Artist and his Model ~ Picasso and Bardot

Martha and Stripes

The other day I had dinner with painter Martha Diamond in Chinatown. I have known her for almost 5 years but I have never been to her studio. I was delighted when she invited me to stop by her studio after dinner. When she showed me her latest paintings, I gasped! In my opinion, they are amazing! So elegant and androgynous, they positively vibrate electric energy. The people who know me, know that I am obsessed with wearing striped jerseys, some friends complain that I give them vertigo. My boyfriend gets mad when we go into a store and I find a striped T-shirt, actually I am wearing one as we speak. So naturally, I went nuts for Martha's Paintings. I must have one!
her studio
some of her tools

The Artist and her Studio - Tracey Emin

I am blown away.
In a good way.

The Artist and his Studio. Alex Katz. 2009

Alex Katz is 81, works every day and his brain is like a 45 year old.
That just shows again that age is just a state of mind.
He looks great.

This picture was a tiny insert in the current J.Crew Catalog.
If you look carefully, you can see a drawing that Alex made of me for a large scale painting.
2nd on the right on top, with the necklace.
I snuck in the finished painting on which this sketch, that was in the J.Crew Catalog was based.


I know when I get old I won't be huffing it in sweats and orthopedic shoes either.

The Artist and his Studio. Picasso. 20th Century

Years ago I found an old french magazine from the 60's in Paris that had the first picture of this blog on it.
I never forgot it.
Picasso looks so... well, like Picasso.
That got me thinking that I really wanted to use it on my blog, it was today or never.
Interesting how everything is commercialised these days, check out the post above this one.
I recently received the new J.Crew Catalog in the mail and my friend Alex Katz (who has been painting me on and off for the past 2 years and we have had a lot of fun because he likes to chat while he paints because he doesn't want the models to turn into statues) is on the cover and has several pages in the men's section.
And then the Costume Institute Metropolitan Museum is having an Exhibition coming up: The Model as Muse; embodying fashion.
Can't wait to see that one!









Paloma, Claude, Picasso, La Californie, Cannes (1957)
Images courtesy of de Pury & Luxembourg, Geneva




THE STUDIO AT 'LA CALIFORNIE', Pablo Picasso, March 30, 1956
© 2001 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York





Pablo Picasso in the studio with Brigitte Bardot, 1958