3 Stunning Artists
Come on a wee art tour with me. 3 women artists whose work you must see! Exciting, surreal, restful, subversive and jazz-age dreamy.
Dear Beautiful Friends,
Yesterday, I arrived an hour late for a 90-minute Zoom course on how to rest in restlessness.
I dropped in for the final, eyes-closed, feeling-into-it meditation-y portion of the class.
Let it be known: Whenever I’m asked to “breathe deeply, close your eyes and—” every fiber of my body shrieks: I DON’T WANT TO. I like my eyes wide open at all times, except when I sleep.
I wasn’t ready to rest, so I turned off my video, and went searching for three female artists I recently “met” while writing a Beauty Hunter piece on Art During Pre/Wartime (coming next week).
It was all so beautiful, I had to show you. Ready?
Say hello to Maria Mallo!
WOW, right? The artwork of Mexican surrealist Maruja Mallo has been blowing my mind for days. Serene, sublime, spirit-tickling, searching, and in a style that traversed time in the most astonishing, exquisite ways.
See this slideshow of her work.
That’s one of her pieces at the top of the page. I could rest into it all day long. How can I close my eyes when there’s so much beauty to see? Thankfully, our teacher said that however we used the time was perfect for us. A+ all around!
Come on down, Florine Stettheimer!
Florine Stettheimer was an American modernist painter, feminist, theatrical designer, poet, and salon host. MOMA describes her work as a “Jazz Age Dream.” She was also a set designer for ballets and operas, and FLORINE is my new favorite name.
There’s a great video tour of “Family Portrait” here.
You can see a slideshow of her work here.
Check out the “thrilling” Stettheimer biography, published in 2022: Florine Stettheimer: A Biography (ArtForum review).
Get a load of Sonia Delaunay!
Meet “Helice,” a mural by Sonia Delaunay, created for the Aviation pavilion at Expo 1937, Paris.
I love how the pastel propeller and romantic steampunk design so beautifully and playfully floats on a cornflower blue. It might be a war plane, and at the showing, they were only two yeas from WWII, but I find this piece fetching.
Delaunay painted in a style called orphism, an offshoot of cubism that focused on bright colors and abstraction, and coined by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912.
Treat yourself to the visual deliciousness in this lookbook of Orphic beauties.
Read & see more about Sonia Delaunay here.
Check out this New York Times piece on Delaunay’s visual abstractions (gift article). She made wearable art!
I have five more weeks to practice resting into my restlessness. Perhaps I’ll do it with a little help from my beautiful art-making friends.
What did you think of the art?
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