Artistic

Vibrant Art

  Playful Abstract Paintings by Yang Yang     Chinese artist Yang Yang’s stunning and playful abstract paintings are inspired by nature, her past work and memories.  Her works are representations of hazy and romantic memories, which have been composed entirely intuitively and with full emotion. The beauty of her abstract pieces are created with a romantic […]

House Beautiful: In the Red Room

“Red”, I write “is the color of life. It’s blood, passion, rage. It’s menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end. Red is the color of love. Beating hearts and hungry lips. Roses, Valentines, cherries. Red is the color of shame. Crimson cheeks and spilled blood. Broken hearts, opened veins. A burning desire to […]

Ballet Beautiful

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. “   – Alan Watts     The National Ballet of Canada, Giselle Svetlana Lunkina © AleKsander Anonijevic Oksana Skorik as Kitri Inna Bilash with Nikita Tchetverikov in Rococo Variations. © Jack Devant. Baynes’ Swan […]

Ballet Beautiful

Studio Life: Pointe, flex, repeat. National Ballet of Canada Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet backstage during La Bayadère ph. Benjamin Millepied instagram.com Dancers of Paris Opera Ballet in rehearsal for La Bayadère (x) Edgar Degas, Musiciens à l’orchestre 1870/71 Dancers of Paris Opera Ballet in rehearsal for La Bayadère (x) Dancers of the Paris Opera […]

Ballet Beautiful

Svetlana Zakharova Rina Kanehara @ English National Ballet (x) Evgenia Obraztsova and Semyon Chudin in Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. (x) English National Ballet, corps de ballet Photo by Laurent Leotard “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”   – Vincent van Gogh       Evgenia […]

Shabby Brocante Charm

Shabby chic, rustic… charming – love it all. Etsy Shop: Burlap Luxe Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903) Farmer eating her soup (Paysanne mangeant sa soupe), N/D Watercolor Burlap Luxe Andi LaVine Arnovitz- Artist- Andi considers herself a printmaker, a paper-manipulator, a bookmaker and an assemblage artist. brooklynmuseum.org Juanan Requena  via:brocantebyursi via:brocantebyursi Etsy Shop: Burlap Luxe AREK SZWED Arek […]

Elegante’

“I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.” — Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry via:croathia Ana Turazashvili by  Alexander Yakovlev Harper’s Bazaar UK  June 2016 Yumi Lambert by Erik Madigan Heck by  andreagentl “A soft warm wind blew back the petals; confused the waters; ruffled […]