The Art of Fashion

surprisingly, i had a hard time with this. i love art. more than i love jewelry right now. when i travel, i will always seek out the art museums. contemporary is my favorite, but i've been to the louvre 3 times. (however, the last time i did it in 30 minutes. i really get sick of old art. i don't need to see that many pictures of jesus.)

anyway, i just had a really hard time with this. my original thought was to go with a kiki smith piece. i love kiki smith. she is one of my favorite artists of all times. i was so sad to lose a book of hers from an installation in venice in my breakup. but it was kind of a trade for another artist's book. ahhhh.... all's fair in love and art, right? but i decided that the piece i want to make inspired by kiki smith is too personal for me to have to describe on this blog. at least right now. i did start work on it, but i want to take my time with it.

so instead, i chose the swing by jean-honore fragonard. i love this painting. i really enjoy most rococo art. it's so over the top and lovely, with a bit of subversion thrown in for good measure. from this website

The young nobleman is not only getting an interesting view up the lady's skirt,
but she is being pushed into this position by her priest-lover, shown in the
rear.

my piece is a long necklace with an antiqued brass oval adorned with a ton of little flowers laquered purple. i was going to do blue, but i liked the shade of purple better. i wish i had gone more over the top and make the whole necklace the little flowers. i think it would have been so much more rococo. but i had to punch out those little flowers by hand. (they are 30g. sterling. the punch is a paper punch from joann's. i have a ton of them! but they can be pretty hard to punch out.)

and here is lora hart's entry this week. i love it!

and oh my. mike and rachelle kind of blew me out of the water with this one.

rachelle says

This is my inspiration.Odilon Redon. (French, 1840-1916). L'Oeil, comme un
ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini (The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts
Toward Infinity). (1882). Lithograph

it's sterling silver, fashion lashes, beadalon, patina

and mike's is so so good!

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