Artistic

Paris Opera Ballet

  *  * * PARIS OPERA BALLET * *   Beautiful photos from the Paris Opera Ballet’s production of “Swan Lake”. * *      * *  * *    * *      * *   instagram www.operadeparis.fr

rouge

“Put a rouge in the limelight and he will act like an honest man”   – Napoleon Bonaparte  via:thetailorsdesire toa.st Frayed crimson velvet \ via:theswedishfurniture “She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and in her ears she wore two feathered appliances resembling surfcasting jigs especially appetizing […]

In the Blue Room

* * Blue, blue, blu-tiful. A little blue room inspiration. * * Highland House Furniture. Stylish Customizable Upholstered Bed. William Morris via:thefoodogatemyhomework via:decorology Tile staircase Antigua via:ovelylife E.J. Victor Furniture.  Captivating Composition. Detail of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889) Ralph Lauren Collection by E.J. Victor Furniture.  Dreamy Escape. via:foreverchampagneiglikes Betsey Nelson , Finally a Cloud via:thefullerview Architectural Digest via:isuwannee.com […]

Ballet Dream

Leanne Sexton Photo by Keith Dixon Bolshoi Ballet,  Aleksandr Taranov and Xenia Barbasheva via:youtube * * * “I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”   – Albert Camus, The Fall  * * *   The Australian Ballet in The Dream 1969 Olga Smirnova […]

beautiful day

Wishing you and yours a happy, beautiful, elegant and graceful holiday. English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake in-the-round (x) DANCERS ANNA TSYGANKOVA AND JOZEF VARGA IN GISELLE – HET NATIONAL BALLET – PHOTO BY SASHA GOULIAEV (ALEX GOULIAEV). Kristina Shapran Vaganova student Alena Mashinceva. from her ig. English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake in-the-round (x) Bayerisches Staatsballett‘s Lucia […]

Heirloom Anthology

Heirloom Anthology by Christine Hilbert of Etsy Shop: “Bean & The Sprout” Heirloom Anthology is a series of mixed media sketches and paintings derived from collections of keepsakes.  Christine Hilbert: “I use a hybrid of techniques including pencil drawings and watercolors combined with a cache of heirloom bits and baubles to create a two dimensional archive of […]

Ballet Beautiful

Oksana Skorik as Raymonda Iana Salenko (x) Studio work with Melissa Hamilton and Jiri Bubenicek. Dresden SemperOper Ballett Ian Whalen Photography Iana Salenko (x) Rudolf Nureyev and Doreen Wells before a performance for the Ballet Hongroise. (Photo by Victor Blackman/Express/Getty Images). 1st July 1966. Oksana Skorik as Raymonda Oksana Skorik as Raymonda Diana Vishneva in “Live”, Amsterdam 2015. […]

Vintage Details

variations in one color via:sweetpeapath Dressn1895-1899 The Metropolitan Museum of Art French, Dressing jacket (19th Century) via:faflodine via:freestylehippiesoul Drawing on a stock of more than 6,000 colors of thread, a nun repairs a tapestry designed by Raphael, in which Peter receives the keys to the church from Christ. —From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, […]