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Even now, on Sundays, all around Paris, street musicians strive to keep alive the affection and wit of the City’s Belle Epoque and avant garde heyday. They pass around the lyrics of their songs to a loyal following; and, for a few minutes, the heart and soul, the promise and difficulty of modern experience comes to life. Continue reading
Rolling into the Design Exchange is the first instalment of a long-overdue revitalization of this Toronto facility. The initiative leads off with New York graphic designer, Stefan Sagmeister, and his take on the heartbeat of design practice, which he calls, “The Happy Show.” Pictured above is the entryway to the show, whereby viewers click out a gumball from the dispenser at the level (running from 1 to 10) of the happiness magnitude that seems to cover their state of affairs. Continue reading
In France, during the art deco era (1910-1939), there was an amazing output of lithographically illustrated books. A great example of this treasure is the grand format (20″ x 15 1/2″) accompaniment, by Milivoj Uzelac, for a limited edition of “20 Chansons [Songs, Poems],” by Albert Willemetze, dating from 1933, which we are so happy to possess (instance 194/350) and share with you.
The text (“en douce”— “with gentleness”), for the first plate, runs, “…I was born I don’t know how. I didn’t know my mama…”
Willemetze’s program is suffused with the dark side of the City of Light (Paris). But it is—a bit like the dark side of Charlotte in the recent film, The Paperboy—a process of “bad taste” being at the same time “good faith.” The aura of fecund gentleness is well captured by the supernal features of the lithos. Continue reading
In the early 1980′s the Seagram Corporation developed a beverage museum on the premises of the first Seagram Distillery, in Waterloo, Ontario. This was a cavernous structure for ageing the spirits, replete with barrels in place as they were in the 19th century. Continue reading
Not terribly unlike the situation for daring artists today, attempting to garner a critical mass of enthusiasts from out of a populace rabid for dubious sensations, Pierre Bonnard found himself on a slippery slope. Continue reading
Is there such a thing as a crazily violent movie that beckons an audience to the farthest reaches of reflection? Continue reading
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and print-maker acutely committed to avant-garde efforts as commonly designated Art Nouveau. His special take upon the matter became known as Les Nabis, a concentration upon delicate minutiae of figures and settings, and the play of light and color, as evoking a hushed, pristine energy. Continue reading
When I was in High School, I came upon—by way of Time Magazine, of all things—the paintings of Paul Delvaux. Continue reading
Here we are, all impressed by the passage of another year and the advent of a world changing fast.
We’re not going into the ominous connotations of that sentence—all too pressing for each of us. Instead, let’s delight in fine things percolating, but by way of the happy anticipations of other eras, as captured by great graphic designs. Continue reading
This being a season of sensual overload, I hope we’re all ready to consider how physical textures speak to us in a language we’re seldom alert to. For instance, the donkey I like very much and visit very often provides a special bundle of compositional, chromatic, tactile, illuminative and kinetic aspects one can read by reference to one’s own processes of delight in the world. Continue reading
