Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Style Icon: Kanye West

The nine-time Grammy Award winning, world famous rapper/producer Kanye West is also known for his interest in men's fashion. He also collects contemporary art.. so basically he lives my dream life.

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Domenico Guidi

Domenico Guidi is another extraordinary Italian sculptor who was active during the Baroque period. I saw this work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan and its beauty almost instantly had me mesmerized. It's called "Andromeda and the Sea Monster," based on the Greek myth where Andromeda was sacrificed to a sea monster as punishment to her mother for her arrogance.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova was an incredible Italian sculptor whose work marked the movement from the end of the Baroque to Neoclassicism.

Seriously, how insane are these pieces? For most of us today it seems like the hardest thing in the world to learn how to draw the human body, much less make works of art like these out of blocks of marble. The pristine form and expression in these blows my mind.

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