Models have more talent than just looking good! Check out Sasha Pivovarova’s illustration for Chanel. It was influenced by her Russian background and was the perfect piece for the Chanel runway show that chose Moscow as its desitnation. It was Karl Lagerfield himself who requested her art work. Sasha’s love for the arts is nothing new. Sasha was studying at the St. Petersberg Art Institute before signing with IMG Models in NYC. Sasha mentions doing an illustrative book for Prada and Chanel. Beauty and brains, who knew?!
“My drawings were inspired by the joy of seeing fairytale characters coming to life in one of the main theaters of Moscow, the city where I was born.”
Whole in the Wall exhibit in New Yorks Galerie is the worlds largest American & European street art exhibition- artists from the 70’s to now. Think artists such as Victor Ash, Banksy, Blade, Blek le Rat, Crash, Daze, Ikon, Jonone, Nunca, Plateus, Quik, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Sharp, Sozyone, Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz, Silvio Magaglio .
The exhibition will take place at the former Splashlight Studios at 529-535 West 35th Street located in the Chelsea-Clinton neighborhood of New York City from May 28 to June 27, 2009. Helenbeck Gallery has brought this exhibition back to where this art form began: New York. This exhibition will explore the transition of street art from the New York underground subculture scene to the mainstream. The first generation of artists of the street scene in New York during the 70’s and 80’s, Blade, Crash, Daze, Jonone, Quik , Lee Quinones, Rammellzee and Sharp, will produce fresh works alongside their European contemporaries: Victor Ash, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Ikon, Sozy One and sculptor, Plateus who have since entered the pantheon. Important photographers who have documented rare scenes of the street art movement also will be represented in the show: Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant, Jamel Shabazz and Silvio Magaglio.
Who does not want a picture of Marilyn Monroe? Try one made by Steven Barrett. It is made up of all glitter! Make sense right? She was a pop icon, that lived in that glitteratti lifestyle. You can check out and purchase this art atNew Blood Art.
Steven Barrett, like most pop artists, was a purveyor of pop culture and represented this perspective in his art. As Andy Warhol was interested in mass culture so was, Steven Barrett in the 1980’s.
Steven desribes his work as “Trash with a hint of sophistication”.
When you think of Picasso, you think of his “Blue Period” or perhaps his involvement in the movement, Cubism. However, there is more to the art and to the man just before he passed in 1973. Much of his work in the last stages of his life have been overlooked and considered irrelevant, until now.
The Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea New York has his paintings and art on exhibit titled as “Picasso: Mosqueteros“. It is the first public appearance for the paintings because of the curiosity and demand to view his work. It is rare and special moment. Curators, researchers, and professors alike have had thought his mind frail, skittish and often showed up in his work. The work that was once questionable is now presented in a different light. According to the press release it is looked as “exhibition suggests how the portrayal of the aged Picasso, bound to the past in his life and painting, has obscured the highly innovative and contemporary nature of the late work”
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