Artists: Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant for Coperni
Model: Bella Hadid
Monday, October 10, 2022
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Friday, October 7, 2022
Fashion is DEFINITELY Art: Fendi Resort 2023
Designer: Silvia Venturini Fendi
Artistic Director: Kim Jones
Collaborator: Marc Jacobs
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Thursday, October 6, 2022
Méret Oppenheim
Art Appreciation
Surrealist artist and photographer, Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim was born on October 6, 1913 in Berlin.Although born in German, she grew up in Delémont, Switzerland, which borders France. At a young age, she was exposed to different artworks that included French Impressionism, German Expressionism, Modernism, Fauvism, and Cubism.
Her father introduced Oppenheim to the writings of founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung, at the age of 15. She was more so influenced by Jung's animus-anima theory--the contra-sexual aspect of a person's psyche--which is becomes apparent in many of her work throughout the years. At one point, she renounced the term "feminine art" and adopted Jung's ideal androgynous creativity.
At the age of 18, Oppenheim moved to Paris and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière to study painting. While in Paris, she was invited by Hans Arp and Alberto Giacometti to participate in the Surrealist exhibition in the “Salon des Surindépendants." Soon after, she surrounded herself with other Surrealist artists like Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Andre Breton.
She experimented with "veristic surrealism," which portrays the dreamworld in rich detail. Partly influenced by Jung, Oppenheim used painting and her dreams as an "analogy to the subconsciousness' forms."
Self-portrait, skull and ornament, 1964
Glove, 1985
Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, 1936
Source:
Wikipedia
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/meret-oppenheim-object-paris-1936/
https://nmwa.org/exhibitions/meret-oppenheim/
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Revisiting Playboy's October 1995 Edition Featuring "Women of the Ivy League"
While researching for my blog entry on Alicia Rickter, I came across a 10-page Playboy (October 1995) spread, photography by David Chan and David Mecey, highlighting the "Women of the Ivy League." When I was college, I remember receiving this issue and just falling in love with many of these girls posing for this spread.
So, after 27 years, curiosity hit me -- "I wonder what they are doing now?"
AMY NABORS
At the bottom of the third page of the spread is a sexy photo of Amy Nabors revealing her beautiful breast from her blue sweater, wearing sexy red lingerie panties, and staring at the camera with her hair draped over the side of the bed. The caption reads, "A self-described feminist, Yale's Amy Nabors... says: 'I wanted to pose for PLAYBOY to show that we're not asexual man-haters.' After finishing her course work here, the anthropology major says she wants to study sex in other cultures."
Seventeen years later (2012), Amy Biviano, a small business coordinator and public accountant, ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Washington House of Representatives. The contest became a "must watch" after a conservative blog revealed her Playboy stunt.
SUSANE COLASANTI
The stunning Susane Colasanti was one that quickly caught my attention--a validation of my taste in women. Even more so after I learned what she's doing now in life.
On the fifth page of the Playboy pictorial, is the sexy photo of Susane wearing a sexy black teddy under a white cotton rob, exposing her beautiful large breast and pubic area. The caption reads, "'I was raised in a family where the body was respected as an art form,' says University of Pennsylvania astrophysics major Susan Colasanti... Step aerobics, oil painting and cuddling (with her teddy bear, Chez) keep Susane busy -- that is, when she's not stargazing."
After learning all this, I quickly subscribed to her Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube channel. I'm now a fan.
SHANNON SMITH
I have a thing for long curly hair. So, naturally, I was drawn towards Shannon Smith, who posed on staircase lifting her blue sundress revealing her beautiful ass and gorgeous legs. A profile of a breast is exposed as she looks downward towards the camera. The caption reads, "Shannon Smith... of Dartmouth is an animal lover, too -- but no tame stuff for her: She's interested in primate and tiger care."
Later, in a Dartmouth periodical, Shannon explained her choice in posing for Playboy, "I believe the human body is beautiful and not something that should be hidden. It is not something against women, but for the human body."
Today, Shannon works in homeless health care and founder of a sobering center. After graduating from Dartmouth, she moved to Los Angeles and pursued a career in nursing. She explains in a Roads Taken podcast, "... I really wanted to help people, and I had been volunteering a lot. I worked a lot with homeless agencies in Venice and Los Angeles. Nursing was able to put me in the forefront of what ended up being exactly what I wanted to do."
AMANDA PANAGAKOS
Like I said above, I have a weakness for long curls. The last "Women of the Ivy League" featured in this pictorial was Amanda Panagakos, a stunning long curly brown hair 19-year old who's black dress is drop around her hips bearing her pretty breast. She has her butt against the key slip fo a piano. The caption reads, "Finally, say hello to 19-year-old Amanda Panagakos... a hotel administration major attending Cornell, where she hops to learn the secrets of opening her own resort. Until then, the dancer-lifeguard wouldn't mind being a Playmate."
Amanda Panagakos Guadagnino is now a councilwoman for a town in New Jersey. After graduating Cornell, she worked as a golf shop manager -- eight months at Trump National Golf Club at Bedminster--before becoming a medical office manager.
Although, I am first to admit that I always look forward in receiving Playboy magazines for the girls. Yes, the articles were good, but it was the centerfolds and pictorials that I was after. But looking back as an adult, there is an appreciation for these representatives of "Women of the Ivy League" and what they've accomplished in life.
Sources:
https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2014/feb/07/amy-biviano-returns-political-arena/
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/oct/19/legislative-hopeful-posed-topless-playboy/
http://unprofessionalcritic.blogspot.com/2010/03/awesome-author-interview-part-deux.html
https://www.susanecolasanti.com/press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susane_Colasanti
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/1995/09/dartmouth-women-grace-playboy
https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1995/12/1/playboys-view-of-the-green
Monday, October 3, 2022
Laurie Simmons
Photographer Appreciation
Laurie Simmons is best recognized for her feminist contributions in photography and film during the post-war United States.
Born on October 3, 1949, her work was heavily influenced raised in a Jewish suburb in Queens, New York. Women roles in her photographs were portrayed using dolls in dollhouses such as a housewife doll in the kitchen--a photo collection shot in 1976. Other inanimate objects placed in themed settings followed including Kaleidoscope House, and The Love Doll.
In 2006, Simmons' first film, The Music of Regret, featured Academy Award winner Meryl Streep and a lot of her subjects captured in photographs.
She is part of a group of prominent artists known as The Pictures Generation, an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in 2009.
The Love Doll via whitney.org
Kaleidoscope House via modernminihouses
Sources:
Wikipedia
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/simmons-laurie/
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/laurie-simmons
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