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By Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face
(June – October 2022)
'Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal.'
Pablo Picasso
For the first time, Picasso’s ‘Woman with a Book’ (1932) from the Norton Simon Museum, California, will be brought together with the painting that inspired it, ‘Madame Moitessier’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Picasso first encountered the enigmatic ‘Madame Moitessier’ at an exhibition in Paris, in 1921, and was enthralled. Over the next decade, he repeatedly referenced Ingres in his art, and painted ‘Woman with a Book’, one of his most celebrated portraits, in homage to Ingres’s famous work.
For Ingres, a 19th-century French artist steeped in the academic tradition, the beautiful and wealthy Madame Moitessier represented the classical ideal. Wearing her finest clothes and jewellery, she gazes at the viewer majestically, the embodiment of luxury and style during the Second Empire.
Picasso, born 100 years after Ingres, is famous for a very different, abstract, style of art, but his inspiration is clear. The model for ‘Woman with a Book’, Picasso's then young mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, mimics Madame Moitessier’s distinct pose. The painting balances sensuality and restraint, striking a chord with the eroticism latent beneath Ingres’s image of bourgeois respectability.
‘Picasso Ingres: Face to Face’ is a unique opportunity to see these two portraits, side by side, for the first time, and to trace the continuous thread between 19th and 20th-century artistic development.
[National Gallery]
I've never really like the aesthetics of threadless stems, so I went ahead and had my steerer tube cut and threaded.
The Loom Gallery inside Paisley Museum and Art Galleries.
The Loom Gallery is dedicated to Ellen Farmer MBE, a former mill girl who had Paisley in her heart.
(she is sadly missed)
Photographs by Brian McGuire
This is a piece of Tatted edging I am working on. I am fairly new to tatting so it is going a little slow
Macro of the eye of a needle. Shot with a Ricoh 50mm f1.7 lens reversed on the lens adapter of my Canon S5.
Today I presented my methods for thread drawing - using four different techniques for this simple piece - to the Harbor Art Guild in Hoquiam, WA.
I used four different techniques to create this image - standard lock-stitching on a home machine, darning on a home machine, fabric applique with fusible web, and hand-embroidery.
Im starting to get really excited for this years Thread Shed Throwdown on feb 13th 2010 ! ************ www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#/event.php?eid=269087585945&am... ***********
This is a photo from the set that i took for the flyer last season.
As much a i love my fashion and boudoir and nude photography I have a a strong passion for snowboarding and skateboarding photography. So I'll be shooting and selling my photos at the thread shed so COME ON DOWN !
The threads is colored with hand made dye and is made to rotate on a wheel powered on motor. Its a tedious process and can take hours to complete a set
Aurifil Thread mosaic for the Aurifil Make-A Designer-Collection competition on Lily's Quilts. So my points don't quite match - this hexagon was agony to "piece" but has a nice balance of brights and neutrals. I'd choose 50 wt thread because it's so versatile.
While at the art festival, we went to the kids craft area and spent quite a while creating some art of our own. Here, Kyleigh is threading some beads onto a leather strip which became a bracelet. It's interesting to note how her fingers have become more adept at fine detail work as she gets older. No longer clumsy and inaccurate, she is now able to coordinate her fingers with her mind to create things. It's been fun to watch her skills sharpen and refine themselves as she gets older.
- Patrick -