Sarah Jaffray 🍂さんのイラストまとめ

On this 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death let us give pause & contemplation to the elegant af uniforms he made his soldiers wear. Velvet trousers? Red lined cape matching under-armour, different polishes of metal - the fashion detail!

Géricault, Wounded Cuirassier, 1814

Working on French Revolution, getting mesmerised by the variety of marks & subtle volumes created in this Vigée Le Brun drawing (det.) of Marie Antoinette in theatrical dress @metmuseum The artist used stumping to diffuse the ruffled dress sleeve & tree leaves in the background.

Late night work, fully immersed in 18th c Venice & my fave GB Tiepolo drawing (c.1760). The wash is so perfectly controlled, the ink marks are both blurred and precise. It is both silly and beautiful. @britishmuseum

This morning's content Ida Applebroog & her series 'Mercy Hospital' (1969-70): 5 notebooks filled with #drawings from the artist's time in psychiatric care. Applebroog shares this work as a way to demystify illness & empower exploration of inner realities through making.

Been a bit fashion obsessed lately. Today building a lecture on propaganda of absolute monarchy & Louis XIV (age 14) declaring himself the sun in a 13-hr long, overnight ballet (Le ballet de la nuit, 1653) seems to be a good example. Louis's costumes by Henri de Gissey.

Käthe Kollwitz, Bread! (1924), lithograph. Part of the print portfolio entitled 'Starvation' made to raise money for Workers International Relief, an organisation created 'neutralise the agitation caused by international capitalism'.

Me trying to sleep in January 2021.

Also, me attempting a meme.

(perhaps better know as Meret Oppenheim's Portrait de femme, les yeux, 1965, ink on paper)

Unabashed love for this record, which (she says in a dorky muso voice) is what it is because it is mostly a collaboration with Luther Vandross. And I want to steal those bangles.

And this hand is a treatise on painting.

Today, I build a lecture on Baroque art, materiality & process with a dash of art market.

Details from engravings by Jan Harmensz. Muller (after P.P. Rubens) of Archduchess Isabella (of Spanish Netherlands), 1615.