art tribe http://symbolistart.tribe.net/ and hope you will join. thanks!
Kimberly

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Vienna

Robin_D — Mon, 03 May 2004 10:57:02 GMT

I'm going to Vienna this weekend. Any suggestions on Art Nouveau treasures to see there?

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Would anyone be willing...

Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:38:01 GMT

...to design two art nouveau-inspired tattoos for me? :)

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Re: Just posted new pic....

silent_knight — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:20:53 GMT

Hello all, just posted a new pic on the 2nd page of this tribe. It's a new Mucha Influenced Headdress I recently created. Thought it would fit since obvious Art Nouveau style.
Thanks for looking.
~Dark Muse & Eyescream Jewelry~

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mail art

jasmine — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:35:23 GMT

i am in the process of sending out 250 postcards, with the hopes of return... altered in any artistic manor or creative whim. i have a little gallery interested in showing the results. Hopefully ill post a gallery on the web, too.
If anyone would like to be included in this...email me an address and you'll receive a postcard and directions via the US mail shortly...
the name of this thing is "all on the outside" and the postcard has a small gray square on it.... that is all.
-jaz
allontheoutside@hotmail.com

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quick plug

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:52:18 GMT

I just wanted to say that I created a NEW TRIBE for local small-scale artists (or art lovers) that would like to present there work (and or talk about it). I know there are many art tribes already, but many of them are huge and difficult to get noticed (or a say in). This tribe welcomes any form of art (poetry and music are all encouraged).

come show your talent for free

At:

Poor Man's Art Show
poormansartshow.tribe.net (you know the drill)

Hope to see you there!!!!!

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I am new here

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:26:45 GMT

I love the whole era the turn of the century was a great surging time with refreshing changes in all aspect designing . architecture .. fashion.. Styles .. lifestyles .. music literature ... ALL NEW !!! ART NOVO WAS for everything new not only visual Images
It was a ebulient great surge full of opening doors .. even feminism had the roots suddenly growing .

All was destroyed with the WARTIMES and incredible stupidness of a few but powerful men.. SHAME.. and sadness folowed and ART NOVO FADED ..

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mucha fonts

Ox Ix — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:33:25 GMT

i'm looking for free mucha fonts to use for my wedding invitations, i really don't want to pay $40 for one font. anyone know of any? thx

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Art Nouveau in SF

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:36:05 GMT

someone talk to me about art nouveau in sf, where is the archetecture (if any) and does anyone know about any art shows coming up?

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What a Period of Art

Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:16:22 GMT

Totally Glad to find this tribe. When I was doing my student teaching this past fall (I'm going to be an art teacher), I did lessons that incorporated Klimt, Maillol, and Mucha. It's important to open up students minds to artists other than Manet or Van gogh. Anyway, I'm always game to talk art. i have a show with my paintings coming up in a few months. Some of my works are posted. Talk to you soon.

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Mucha Icons

kristinbreaux — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:26:52 GMT

I've made a few Mucha icons that I use on livejournal. They're 100x100 pixels.

If you're curious, you can see them here:

http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=wyldkyss

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My favourite

mona — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:12:38 GMT

Edmond Francois Aman-Jean

La Confidence
1903
oil-canvas

I was in love with him. Too bad I'm a century too late.

And anything by Gaudi.

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