The Decorator

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Pink Gum Blossoms 1929 by Margaret Preston

Enjoy your day, read a book, stop and smell the flowers, and relax!

Image from 'Margaret Preston' Art Gallery of New South Wales

Deborah Edwards

In the words of Sarah Jessica Parker

He had these gorgeous hands.

And he just worked. And he was quiet and unthinkably shy, didn’t look in your eyes much,

didn’t want to, wasn’t interested in engaging;

it wasn’t important for me to be his friend. You know, he was very concerned about his work.

Alexander McQueen
Savage Beauty
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
May 4th - July 31st 2011

images via Another & The Met

Showing now is 'Art in the Streets' at

The definitive first survey show of street and graffiti art, encompasses old skool to now,

including '70's artists

such as Bojorquez and Howard the Duck,

'80's work by Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf &

Jean Michel Basquiat,

all the way up to the current stars

Banksy, Shepherd Fairy and Space Invader.

I saw this image below of Kenny Scharf's

'Cosmic Cavern Closet Fun' on the

Trina Turk blog this am

and was taken by the spooky similarity in colour palette

of my own vintage painting by

Maximillian Feuerring.

Dayglo installation by Kenny Scharf 'Cosmic Cavern Closet Fun' at 'Art in the Streets' in LA

Detail from Purple Abstract 1972

Purple Abstract by Maximillian Feuerring 1972

1. via Trina Turk blog 2. Photo J. Watson-Evans 3. Photo by J Watson-Evans