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Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing perceptions before nature, especially as applied to landscape painting.The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s in spite of harsh opposition from the art community in France. The name of the style is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; open composition; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time); common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience; and unusual visual angles. The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
Tim Walker
Timothy "Tim" Walker (born in England, 1970) is a British fashion photographer.
Tim Walker’s photographs have appeared in Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his style. After concentrating on the photographic still for 15 years, Tim Walker has begun directing short films.
On graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photography assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England, he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions ever since. The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include the photographs of Tim Walker in their permanent collections. He staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum in London in the spring of 2008, coinciding with the publication of his book ‘Pictures’. In November 2008, Walker received the ‘Isabella Blow award for Fashion Creator’ by The British Fashion Council and, in May 2009, he received an Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in New York for his work as a fashion photographer.
Tim Walker's photography is often described as surreal. British Vogue has a long history of collaborating with Surrealist's. Already in 1930's Man Ray, Cecil Beaton and other photographers used Surrealist ideas to express themselves on the pages of British Vogue. Fashion photographers see themselves as artists, their work is barely related to fashion products at all. Fashion is very playful and fashion photography gives photographers the means and possibilities to express their ideas.
Walker's photography is irrational and extravagant in a sweet dream like way. He has been influenced by the Surrealist's, who used to Vogue already in the 1930's. Before even studying photography, Walker worked in Vogue with Beaton's archive. But when Surrealism came into fashion it was with fervour. Overtaking the fashion arts with zeal, Surrealism has never left. Ideas about presentation in magazines, window displays and apparel have changed in the intervening years, but Surrealism remains fashion's favourite art. Fashion and it's instruments were at the art of Surrealist metaphor, touching on the imaginary of woman and the correlation between the world of real objects and the life of objects in the mind. - Richard Martin- Fashion and Surrealism
"All of my photos are linked to the things that have made me dream as a kid."
"It made me appreciate that colourful, fairytale- like world of the British Vogue- photographer even more."
"...Why you see all those- Alice in Wonderland- like settings. Walker likes to play with perspectives, by using huge props in his photos."
{http://www.triin.info/2009/08/tim-walker-vogue-and-surrealism.html}
Alexander Mcqueen-
The men’s collection features khaki wool felt tailoring, flannel shirting and heavy ribbed sweaters with military detailing.
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| 'Year of the Dragon' Tim Walker |
Timothy "Tim" Walker (born in England, 1970) is a British fashion photographer.
Tim Walker’s photographs have appeared in Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his style. After concentrating on the photographic still for 15 years, Tim Walker has begun directing short films.
On graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photography assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England, he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue, and has photographed for the British, Italian, and American editions ever since. The Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London include the photographs of Tim Walker in their permanent collections. He staged his first major exhibition at the Design Museum in London in the spring of 2008, coinciding with the publication of his book ‘Pictures’. In November 2008, Walker received the ‘Isabella Blow award for Fashion Creator’ by The British Fashion Council and, in May 2009, he received an Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in New York for his work as a fashion photographer.
Tim Walker's photography is often described as surreal. British Vogue has a long history of collaborating with Surrealist's. Already in 1930's Man Ray, Cecil Beaton and other photographers used Surrealist ideas to express themselves on the pages of British Vogue. Fashion photographers see themselves as artists, their work is barely related to fashion products at all. Fashion is very playful and fashion photography gives photographers the means and possibilities to express their ideas.
Walker's photography is irrational and extravagant in a sweet dream like way. He has been influenced by the Surrealist's, who used to Vogue already in the 1930's. Before even studying photography, Walker worked in Vogue with Beaton's archive. But when Surrealism came into fashion it was with fervour. Overtaking the fashion arts with zeal, Surrealism has never left. Ideas about presentation in magazines, window displays and apparel have changed in the intervening years, but Surrealism remains fashion's favourite art. Fashion and it's instruments were at the art of Surrealist metaphor, touching on the imaginary of woman and the correlation between the world of real objects and the life of objects in the mind. - Richard Martin- Fashion and Surrealism
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| 'Lady Grey' Vogue Fahion Photoshoot- Tim Walker |
His work draws the attention of people who are very strange to fashion. His work seems not be about fashion but about something else, something much deeper, about culture and history. Muir who is a photographic historian says in his foreword to Walker's book 'Pictures' that it is inescapable that there is a streak of Surrealism in Walker's pictures. Muir says that this is the genial Surrealism of Margritte rather than the ambiguous, sexually charged tableaux of Dali. At its most intoxicating, it's that particular British notion of Surrealism as slapstick, endless summer fun; Beaton's era again, perhaps, when those who were lucky enough to have emerged from the Great War unscathed were still ignorant to the storm clouds gathering again.-
"All of my photos are linked to the things that have made me dream as a kid."
"It made me appreciate that colourful, fairytale- like world of the British Vogue- photographer even more."
"...Why you see all those- Alice in Wonderland- like settings. Walker likes to play with perspectives, by using huge props in his photos."
{http://www.triin.info/2009/08/tim-walker-vogue-and-surrealism.html}
Alexander Mcqueen-
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows. He is also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the Council of International Fashion Designers Award's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.
Autumn Winter 2012 Collection- The collection is about a love story, a love of McQueen and a love of great British style – from military coats to overblown ball gowns.
Sharp tailoring. A nipped in waist with a masculine dropped shoulder and an exaggerated hip gives an hourglass silhouette for women.
{Alexander Mcqueen A/W 2012- Via Youtube}
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| Alexander Mcqueen Autumn Winter 2012 Collection |
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Alexander Mcqueen- Autumn Winter 2012 Collection
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Mirror Mirror-
Mirror Mirror is a 2012 comedy fantasy film based on ‘’Snow White’’ by the Brothers Grimm. It is directed by Tarsem Singh and stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, and Sean Bean. The costumes were designed by Eiko Ishioka.
{Mirror Mirror Trailer- Via Youtube}
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| Still From Mirror Mirror |
Costumes designed by: Eduardo Castro
Once Upon A Time is our new fairytale drama from Edward Kitsisand Adam Horowitz, the team behind Lost and Tron: Legacy.
Emma Swan knows how to take care of herself. She's a 28-year-old who has been fending for herself ever since she was abandoned as a baby.
But everything changes when Henry - the son she gave up years ago - finds her. Henry is now 10 years old and in desperate need of his birth mother's help. He believes that Emma comes from an alternate world and that she is Snow White and Prince Charming's missing daughter.
According to the book of fairytales that he was given by his teacher Mary Margaret, they sent her away to protect her from the Evil Queen's curse, which trapped the characters of fairytale world forever and brought them into our world.
Emma instantly dismisses Henry's theory, but when she brings him back to Storybrooke, she finds herself drawn to this unusual boy and this strange town. Concerned for his welfare, she decides to stay for a while longer, but she soon suspects that Storybrooke is more than it seems.
It's a place where magic has been forgotten, but where fairytale characters are alive, even though they don't remember who they once were and where the Evil Queen, known as Regina, is now Henry's adoptive mother.
In order to understand where the fairytale world's former inhabitants came from and what led to the Evil Queen's wrath, you'll need to take a glimpse into their previous lives. But it might just turn everything you've ever believed about these characters upside down. Meanwhile, the epic battle for the future of all worlds is about to begin. For good to win, Emma will have to accept her destiny and fight like hell.
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| {'Once Upon A Time' - Via Channel Five} |
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