ART AFICIONADO

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Cosplay is an Art: Megacon Birmingham 2022

via The 86th Floor: Cosplay and Cons

Friday, April 29, 2022

Fashion is DEFINITELY an Art: The Crystal Ball - Fall Fashion Show March 2022

via Dallas Market Center

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Album Cover: Jennifer Lopez - Love?

Album Cover

Album: Jennifer Lopez - Love?

Released: April 29, 2011

Cover Art Designed: Julian Peploe

Photographer: Warwick Saint

Art Direction: JP Robinson, Julian Peploe, and Warwick Saint

Sources: Wikipedia, Composite.is

Monday, April 25, 2022

Cy Twombly

Art Appreciation

Born in Lexington, Virginia on April 25, 1928, Cy Twombly is best known for large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on mostly gray, tan, and off-white colors.

Twombly began taking private art lessons at the age of 12 from the Catalan artist Pierre Daura. After attending art schools and universities, he studied at the Art Students League of New York. There he met Robert Rauschenberg.

Rauschenberg encouraged him to attend Black Mountain College. There he met other artists who had influence in his work.

His first solo exhibition was held at the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in New York City in 1951.

In 1957, Twombly moved to Rome and married Italian artist Baroness Tatiana Franchetti. They had a son, Cyrus Alessandro Twombly, a couple years later.

From 1955 to 1959, he worked along side Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Around that time, Twombly developed the technique of gestural drawing characterized by thin white lines on dark canvas, appearing as if the surface had scratches.

In the 1960s and 70s, Twombly would inscribe names of mythological figures in his paintings. In 1978, Twombly's Fifty Days at Ilium incorporated cryptic pictorial metaphors.