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Cuba
at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Renoir
Landscapes
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The Artists' Techniques
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Bottero and Laramée at the museum
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Art &
Artists
Original or Reproduction?
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Figurative or Abstract Art?
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The Mediums
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Encaustic Painting
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Art Price and Artist
Value
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Do you need to insure
your art works and how?
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Yves Saint-Laurent, the artist
The
virtuoso of haute couture, the creator, the colourist, the
marvellous Yves Saint-Laurent. You suspect that we return from the
exhibition Yves Saint-Laurent at the Montréal Museum of Fine
Arts who presents a forty-year retrospective of the Maison Haute
Couture Yves Saint-Laurent, underlining the innovative character of
his work that has definitely influenced the history, strongly
inspired by famous artists of his time.
Elegance, movement, dynamism! A creator who gave agility to women,
who accentuated the shapes of their body, who dared the change, with
elegance and beauty. He was a revolutionist of his kind; he was the
one who introduced the pantsuit… so women could get into the men’s
world with elegance and comfort.
His
journeys came down to look at pictures of different countries and
let his mind roamed and his hands draw innumerable sketches inspired
by these images. Few lines and you could see a dress emerged to the
tendencies of India, Japan, Africa, Spain or Russia. And the hats!
Yves Saint-Laurent was dressing the woman from head to foot,
choosing the proper hat, sometimes extravagant; the sober shoe or
the boot which would be epoch-making; jewels that will round off the
outfit with audacity or delicacy.
How
colourful too! My memories were with black, the preferred colour of
Yves Saint-Laurent. But still there he put his mark, juxtaposing the
red and the orange; the blue and the black; the pink and the green.
He turned the range of colours upside down, he dared.
And
this man, who in his young age would have liked to create costumes
for the theatre, showed all his flamboyance while paying homage to
the artists he admired: a jacket inspired of the irises and
sunflowers of Van Gogh, day dresses “à la” Mondrian, evening dresses
where Braque, Warhol, Matisse and Picasso would have recognized
their works.
A
spectacular work that of Yves Saint-Laurent. Rich, inspiring, the
work of an artist, a creator where the line, the colour, the
imagination take the place entirely.
To see at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts until September 28, 2008.
July 18, 2008 |
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Decoration
One
painting, two mouldings
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Where in the House
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The art of framing
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Can we mix styles?
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I redecorated my home,
where should I hang my artworks?
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Formats,
colours, and walls.
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Framing Posters
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Pages from a
snow board magazine,
mounted on a mat, laminated and framed |
You finally have your home cinema, or your pool room, or
your wine room with a cellar. It is fantastic the
project is completed and you now only have to finalize
the decoration. Your teenagers want to pin on the wall
the posters of their favourite groups or their favourite
sport and thus make holes in the walls that are freshly
painted. There are other solutions than strict
interdiction. With a small budget we can, as shown in
the examples presented here, frame these priceless
images and by such keep your walls undamaged. Don’t
forget that the value of a document is what it is worth
for the owner. Once framed it will look great and will
even bring more satisfaction.
Poster from a
show, glazed
and
framed with a mat |
Poster glazed and
framed with a V grove mat |
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Posters glazed and
framed with an artistic mat
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Poster from a catalogue
glazed and framed
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