All the ladies*…
In Kirsten McCrea’s project named Hot Topic, she takes on the daunting task of painting every single person named in the Le Tigre song of the same name. That’s over 60 portraits of some major feminist icons. That’s three years of painting!
I found out about it over at Art Hound, and was taken aback by the portraits. Full of color and bold lines, they pop and there are so many great people to choose from. But my favorite is Ms. Gertrude Stein. There is such a whimsy to this portrait: all the little whirls that crawl up over her bust and neck, forming almost an Elizabethan collar, the flowers that fade into the top left corner.
I would not mind taking her home…how about you?
Image via Art Hound
*And some nice guys too
Posted September 16, 2011 at 9:12am in Gertrude Stein Kirsten McCrea Le Tigre art portraits Art Hound
The portraits are simply beautiful. It was love at first look for me…
I could not help the reblog. It was instantaneous…
Neat! Ninalee Craig, the woman in Ruth Orkin’s iconic 1951 “American Girl in Italy,” talks about her time being photographed by Ruth Orkin.
She’s now 83 years old. The orange shawl is the same one she wore in the 1951 photo.
Ninalee Craig On Being Photographed by Iconic Photographer
via Reddit
Gorgeous portrait work done by Aaron Smith. The colors completely bowl-me-over…
Found over at Art Hound
This is waaaayyyyyyy cool:
Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.
