miss dior

Another odd posting, but the luxury goods and perfume industry make fantastic use of artistic expression; they seduce us, me, you ... and bring me to lands hitherto unknown. The thrill and excitement of being really ALIVE. Here a photo I took of Dior's installation at the C-E in Paris.

Just Imagining

I imagine her in a black or dark blue dress. She sits cuddled up on the sofa. Elegant, beautiful and enjoying herself. Her knight is fetching her a drink, but taking a little too long - as he is waiting for some small sign of her interest in dancing through the night.

Read up on water colors in Jeanne Dobie's eminent "Making Color Sing". She makes it straight forward and it seems simple, until you actually try it. Water color is so demanding, and yet that is the fun of it: making those colors fresh and to make them sing! Here a place with warm and cold, wet-in-wet, opaque and transparent colors.

50 Shades of Red (and Grey)

I saw an exhibition of the lesser known impressionist the other day: Caillebotte . He was a front runner also of realism, and the exhibition also nicely showed how the camera pictures started to influence paintings of the time, but also how photographers were influenced by art. This ' dialectic ' is still vital for our progress in arts and as humans.

So here a little photo snippit that I cropped, rearranged, recolored and turned. Evokes memories of longing, a tender caress, a sensual movement ... worthy a painting in iRed, don't you think?