Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam.
“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.
A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”
so many Andy warhol reincarnations in the Melbourne arts scene 🤢
More from Luo Yang, chronicler of modern Chinese youth, depicting a generation of women that don’t ascribe to Western stereotypes or the expectations of their elders.
Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei), Playing with a Cat, 1930.
This is listed as Takahashi Hiroshi but I know of know such artist and think it must be Takahashi Hiroaki
Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei) was born on January 2, 1871, in Tokyo with the given name of Takahashi Katsutaro. He was trained in Nihonga - traditional Japanese painting - by his uncle Matsumoto Fuko. In the literature the artist is usually called Takahashi Shotei or just Shotei.
Le ballon by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) - (Allégorie de la défense de Paris), 187.
Connie and the girls backstage at the House of Sweet Charity Ball at Palladium. Photographed by Tina Paul in 1990.
