Art nouveau für eine alte jugend
This is an illustration i made aout two months ago…i didn’t like it much then even though it took disgustingly long to make (probabely because i didn’t like what i began with and thus procrastinated finnishing it).
Any way, the theme, given me by my grand mecenats – “sprezzatura”, was art nouveau – the style that is. As the style as far as i know got it’s name from a magazine as did it’s german counterpart the Jugend style i thought it fitting to produce what i thought of as a magazine frontpage in a rather commercial style… the object depicted in the illustration, a middle age female body subjected to liposuction was my immediate association to “new art” and “youth” ( for those not interested in bierwurst or art history jugend means youth in german).
“New art for an old youth” would be the mixed translation of the francogerman title… the letters are taken from the original jugend and art nouveau magazines.
about facebook
A strange affect of facebook is that you can see the world continue spining even when you’re quite certain it’s just stopped. When everything seems to slow down and all life seems to balance on a knives edge, you’re still reminded that some fucker you couldn’t care less about will be celebrating his birthday tomorrow, it’s an odd feeling, hard to classify as negative or positive. At it’s best it’s reassuring at it’s worst it seems an arrogant reminder of just how fucking meaningless your own concerns are to the rest of the world.
Oh my, a friend of mine had a good dinner yesterday, i have to really soak this new knowledge up… BEFORE I KILL MYSELF IN A NEW AND EXCITING FASHION.
Now don’t worry, i promise to notify all my friends and casual acquaintances on facebokk an hour ahead before taking any measures;)
Je le déteste
I really do
The room is based on a boudoir in the mansion of famed American decorator Elsie de Wolfe, found the picture on my new favourite blog – Habitually chic.
Basse couture
Low couture is what you produce when you watch tv-shows on fashion (like this one about Yves saint Laurent) and decide you’d really like to be a fashion-designer but you only really want too make crappy and more or less incomprehensible sketches of clothes you’d like too see someone very professional devote there entire competence too make wearable.
Low couture:
Returning to haunt you
I’ve decided to start blogging again… why? because all my other ambitions are failing and i don’t see how you can fail at blogging.
So, here comes art!
She talks too much, or "Käthe Kollwitz has an orgazm"
Anyone who doesn’t know who Käthe Kollwitz is should “look it the fuck up” as we say here in Gothenburg .
I will also inform you it was painted using a Wacom pad, if you hadn’t noticed (a cheap one too).
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