Andy Warhol: Liz #5
By BarbaraAnne:
Andrij Warhola was Rusyn Byzantine Catholic coal miner from Pittsburgh. His son invented pop art and painted the British-born daughter of Americans, who became a movie star. Phillips de Pury & Co. sold Andy Warhol’s “Liz #5” for… Continue reading
Photographing Susan Maxwell Schmidt
By BarbaraAnne:
I am learning and practicing object photography with lights, flash,lenses, oy givalt kill me now… ;-P So here are two photographs I did of the great modern hair jewelry of artist Susan Maxwell Schmidt. Comments welcome.
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Redon in a Longlocks Bead
By BarbaraAnne:
Ooooo, this one has square beads where the colors mesh into each other. I must have them! Look at the way Susan painted the stick to bring out colors in the bead. I didn’t even notice they were… Continue reading
Botticelli’s Aesthetic
By BarbaraAnne:
Sandro Botticelli’s Venus c.1486 emerges from the sea as a full-grown woman. A sea shell carries her to the shore. The Medici family collected a Greek sculpture of Venus, the pose of which Botticelli copied. In stone and… Continue reading
Ecstasy as Style in Ballet
By BarbaraAnne
When I was 19, I told my mother, “Oh yes, I will be very well taken care of at Karen’s home in Brewster!” Of course, Karen, Debbie, Mamie, and I rushed to JFK so we could board a… Continue reading
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+Susan Maxwell Schmidt
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Loosely wrapped, creative, nocturnal, eternally blue, reclusive, eccentric, obsessive perfectionist... in other words, an artist.
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