For the past few months we’ve been staring a lot at Albert Bierstadt’s painting, Valley of the Yosemite, the painting we chose to show on our picture frame television. The other night, my husband and I started to talk about the painting, and it got me going onto Google to find out more information. Bierstadt… Read more »
Let’s Talk Art
Really enjoyed this article from 2021 about surface pattern designer Susie Zuzek, who designed all of the 1960s Lily Pulitzer clothing line. It left me inspired by Zuzek’s use of bright colors and bold patterns. Let’s go back to this sort of designing. Bright patterns of color on clothing and housewares. These patterns made me… Read more »
Art Talk (Do It For the Process)
Marimekko. The illustrious clothing and housewares company started 70 years ago in Finland has now become synonymous with supercool, retro, and spare style. Co-founder Armi Rata branded the company based on her personal and professional ethos: bohemia and culture. I can’t get enough of Marimekko’s most famous poppy inspired Unikko print and have it on… Read more »
Do It For the Process, Art Talk
What can we say about the history of abstract art? It’s been a part of our DNA from before there was history. Marks left on pottery and on the walls of caves were not only representative of real-life animals or humans, but often were “simple, geometric, and linear forms that had a symbolic or decorative… Read more »
Let’s Talk Art: Hilma af Klint
Throughout much of 2022, I poured over art books, especially featuring women artists who create abstract work: Georgia O’Keefe, Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Sonia Delaunay, Judi Chicago, Mary Cassatt, and Hilma af Klint. An aside: Do you know the name Lee Krasner? Probably not. She married Jackson Pollock in 1942 and he was her… Read more »