This week's Top Five Crushes focuses on our favourite paintings. We find each an inspiration and thought you may like to take a peek at what makes us tick...
Tina by J.H. Lynch
Bet you didn't know her name is Tina, right?
This iconic piece from the 1960's was created by J.H.Lynch. He didn't like the lime light so kept himself to himself for many many years, leaving only a signature on his beautiful paintings and a lot of questions un-answered. We think his work is incredible and reminds us of our Grandmothers house! We recommend clicking the link if you want to know more, but sometimes things are better left a secret :)
Bet you didn't know her name is Tina, right?
This iconic piece from the 1960's was created by J.H.Lynch. He didn't like the lime light so kept himself to himself for many many years, leaving only a signature on his beautiful paintings and a lot of questions un-answered. We think his work is incredible and reminds us of our Grandmothers house! We recommend clicking the link if you want to know more, but sometimes things are better left a secret :)
That's right, its only a painting of a pipe!
Magritte's painting is one which still blows us away even though we got taught all about it in school. It is so clever and really reminds us to put things into perspective. Magritte isn't just a painter, he is a great Agony Aunt too! Hee hee
In The Car by Lichtenstein
We owe a lot to Pop Art and are both very attached to this image. How chic is she? How Dick Tracy is he? Not only are we in awe and dreaming to be so tasteful when we get older, but we also think this is the image Don and Betty Draper were based upon. Being of the era, Mad Men really hit the spot with Lichtenstein's masterpiece. The comic book style breaks our hearts; a cult classic.
We owe a lot to Pop Art and are both very attached to this image. How chic is she? How Dick Tracy is he? Not only are we in awe and dreaming to be so tasteful when we get older, but we also think this is the image Don and Betty Draper were based upon. Being of the era, Mad Men really hit the spot with Lichtenstein's masterpiece. The comic book style breaks our hearts; a cult classic.
L.H.O.O.Q by Duchamp
Not so much a painting, more a doodle on a postcard of a painting - what do you expect from Duchamp? This particular readymade was highly tongue in cheek of its day. Here Duchamp gives Mona Lisa a moustache rendering her a little cheeky and subsequently starting a new artistic movement. Who knew that was what we were doing to our magazines when bored! By making the gender of the Mona Lisa ambiguous, Duchamp claimed to present his audience with a new perspective at a classic work of art. Many saw it as an attack on the artwork and to traditional painting and with a title like L.H.O.O.Q ("She has a hot ass") We are not surprised! Naughty boy!
Not so much a painting, more a doodle on a postcard of a painting - what do you expect from Duchamp? This particular readymade was highly tongue in cheek of its day. Here Duchamp gives Mona Lisa a moustache rendering her a little cheeky and subsequently starting a new artistic movement. Who knew that was what we were doing to our magazines when bored! By making the gender of the Mona Lisa ambiguous, Duchamp claimed to present his audience with a new perspective at a classic work of art. Many saw it as an attack on the artwork and to traditional painting and with a title like L.H.O.O.Q ("She has a hot ass") We are not surprised! Naughty boy!
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai
There is many versions of this sensational wave and it is easy to see why; it is simply beautiful. So fierce and intense yet so simple in execution it is hard not to love something with such passion. We wish we could see the world the way Hokusai did!
There is many versions of this sensational wave and it is easy to see why; it is simply beautiful. So fierce and intense yet so simple in execution it is hard not to love something with such passion. We wish we could see the world the way Hokusai did!
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