All posts tagged "Fashion"
20th century
Painting of the Week: Valentin Serov, Princess Olga Orlova
January 17, 2021Late Tsarist Russia evokes images of great social inequality in respect of health, wealth, and happiness....
dailyart
Fashion as Manifesto: Uniforms Designed for an Imaginary Space Station
December 4, 2020Using art as a manifesto of one’s feelings and ideas has always been common among artists...
Art State of Mind
Wearing the Message: Changing the World One Outfit at a Time
November 24, 2020From the original silk banners worn by the Suffragettes, through to slogan T-shirts, we often quite...
Bodies And Erotic Art
Painting of the Week: François Boucher, La Toilette
November 22, 2020The soft rustle of silky cloth and the hard crackling of burning wood echo against the...
Art Forms
Wild, Practical, Erotic and Magical: The Miniature World of Netsuke
October 29, 2020Originating in 17th century Japan during the Edo Period, Netsuke (pronounced nets-keh) are toggles that attach...
Ancient
Ancient Bikini Girls from the Roman Mosaics
October 17, 2020If you have ever wondered when the history of the bikini began, it started exactly at...
19th Century
A Perfect World of Perfect Women in James Tissot’s Paintings
October 10, 2020This title might be a little controversial. In fact, critics find the term demi-mondaine to be...
19th Century
Painting of the Week: Firs Zhuravlev, A Fashionista Wife
September 20, 2020Firs Zhuravlev’s realistic paintings show all aspects of Russian life. And we can imagine the scene...
20th century
The Forgotten Couturier Elsa Schiaparelli: Surrealism, Art and Revolutionary Fashion
September 19, 2020Italian female fashion designer and couturier, the greatest rival of Coco Chanel, and a friend of...
Artists' Stories
A Fierce Romance of Art and Fashion: The Friendship of Salvador Dali and Coco Chanel
September 18, 2020When Dali moved to Paris in 1926, Chanel was already a famous fashion designer. Dali had...
