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Photos of Original 1940s hand rendered Costume Jewelry Illustrations. Illustrator unknown Enjoy
Queen Billie 1947….
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Late Night Mood , perusing favorite illustrators in this case Bill Donovan and listening to Dilla homages.
Bills sketches of Black Woman are just gorgeous , litterally i can envision these women in waking life.
Bill works in watercolor and gouache , he is artist in residence for Christian Dior. To add to this hectic schecule Bil is the author of Advanced Fashion Drawing / Lifestyle Illustration and has illustrated a number of books including The Dress Doctor, from the original by costume designer Edith Head and Birds of a Feather Shop Together, a collection of fashion fables, both for Harper Collins and more recently, The Pursuit of Style for the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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Indigenous First People of the Americas Mask Art
Two Wolves – A Cherokee Parable“ An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life…
‘A fight is going on inside me,’ he said to the boy.
‘It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.
The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy,
generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
This same fight is going on inside you
and inside every other person, too.’
The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather,
‘Which wolf will win?’
The old chief simply replied,
‘The one you feed.”We all wear masks since the begining of time . Today’s masks consist of ‘Brands and snap chat filters
Edward S. Curtis often asked natives to recreate their ceremonies wearing traditional garb so he could capture them on camera.
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Color Mood…..
“I believe that something else, the substance of your spirit, stays incorporated in the work. The work is made to transmit emotion. The starting point of the artist, if they are figurative, is the world. … The material with which you work is the objective world, but you incorporate some of your soul, and that is art.” Antonio Lopez
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Mama Casset is a male Senegalese Photographer , who once in oblivion after blindness claimed his eyes
From the age of 12, Mama Casset learned photography with the French Oscar Lataque in Dakar then at the end of primary school he worked for Tennequin’s AOF Photographic Counter. It was in the French Air Force where he honed his talent by producing aerial photographs.
Mama Casset opened his private studio “African Photo” in the Medina in Dakar At the end of the Second World War,
Mama Casset was not content photographing bourgeoisie of Dakar, instead he produced a work which he describes as artistic. his muse and main model was his second wife.
Looking at a Mama Casset picture is to feel- the tchouraïs -, the back laughter or sadness, fortitude or weakness, sensuality. Mama Casset hunted for rare set pieces populated with staged very structured characters frequently shot in a diagonal tight frame , highlighting the expression of body position hands, eyes, place given to the costume, .
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