Artist: Roustan
Models: Coyote, Rebecca RS, Kyara Tyler
Monday, December 12, 2022
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Victoria Alynette Fuller
Art Appreciation
Blogging this was a bit challenging because I didn't know whether to focus on the model or the artist. So, I'm going to do both. 😀
Victoria Alynette Fuller was the centerfold PLAYMATE tucked inside the January 1996 PLAYBOY. I remember that issue because it not only provided a cover and photo spread of Pamela Anderson, but it also included a review of 1995 PLAYMATES. Oh... and there were also intriguing articles and interviews of Dennis Rodman, Conan O'Brien, and a young Johnny Depp.
But it was Stephen Wayda's photos of Victoria that caught my young-self's attention. The 5' 8" blonde hair blue eyes epitomized "the California girl."
Born on December 11, 1970, Victoria was discovered by a Playboy scout while modeling. As explained in the PLAYBOY write up by Bob Daily, "She sent her photograph to PLAYBOY twice without success."
In her PLAYMATE DATA SHEET, her ambitions included "owning a beautiful home, displaying my artwork in a gallery, and learn something new everyday."
She explains, "I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil... My dream is to display my art in a gallery someday, where everybody dresses up and drinks champagne and admires my work. And then they buy everything."
The photoshoot features her in nude stockings and high heels, a pink feature boa, knee-high pink boots, leopard lingerie, corset under bust skirt, and nothing but paint. The paint ones are my favorite because she it shows a playful side as she squeezes paint out of a tube onto her naked chest and paints it on a canvas -- I wonder if she sold that painting.
After her centerfold, Victoria received a licensing contract with PLAYBOY that allowed her to use trademarks like the Rabbit Head Symbol and Bunny Costumes. She launched THE MARK, a large collection that included original oils and limited edition prints.
PLAYBOY catapulted her art career.
Source:
Playboy, January 1996, volume 43, number 1
Wikipedia
https://www.victoriafuller.com/about
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Friday, December 9, 2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Album Cover: The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Album Cover
Album: The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Released: December 6, 1968
Cover Art Designer: Barry Feinstein
Source: Wikipedia
Monday, December 5, 2022
George Shepherd
Art Appreciation
Born on December 5, 1784, George "Sidney" Shepherd was a British topographical, architectural and landscape painter.
He lived in France up until the start of the French Revolutionary War when he moved back to Britain in 1793. At the age of 19, Shepherd was recognized by the Society of Arts with the silver palette.
He was a contributor to John Britton's The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, vol IV, and provided illustration to Charles Clarke and Rudolph Ackermann.
In 1831, Shepherd was a founding member of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (now known as the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours).
Aldermaston (1819)
Red Line Square (1815)
The Serpentine, Hyde Park
Sources:
Wikipedia
Wikimedia
https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/785765-george-shepherd-1784-1862-red-line-square-w-c-1-1815-watercolour/
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Rudolf Hausner
Art Appreciation
Considered "the first psychoanalytical painter" and "psychic realist," Austrian artist Rudolf Hausner was born on December 4, 1914.
At the age of 17, Hausner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931 until 1936. He was then drafted into the Austrian Armed Forces. After the German annexation of Austria (Anschluss), his painting was banned from being exhibited by the Reich Chamber of Culture and considered degenerate art.
In 1941, Hausner was drafted into the German Armed Forces, but dismissed a few years later by the Wehrmacht (the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany). He was employed as a technical draftsman in the armaments industry.
Following World War II, Hausner returned to Vienna and resumed work as an artist. Along with Edgar Jené, Ernst Fuchs, Helmut Leherb, Wolfgang Hutter, and Fritz Janschka, he founded a surrealist group in 1946. Around this time, he produced metaphysical art (pittura metafiscia) and psychoanalytical art. A characteristic of his painting technique was the use of translucent resin oil paintings over underpainting of acrylic paints.
Hausner exhibited for the first time in a group exhibition at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, which opened the door to international exhibitions. He gave lectures and accepted guest lecture positions in Hamburg and Tokyo. In 1959, he co-founded the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
From 1966 until 1980, he was a guest professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, and taught at he Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 1968.
Self-Examination, 1984
Gelber Narrenhut, 1974
The Ark of Odysseus, 1948-1956
Sources:
Wikipedia
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/02/05/the-art-of-rudolf-hausner-1914-1995/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/rudolf-hausner/
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