jeudi 29 avril 2010

Elfi Cella "Miniaturiste"

Cruche en Étain 1647 Pieter Claesz
Pieter Claesz 1646
Jean-Michel Picart (1653)
Quel talent!!!allez vite découvrir le blog de Elfi Cella
Robert Fagan,
'Portrait of Lady as Hibernia'
Le comte de Montesquiou de Giovanni Boldini "Un peintre que j'aime particulièrement...."
"...Si le dandy fut une invention du XIXe siècle, Robert de Montesquiou en fut certainement, en France, le type le plus accompli. Aristocrate et esthète, il organisa son autocélébration avec un talent raffiné et posa pour de multiples portraits : ce nouveau Narcisse voulait rendre son image immortelle. Véritable personnage de roman par ses extravagances, il inspira Huysmans et surtout Proust qui fit de lui le modèle du baron Charlus...."
Nicolas hilliard 1575
d'après Jacob Van Ruisdael

lundi 26 avril 2010

Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997)

Une pensée pour Elfi.....
"...Cecil Kennedy will be best remembered for his minutely detailed depictions of flowers, though he also worked as a portraitist. His greatest works are admired for their exquisite detail and artful compositions, and many of these were produced during the 1960s. Kennedy’s wife Winifred created the brilliant flower arrangements, usually in a vase from their collection of mid-eighteenth century Waterford vases, which continually inspired his work. Cecil Kennedy was born into a large artistic Victorian family. He was the youngest of thirteen children. His grandfather was an artist who had lived in France, sketched with Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) and exchanged drawings with him. His father was a landscape painter and four of his brothers were artists. His brother Charles, who died in the ‘flu epidemic of 1918, was a particular influence on him. In the early thirties he met and married Winifred Aves. She became his inspiration and for sixty-four years they worked together as a creative team..."
texte pris sur ce site

jeudi 22 avril 2010

Kathleen Dustin "des sacs ojets "

Kathleen Dustin Inspirée par la nature ....
Crée des sacs qui peuvent aussi être des objets d'art... Collection originale réalisée en argile polymérique Allez vite découvrir aussi la galerie de ses bijoux sur son site et via mon blog

mardi 20 avril 2010

Chritine Touzeau "Aquarelles "


Charme, et poésie....et plus encore..... J'ai déjà présenté Christine ici Voir son site