shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 19 2007 | books, art, new york, architecture
Fascinating paintings by an artist from the 1920s who was essentially 'predicting' what NY and other metropolises would look like in the future. All the buildings look a little like the Chrysler building and some of these are weirdly accurate.
Quoted: Pick up a reprinting of a 1929 book by Hugh Ferriss titled 'The Metropolis of Tomorrow.' Ferriss was the preeminent architectural draftsman of his time who, through moody renderings of skyscrapers, virtually invented the image of Gotham.
ShareViewed: 11 Times- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 03 2007 | art, books
This book (“The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles”) sounds so interesting. I had no idea Gaugin and van Gogh had such a tumultuous friendship...
Mom, I think you'd really enjoy this!Quoted: Vincent van Gogh’s favorite color was yellow; Paul Gauguin’s was red. It was not a trivial difference. It pertains to the clashing, deeply complementary temperaments of two painters whose idiosyncrasies, inseparable from their talents and ideas, became keynotes of modern art and templates of artistic personality.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2007 | books, art, news
Ha, I like that half these books are on how to have bad manners. Funny trend...
Quoted: Babies are born rude. It is their keepers’ duty to transform them from loud house guests to charming people.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2006 | art, books
Okay, I am definitely going to this. The Very Hungry Caterpillar used to be one of my favorite books! I also really want to check out his art at the Tacoma Museum...
Thanks Sumit!
Quoted: Please join us for a special evening featuring the very talented creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1967) and more than seventy other captivating picture books. More than seventy million hungry young readers around the world have consumed Carle's delightful stories and images, a selection of which can be seen in the fall Tacoma Art Museum exhibit The Art of Eric Carle.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 09 2006 | books, art
Books of Wonder is a beautiful children's bookstore in NY... a great place to study (probably because it's attached to a cupcake cafe with pretty good pie & coffee:)) If you can get your book stocked by them, you're in pretty good shape! They also have cool vintage books and posters of illustrations from classics...
- shiwani - Sep 14 2007
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