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22.01.2022 A little selection of camp decorative works by Romain de Tirtoff (1892 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known as Erté, (from the French pro...nunciation of his initials) Born into an aristocratic family in St. Petersburg on Nov. 23, 1892, Erte was attracted to the theater and at one point wavered between becoming a dancer or an artist. But eventually, he recalled years later, I came to the conclusion that I could live without dancing but could not give up my passion for painting and design. In 1912, he moved to Paris and collaborated briefly with the fashion designer Paul Poiret. Moving on to the theater, he designed costumes for an exotic young dancer named Mata Hari, who would be shot as a spy for the Germans in 1917. Performers from Sarah Bernhardt to Anna Pavlova would wear his costumes. Between 1915 and 1937 he designed hundreds of covers for the monthly fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar. His highly stylized designs of sinuous women draped in beads and furs helped define fashion for a generation. His work would also appear in Vogue, the Illustrated London News, Cosmopolitan and Ladies’ Home Journal. Between the two World Wars, his elaborate stage and costume designs were in much demand for operas, theater and ballets in Paris, Monte Carlo, New York, Chicago and Glyndebourne, but perhaps most memorably for music hall productions, which was enormously popular at the time. Erté also designed the most over-the-top extravagant costumes and stage sets for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Erté has often been called the Father of Art Deco, the style that came into vogue internationally in the 1920’s. Erté defined it as a fusion of the curvilinear designs of Art Nouveau of the 19th Century with the Cubist, Constructivist, and geometrical designs of modernity. He was also influenced by Persian miniatures and would often use a brush with a single hair to complete his gouache paintings. His imagination was limitless, and Erté designed costumes, stage sets, jewelry, objet d'art, sculpture and ceramics. By far, his best known image is Symphony in Black, depicting a tall, slender woman draped in black holding a thin black dog on a leash. The influential image has been reproduced and copied countless times. (Last pic) Erté carried on working until his death in 1990, at the age of 97. Click on pics..
22.01.2022 La Mirada Amadeo Modigliani,1884-1920
22.01.2022 Good morning gardeners! Spring is turning it on in WA with native Chorizema cordatum aka Heart-leaf Flame Pea! What's blooming in your neighbourhood this week? by Chéri Bredenkamp | @cherib3
21.01.2022 The origin of the term "Tree hugger" The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while try...ing to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters. But their action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village. And now those villages are virtual wooded oases amidst an otherwise desert landscape. Not only that, the Bishnois inspired the Chipko movement (chipko means to cling in Hindi) that started in the 1970s, when a group of peasant women in the Himalayan hills of northern India threw their arms around trees designated to be cut down. Within a few years, this tactic, also known as tree satyagraha, had spread across India, ultimately forcing reforms in forestry and a moratorium on tree felling in Himalayan regions. Photo: The village women of the Chipko movement in the early 70's in the Garhwal Hills of India, protecting the trees from being cut down.
21.01.2022 Miniature neddle lace artwork by Agnes Herczeg https://www.agnesherczeg.com/
19.01.2022 Via Stamatina Tamvaki. The famous Italian diver Enzo Mallorca dived into the hot sea of Syracuse and talked to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. R...eady to sink, he felt something slightly hit in the back. I turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that he did not want to play but to express something. The animal dived and Enzo followed. At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Mallorca quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives. Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the forces, emerged, issued an "almost human cry" (describes Mallorca). A dolphin can withstand underwater for up to 10 minutes, then drown. The released dolphin that is still surprised was controlled by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. Then came the surprise: It was a dolphin, which soon gave birth to a puppy. The male circled them and, standing in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and left. Enzo Mallorca ended his speech by saying: "Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth." Vangelis. See more
19.01.2022 Frank Xavier Leyendecker(1876-1924) American Cover illustration for Life Magazine 1922
18.01.2022 It's the truth!
17.01.2022 It's difficult to find the right words at a moment like this. As Jews across the country began to usher in 5781, the devastating news broke that Ruth Bader Gins...burg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died at age 87. Ruth was fierce fighter for gender equality, an unlikely fashion icon, and a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. We will miss her dearly and we know you will, too. May her memory be a blessing and inspire us to fight for a better world. See more
17.01.2022 The Helical Spiral Staircase of the Vatican Museum, Created by the Engineer Giuseppe Momo, Inaugurated in the Year 1932: Vatican City State Rome Italy: Giuseppe Momo: b.1875-1940:
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15.01.2022 L'albero ha deciso di iniziare una nuova vita! #erbesalus #piante #foresta #curiosità #natura #meravigliedellanatura #animali #viveregreen #dintorni #saluteenatura #spettacolodellanatura #forma #stranezze #fiori
11.01.2022 Knocking on wood actually comes from the belief that every tree is inhabited by a spirit known as Hamadryad or Dryad. The action of knocking was practiced by an...cient priests to immediately summon this spirit to aid the Priest or Priestess in order to ward off evil or fulfill a wish. So the next time you knock on wood, remember that you are actually summoning the Spirits of the Tree. See more
09.01.2022 Glass flower installation by Dale Chihuly at the Kew Gardens.
09.01.2022 Josephine Baker, Paris ca. 1930s
08.01.2022 ABSOLUTE BEAUTY
07.01.2022 Клара фон Сиверс/Крюгер/ (1854-1924)- немецкий художник Натюрморт с черешней
06.01.2022 Stunning colours We love this shot of a scarlet honeyeater perched on a vibrant red bottlebrush. What's in bloom at your place right now? ... : Tasman Hayes Photography
06.01.2022 I can not Live, With out , My Mother.
06.01.2022 Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. Claude Monet Monet in his garden, 1905.
05.01.2022 This is the "Twin Poplar" of Western North Carolina, where two Indian tribes made a peace treaty by binding two tulip poplars together before the American Revolution.
05.01.2022 Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Kahlil Gibran Santiago Rusiñol - Avenue of Plane Trees, 1916.
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