Pauline Boty was one of the original British Pop Artists. Judging from the scant information about her on the internet, not only was she artist but she also was a steady and stylish fixture in the 1960′s British Carnaby scene. She attended the Royal College of Art and palled around with David Hockney, Peter Blake, and fashion designers like Celia Birtwell. She even danced on shows like Ready Steady Go! and acted a bit in movies such as (my personal favorite) Alfie avec Michael Caine. It helps to be a fox.

Boty’s reputation may have slipped into relative obscurity, but she created some pretty cool paintings before she died in 1966. Just like Eve Hesse, she died super young from cancer, at 28.

I want to see “Pop Goes the Easel,” Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary on the British Pop Art scene. If you’ll recall, Russell shot the stylish deco-inspired film “The Boyfriend” that stared Twiggy.

Reference:
Colin Robinson
The Guardian
Writing Room
Art and the 60′s exhibit at the Tate

I want some affordable art for my apartment. A poster, an art print, a painted reproduction. It’s sort of daunting narrowing down all the images in mind to something I want to see daily. Nothing too obvious, too cliche, too everywhere.

I recently purchased two reproductions of Teorema and Contempt posters from Japan that look amazing. I will post pix after I frame them.

Began my morning trying to narrow down which era, style, artist, and image I’d want to call my own. Which led me to the 1960′s Pop Art archives of the internets where I discovered some unfamiliar names like the work of Sister Corita Kent.

Yes, a graphic designing silk screening type wizard nun. Cool, no?

reference:
Supercozy
Greg Cookland

A few months ago I moved studios. I no longer share with Rebecca Turbow and her growing fashion entourage. No hate, just sayin. Now, when I’m not at Brand New School, I’m a few blocks away above one of my favorite vintage stores, 10 ft Single by Stella Dallas and near Union Pool (which I never seem to go to anymore).

I’m sharing with Chris Palazzo, whom most days I actually see at BNS, not the studio. He’s a motion graphics art directing wizard of sorts. Here is an homage to his wackiness. Soon I’ll post photos of our huge new digs.

art. avec lots of pyramids:

I’ve been thinking about illustration as 3-dimensional object a lot recently. Not just art on products, but art on wooden shapes, paintings on toys, Calder’s circus, illustrator and painter as sculptor. Below are some images by the 60s pop artist Marisol. I like how her figures are relatively simple arrangements of cubes and, what appears to be found objects, combined with faces and clothing painted on flat surfaces. Very simple, childlike, playful, dada.

(MISSING IMAGE. BLAME FLICKR!!!)

Louis Wain was a dude who drew a lot of cats and over the years went totally bonkers. As he increasingly lost his mind his anthropomorphic depictions of cats began to look more menacing, more abstracted, and eventually look like total drugs. Psychedelic fractals. Insanity personified? Or what a particular someone thinks your visions look like while on DMT. I haven’t done such a thing, so I can’t really confirm.

Louis Wain Flickr Group

I rarely have a chance to hand write much of anything these days. No more in-class note taking, no real letter writing. Maybe that’s why, when I do write in my daily planner, it appears in all caps. I take my time to make each letter look nice. Like Aaron Cometbus or David Shrigley, I like how words in all capital letters look on the page.

Today while reading the Times, I came across the work of Leanne Shapton. She’s a multitasking artist/illustrator/writer from Toronto now living in New York. And she is very fond of handlettered capitals.

Did you know she did the Kicking and Screaming Criterion Collection cover? Very nice.

image from: design related.