Very Matisse, no? The colors, the patterns, the outlines…

Editorial ‘Poetic Allures’ For It Vogue Jun2006; Photographer: Michael Thomson.
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“Henri Matisse was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. Although he was initially [...]

Studying painting is not as easy as it sounds. We do paint, but it’s more to it than that. Painters, first have to know how to draw. They have to look at the surroundings and see everything tri-dimensional, for a better understanding of the object’s form. And trust me, it’s not easy to really learn [...]

Louis Vuitton’s fall collection had these degrade dresses, inspired by paintings, topped off with the typical painter hat. They don’t look that figure friendly to me, but I think it’s very interesting to create volume with color. As a painting student, I am very familiar with gradients, degrades and mixing colors. You get the greatest [...]

Inspiration:

No, her tiny dog didn’t inspire me, but Paris did. Well, never though that would ever happen, but I liked her shirt with a pop art type of self portrait on it. I probably liked it so much because I know how to turn a random photograph into a Pop Art painting using Photoshop.? Here [...]

My classmate Robert just sent me these pictures he took on the last day at school, when we had the last exam at Art History.These are some of my paintings that I did this semester. My teacher graded them all with 10 (1-lowest, 10-highest in Romania, so I guess they are good. I like [...]

I thought the Dior Couture 2007 collection was absolutely breathtaking. It made me wish I was born 100 years ago, in a royal family. These are princess dresses to me!

Dramatic, proud, over the top, this collection makes Marie Antoinette’s dresses seem “easy breezy”, beautiful nevertheless.
I loved the dramatic make-up. Don’t the models look like [...]