Whistle

I've come to realize when I started this blog, I wasn't sure exactly what I would post and now I see that most of my posts just show a link between art and fashion or something along those lines.

Palace Guard with Two Leopards by Benjamin Constant, Badgley-Mischka Fall 08, Manuel Osorio de Zuniga by Francisco Goya, jesophi.etsy.com

Dreamy Blue

Sources: Victoria Mason, jesophi.etsy.com, sweet home style.tumblr, via bleubird vintage, Hunting Items Still Life Norbertius, Portrait of Maria de Tassis Anthony Van Dyck, Nicole de Main Summer 2009 TFS, Pia Stanchina, Estampillas.flickr, via style on track,

Perspective

Interior of a calvanist church 1660 by Emmanuel de Witte (1617-1692), Elisabeth Toll

Van Gogh

I learned about Van Gogh today and I think he's pretty fascinating. There's just something about the tortured artist thing that gets me every time. It's been said that during some of his fits of psychosis he would eat dirt and tubes of paint.

I love both his earlier and later work.
His paintings were very gloomy and dark at the beginning of his career, but once he moved to Provence, France he started using complementary colors that made his paintings electric.


A Pair of Boots (1887), Almond Blossom (1890), Self-Portrait(1889), The Potato Eaters (1885), Flower Beds In Holland (1883), Coal Barges 1888),

Silent Film Star II: Norma Talmadge

Once again, while reading "Tender is the Night" F. Scott Fitzgerald alluded to another silent star I did not know and therefore looked up.

Norma Talmadge(1893-1957) was one of the most popular silent film stars and yet when the talking film revolution started, she was unable to keep her stardom. Her most famous film was called Smilin' Through in 1922.

friday

Sources: unknown, Stockholm Street Style, unknown, Miss Moss, unknown

Cat Eye

I love cat eye glasses.

Sources: Lula "Love Letter", Marilyn Monroe via A Beautiful Mess, Vogue Italia sep. 08 Steven Meisel, via miss cavendish, Urban Outfitters polaroid via tfs, Steven Kasher- mugshot photographer x2, Vogue Italia sep. 08 Steven Meisel, Lula "Love Letter" outtakes by Sandra Feij, Me, Teen Vogue, via Bleubird Vintage, Back Thennish Vintage @ etsy.com,
Vintage 50s eyewear @ etsy.com,

drapes

Sources: "Portrait d'Adele Bauer II" 1912 Gustav Klimt oil on canvas, Missoni Fall 09 via style.com, "A Terrace in Morroco in the Evening" Benjamin-Constant 1879 oil on canvas, Vogue Nippon via knightcat, unknown, Badgley-Mishka Fall 08, Tim Walker