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Monday, January 27, 2014

FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE MUSEUM...


The Brooklyn Museum was built in 1985. The Beaux-Arts building, is a steel frame structure build to the standars of classical masonry, designed by the famous architectural firm of KcKim, Mead, and White a prominent American architectural firm which thrived at the turn of the twentieth century, and built by the Carlin construction Company.

Located on the 200 Eastern Parkway,  the Brooklyn Museum, which opened in 1987 , is the New York City's second largest in physical size and  is well know for its expensive collections of Egyptian and African art, in addition to 17th-18th, and 20th- century paintings, sculture and decorative arts throughout a wide range of schools, with roughly 1.5 million works.






Since its launch in Montreal in 2011, "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk," curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot, has traveled the world. And now it is at the Brooklyn Museum, where you have the opportunity to see the exhibition, which includes a new section devoted to Jean Paul Gaultier's muses scenes. 





  • Paolo Roversi (Italian, b. 1947). Tanel Bedrossiantz, 1992. Digital print, 15 x 12 in. (38.3 x 30.8 cm). Jean Paul Gaultier’s “Barbès” women’s ready-to-wear fall-winter collection of 1984–85. © Paolo Roversi


If you are in New York, do not miss the opportunity to see the amazing exhibition with digital mannequins, and where the creativity and the irreverent style of this French designer is the protagonist. The exhibition will be until through February 23, 2014.  











Monday, January 13, 2014

PEEPING ON THE WINTER EYES...




  • "Every person should know what colors are becoming to it; these will always be its subjective colors and their complements"..., Johannes Itten


Photo by Joe Marino


Last fall I posted an article named, "peeping inside the eyes", that was the first of a series of four articles where I write about how people's tones, specifically looking through their eyes, are related to the four seasons of the year. But today I want to invite you, to peep into the winter's eyes, for you to discover if you, like me, belong to this group.

Magic is the right word to describe this winter season of the year; I love to see the snow fall, and walk under it, the sensation at this moment, to me, it's like I am getting blessings from heaven.  I also love seeing the color hues on the sky and over the snow, produced by the sunlight and reflections of the moon, and then after several days of snow and melting, seeing the light effects on the crystallized ice, feeling that the temperature of the colors is deep, clear, and cool, and I feel that I am part of them.





Everyone is born with an inclination toward certain colors. In my particular case, I have always been attracted to cool colors, all tones ranging from pure white, through all shades of gray to black, but at the same time I have had a weakness for 'tints', I mean whites with a drop of color, as well as to strong tones, with a blue undertone.

So if you feel attracted to winter colors, exactly for those clear, vivid, and icy tones from the winter season, like in the picture above, with blue undertones, it is much more likely that you, like me, belong to the group of  persons who are classified as winters.



Photo by Unknown

  • Nature is the most brilliant designer of all, and the secret is on the season. Each season presents a distinct array of color, and your coloring is in harmony with one of this palletes.


The genes that determine your skin tone, hair, and eye color also determine what colors look best on you. The winter person's eyes are often a deep color. They may be red-brown, black-brown, Hazel, gray-blue, gray-green, or dark blue. Observe the photos below to see if, like me, your eyes are part of this select group.



Photo by Leif Westling

Dark blue eyes.



Photo by Peter Bower

Dark blue eyes with gray rim.



Photo by Zed Andrews


Blue eyes with white flecks in iris (may have gray rim).



Photo by Teter Unterweger

Gray-blue eyes with hazy appearance in the iris

Gray - blue eyes.



Photo by Unknown

Grey - green eyes.



Photo by Adrienn Józan

Green with white flecks in the iris (may have gray rim).



Photo by *Gjoa

Hazel eyes (gray-brown plus green or blue).



Photo by Janina Kulcsar

Black - brown eyes.



Photo by Unknow

Dark red - brown eyes



This seasonal color theory was inspired by the studies of Swiss-born artist, art educator and colorist, Johannes Itten (1888-1967) of the famous Bauhaus school in Germany. He discovered the power of physical coloring in directing a student’s choice of color in his paintings.  He noted that a student’s personal colors were consistently those complementary to his skin tone, hair and eyes, in both tone and intensity. 

After years of observation and documentation, he emphatically states in his book, The elements of color, that: "Every person should know what colors are becoming to it; these will always be its subjective colors and their complements". 

Itten proposed a natural correspondence between the four seasons of the year. He stated, "I have never yet found anyone who failed to identify each or any season correctly. This demonstrates that above individual taste, there is a higher judgment in man, which, once appealed to, sustains what has general validity and overrules mere sentimental prejudice."

So Itten concluded that our personal palette, the one to which we are drawn naturally, consists of the very colors that look best on us. 
  • You can wear almost any color; it's the shade and intensity that count. Winter's colors are clear, vivid, or icy with blue undertones.