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Have you ever been inspired to style a look that reflects your favourite painting?
Here are some examples of what you can do ...



“Woman with a Red Necklace” by Amedeo Modigliani
Oil on canvas, 1918, Private Collection

“Setting Sun” by Egon Schiele
Oil on canvas, 1913

“Argenteuil” by Édouard Manet
Oil on canvas, 1875

“The Boss’ Daughter” by Paul Gauguin
Oil on canvas, 1886

And then this is an example of actually doing it...

“Painting Number 9, Composition with Black, White, Yellow and Red” by Piet Mondrian

Oil on canvas, 1939-42

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Following on from my post yesterday, here is another look at Art, Ferris Bueller style.

The following is found in Wiki...

Institute of Chicago

According to Hughes, the scene at the Art Institute of Chicago was "a self-indulgent scene of mine—which was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it. I knew all the paintings, the building. This was a chance for me to go back into this building and show the paintings that were my favorite." The museum had not been shot in, until the producers of the film approached them.^[7] "I remember Hughes saying, 'There are going to be more works of art in this movie than there have ever been before,'" recalled Jennifer Grey.^[5]
Art featured in the sequence includes:

• Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
• Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte
• Improvisation 30 (Cannons) by Wassily Kandinsky
• Painting With Green Center by Kandinsky
• Nude Under Pine Tree by Pablo Picasso
• L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti
• The Old Guitarist by Picasso
• The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt
• Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz by Amedeo Modigliani
• Day of the Gods (Mahana No Atua) by Paul Gauguin
• Greyed Rainbow by Jackson Pollock
• Tanktotem No. 1 by David Smith
• Bathers by a River by Henri Matisse
• In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Portrait of Balzac by Auguste Rodin
• The Red Armchair by Picasso
• Portrait of Sylvette David by Picasso
• Seated Woman by Picasso
• UNESCO Reclining Figure by Henry Moore
• America Windows by Marc Chagall

"And then this picture (Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte), which I always thought this painting was sort of like making a movie," explained Hughes.^[7] "A pointillist style, which at very very close to it, you don't have any idea what you've made until you step back from it. I used it in this context to see that he's (Cameron) looking at that little girl. Again, it's a mother and child. The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. Of course, with this style of painting. Or any style of painting really. But the more he looks at, there's nothing there. I think he fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isn't anything there. That's him."^[7]

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A history of art

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Now Then Whenever

Books to take on a desert island, just missing 2...

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Bathrooms

Back on Bathrooms again. This time more on the wall/floor features.

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Iris Apfel, the 88-year-old fashion icon, designer and self-professed "geriatric starlet" has her apartment in this month's Architectural Digest. Iris says, taste you can learn....but style is like charisma. What do you think?

Events

Getting older....

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Getting ready...

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Now Then Whenever - Music

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Now Then Whenever - Inspire

Getting older can be fun (maybe?)...just watch this...

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Bathrooms

Here are some of my favourite bathrooms with colour...

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Home - Feature (Tartan)

Would you put tartan (or plaid) in your place today?
Following on from my post the other day, I think I found some worthy contenders.

Tartan on the chairs...

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Tartan on the walls.

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Tartan on the floors...

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On the windows....

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Tartan on the beds..

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Tartan or Plaid...

Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns. (Tartan is also known as plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder, or a blanket.)