Playful Picasso

“Youth has no Age”

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Picasso is such a vast subject that is daunting to say anything at all…I am always foremost touched by his playfulness and humor, despite the forcefulness of everything he did. Picasso’s monumental legacy is hard to grasp, perhaps he was a “Monstre Sacré” in many ways, but I see that as an achievement…His long life spanned most of the 20th century and he recorded it in his art.

“A day without laughter is a wasted day”. This motto shows in so many photographs of Picasso in his daily life. Sitting at the breakfast table, seeing art and wit in everyday objects:

Picasso1Photograph by Robert Doisneau – home baked croissants as hands…

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Sturm und Drang

How Goethe’s poetry and prose seduced me to love the German language…

“I love those who yearn for the impossible”

GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

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My Personal Top 10 of Female Singers – No 1

…in no particular order & with my favorite recording…

Number One: Maria Callas

callasMaria Callas 1923-1977

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Never a Bad Hair Day…

The enduring glamour of a fabulous “updo”

I bemoan the (nearly) lost art of chic updo’s, and I don’t mean the “nonchalant” versions of today, I mean the really unbelievably intricate glamorous hairdo’s of ladies of all ages, as a daily look, not just for your wedding day or a special occasion. In my Paris neighborhood hair salon, one girl is still specialized in the art of the weekly “updo” for many ladies.

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Real or Surreal?

Model, Muse & Artist

The Amazing Life of Lee Miller

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Lee Miller, self portrait 1932

What would I have given to have lived in Paris in the 1920’s and 1930’s..every artist, writer, photographer, socialite, thinker and person of interest congregated there…American beauty Lee Miller epitomizes all of the aspects of those heady days, where all was possible, and much was invented…Impossibly beautiful, she was an avant garde “It Girl” with brains and talent.

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