Inspiration (January 2005 - April 2010)

[Crying Diamonds]

I'm loving Steven Klein's work right now; I relate to it a lot.
The models often look mechanical and have a very honest deliberately staged look which greatly contrasts to the sex often depicted in his photographs.

 

[Barbizon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JH3O4HSs7g

 

[Gincat]

Cy Twombly for his visions of color, his looseness, and confidence. metro.co.uk, artnet.com, nyt.com

 

[ChloeFrancoise]

www.19thcenturypost.com

I'd like to have more to post but I can't id all of the paintings I saw today and can't remember all of the painters. I should have had something to write it down.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Manet's work always has an almost dreamlike atmosphere. It's fantastic.

 

[Gincat]

I recently saw the Edvard Munch exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and it is fantastic! They have a lot of his woodblock prints in their archive that they don't ususally show and they were great.
artnet.com, dev.laptop.org

 

[Mary-Anne]

^ wow, love the one on the left. thankyou!

 

[Gincat]

You're welcome!

 

[StellaMare]

I've been seeing a lot of Robert Bresson films lately and I find them very inspiring.. The clothes remind me of A.P.C. today, some pieces they sell are practically identical to things I've seen in Bresson films.. quite funny.

community.livejournal.com/film_stills/

 

[classicalbang]

^ Love those. The clothes are very APC.

I've only seen A Man Escaped, but I would love to see more of Bresson's films. Are the stills you posted from Au hasard Balthazar?

 

[StellaMare]

Yes, those two are from Balthazar. It's a beautiful film. I would also recommend 'Mouchette'.. now that is practially a 80-minute long A.P.C. ad before A.P.C. even existed

 

[Gincat]

This makes me want to get on the road.
artinfo.com

 

[from: sophia]

Spiders I dont know how they are inspiring me but they are.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ Love the Fate sign ... why have I never yet seen one IRL??

 

[gius]

i love the Munch woodcut too

 

[StellaMare]

Photography by Francesca Woodman.. She was so young and talented.

flickr.com/speaking4lines | wikipedia

 

[GasolineRainbow]

^Those photos...no words. I'd never heard of Woodman before. Just spent the best part of the last hour reading more on her. Right now I strangely feel listless, because mention of suicide always distresses me, and sated, because of her work.

Have I mentioned how much I love this thread?

 

[gius]

gasolinerainbow we have a thread on her in A&D
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f81/francesca-woodman-photographer-57095.html

 

[GasolineRainbow]

Now you've gone too far, Gius. Keep these hidden treasures to yourself next time. As if I didn't spend too much time on TFS already. Hmpf.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ Those are amazing photographs I'm glad my house isn't haunted, I'd be seeing that guy in my wallpaper