Comments on: A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist A Site About Everything and Nothing Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:15:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: Witches of Eastwick http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5577 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:59:45 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5577 Rod, Unlike the V & A, we're surprised you didn't embed Josephine Baker's famous banana dance! If ever there was something revolutionary, surely this was it. No doubt it would have livened up the Royal Variety Performance each year since :) WoE Rod,

Unlike the V & A, we’re surprised you didn’t embed Josephine Baker’s famous banana dance! If ever there was something revolutionary, surely this was it. No doubt it would have livened up the Royal Variety Performance each year since :)

WoE

]]> Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5576 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:41:10 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5576 WoE not familiar with her work, will check it out RC WoE
not familiar with her work, will check it out
RC

]]> Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: Witches of Eastwick http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5574 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:26:18 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5574 Rod, Tamara de Lempicka is another artist we admire and have seen in exhibitions. The leap from multi corseted Victorians to the flimsy satin slips worn by the flapper girls must have seemed amazing for the time. The V & A exhibition some years back, of all things art deco from around the world was fabulous in every sense and if we had known you then Rod we would have insisted you take the plunge and break out of Wybers Wood for the cultural experience of a lifetime.... great pity! WoE Rod,

Tamara de Lempicka is another artist we admire and have seen in exhibitions. The leap from multi corseted Victorians to the flimsy satin slips worn by the flapper girls must have seemed amazing for the time. The V & A exhibition some years back, of all things art deco from around the world was fabulous in every sense and if we had known you then Rod we would have insisted you take the plunge and break out of Wybers Wood for the cultural experience of a lifetime…. great pity!

WoE

]]> Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5573 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:41:30 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5573 LB as you rightly say, true quality never goes out of style. If it genuinely was great once why would that change ? Mediocrity dies ! RC LB
as you rightly say, true quality never goes out of style.
If it genuinely was great once why would that change ?
Mediocrity dies !
RC

]]> Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5572 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:38:30 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5572 Dino thanks for the great addition. I think what really stands out about this period was that it was a complete revolution in style rather than a gradual evolution. What's more it moved into every area - how often has that happened in history ? It had an impact on everything from the cup you drank your tea from to the building you drank it in ! Being devoid of any artistic skills means I am perhaps poorly placed to comment on the level of skill involved but I imagine it to be very difficult technically. The cleanliness of the lines etc leave no room for interpretation as such, whilst the images are impressionistic they are also very precise in their execution. Pleased it's had a good reception All the best Rod Another great artist of the period I previously wrote about was <a href="http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/bip-pares">Bip Pares</a> Dino
thanks for the great addition.
I think what really stands out about this period was that it was a complete revolution in style rather than a gradual evolution. What’s more it moved into every area - how often has that happened in history ?
It had an impact on everything from the cup you drank your tea from to the building you drank it in !

Being devoid of any artistic skills means I am perhaps poorly placed to comment on the level of skill involved but I imagine it to be very difficult technically.
The cleanliness of the lines etc leave no room for interpretation as such, whilst the images are impressionistic they are also very precise in their execution.

Pleased it’s had a good reception
All the best
Rod

Another great artist of the period I previously wrote about was Bip Pares

]]> Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5569 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:10:17 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5569 Rod, A great post and nice to put a name and face to pictures I have seen many times before. There is a huge website based in the UK which sells vintage posters of these pictures and others from that genre so it shows how well it has stood the test of time, or should we say test of quality as the two go hand in hand for me. Good work fella! LB Rod,
A great post and nice to put a name and face to pictures I have seen many times before. There is a huge website based in the UK which sells vintage posters of these pictures and others from that genre so it shows how well it has stood the test of time, or should we say test of quality as the two go hand in hand for me.
Good work fella!
LB

]]> Comment on A.M. Cassandre Art Deco Artist by: the dinosaur http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5568 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:38:38 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/am-cassandre-art-deco-artist#comment-5568 Rod, Congratulations on a great tribute to a fine artist. It reminded me of a recent discussion on this site about what makes a work of art special, the Art Deco style was so different and new it really did change the world, it's easy to overlook all the outstanding artists in so many fields of design (from architecture to pottery to fashion to aircraft and cars) they all made it great! It's interesting how they all seemed to inspire each other in the same creative direction, I've tried to do drawings in that style and it is incredibly difficult to recreate convincingly, we underestimate their individual talents and only acknowledge the genre. Rod, Congratulations on a great tribute to a fine artist. It reminded me of a recent discussion on this site about what makes a work of art special, the Art Deco style was so different and new it really did change the world, it’s easy to overlook all the outstanding artists in so many fields of design (from architecture to pottery to fashion to aircraft and cars) they all made it great! It’s interesting how they all seemed to inspire each other in the same creative direction, I’ve tried to do drawings in that style and it is incredibly difficult to recreate convincingly, we underestimate their individual talents and only acknowledge the genre.

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