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OUTSIDE IN: THE STORY OF ART IN THE STREETS
Like it or not, “Art in the Streets” was one of the most important things to happen to the art world in the last few years, and one of the biggest things ever to happen to graffiti and street art. Director Alex Stapleton takes us inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’ famous exhibition.
From Shepard Fairey to Lee Quiñones, Swoon, Futura, and Mister Cartoon; from Revok to Martha Cooper, Invader and more, the show that took place from April 17-August 8, 2011, followed graffiti and street art as far back as Basquiat and even some of the gang graffiti in the 1940s and 50s in LA. Graffiti and street art are mainstays of the high art world now, and this documentary aims to show how MOCA contributed to that fact.
For the record, I thought the show was tastefully done with what highly controversial subject matter they had to work with.
(Source: vimeo.com)
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Marco Mazzoni | marcomazzoni (Italy) - Ativan. Colored pencils on paper, 48x33 cm (2011)
The Italian artist Marco Mazzoni has created a magnificent series of female potraits, framed by butterfly wings, birds, hallucinogenic plants or delicate nature. “I started this work after reading “Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches)”, a strange book first published by the church in the 15th century. In this book women are the worst thing in the world. Here in Italy we have a lot of stories about the “witches”. I want to pay tribute to these women and their knowledge of medical plants and animals.” Everything can be the source of inspiration for Marco: the hallucinogenic power of plants, the nature, the life and the illusions… You can find more works on his Tumblr and Facebook. (Interview with artist by ARTchipel Feb-2012)
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Marco Mazzoni | marcomazzoni (Italy) - Ativan. Colored pencils on paper, 48x33 cm (2011)
The Italian artist Marco Mazzoni has created a magnificent series of female potraits, framed by butterfly wings, birds, hallucinogenic plants or delicate nature. “I started this work after reading “Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches)”, a strange book first published by the church in the 15th century. In this book women are the worst thing in the world. Here in Italy we have a lot of stories about the “witches”. I want to pay tribute to these women and their knowledge of medical plants and animals.” Everything can be the source of inspiration for Marco: the hallucinogenic power of plants, the nature, the life and the illusions… You can find more works on his Tumblr and Facebook. (Interview with artist by ARTchipel Feb-2012)
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Ai Tominaga by Sophie Delaporte, Vogue China, March 2008.
Obit of the Day: How Bazaar
Lillian Bassman’s career as a photographer first began with a love of art. Wandering the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York she fell in love with the elegance of the Old Masters. She found her way to a vocational school and began her professional career as painter and graphic designer. Discovered by legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch while in his prestigious lab school, Bassman began working for Harper’s Bazaar and then Junior Bazaar.
While at Junior Bazaar she hired the best photographers she could find including an unknown Richard Avedon. Her work with the magazine led her to give up art direction and take up photography. And she transformed what people thought fashion photography could be. Not satisfied with simply posing and shooting models, Bassman attempted to replicate the style of her beloved Old Masters. She succeed as John Galliano described her work as “painterly strokes of light.”
Bassman retired from photography in the 1970s and burned most of her commercial negatives. Luckily she kept some stored in a trash bag and a friend rediscovered them in 1991 and convinced Bassman to publish her work and return to photography.
She died at the age of 94.
Romantic note: Bassman and her husband Paul Himmel met when they were 6 and 9, respectively. They moved in together when Bassman was 15 and Himmel 18. They married three years later, in 1935, and remained together for 74 years until Himmel died in 2009.
(Images are all copyright of Lillian Bassman. Because of lack of citations on various websites I don’t know which magazines, if any, the photographs appeared. Here are the courtesies:top - Frou Frou Fashionista; middle left - Life Via Pictures; middle right - Through the Looking Glass; bottom - Pacific Standard)
