VOYAGE

Cruise the ocean and the horizon....A voyage through the sea and the sky. Among the clouds and the gulls. A boat trip to remember.

Its one of my art creations for my shop PlayTheArtBox, made from : Cardboard paper box, gouache colors, pastels, color pencils, lots of care and love. An original art creation with a lot of different layers of cardboard paper which gives a 3d effect, creating playful shadows with light.

 

Voyage by PlayThe ArtBox 2013

Koop - Koop Island Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji0xDg6EVvI
Listen to this music , it's the story behind the image
Lyrics to Koop Islands Blues from Ane Brun:

 

Hello my love
It's getting cold on this island
I'm sad alone
I'm so sad on my own
The truth is

We were much too young
Now I'm looking for you
Or anyone like you

We said goodbye
With the smile on our faces
Now you're alone
You're so sad on your own
The truth is
We run out of time
Now you're looking for me
Or anyone like me

Na na na na…

Hello my love
It's getting cold on this island
I'm sad alone
I'm so sad on my own
The truth is
We were much too young
Now I'm looking for you
Or anyone like you

Voyage by PlayThe Art Box

And of course it reminds me the sea, diving into the blue ocean, from the work of Lorenzo Mattoti one of my favorite artists.

Lorenzo Mattotti was born in 1954. After studying architecture, he decided to devote himself to comics and is recognised today as one of the most outstanding international exponents of the art. His works have been published in the most important magazines and his books are translated all over the world.

 

illustrations from Lorenzo Mattoti

The sailor

At a starry night, my sailor watches a small boat on the high seas...

 Its one of my art creations for my shop PlayTheArtBox, made from : Cardboard paper box, gouache colors, pastels, color pencils, lots of care and love. An original art creation with a lot of different layers of cardboard paper which gives a 3d effect, creating playful shadows with light.

The sailor by PlayTheArtBox 2013

 My sailor was inspired by the poems of Nikos Kavvadias and the paintings of Yiannis Tsarouxis. 

The Fog- a poem from Nikos Kavvadias

 The fog fell with the evening
-- the lightship lost --
and you arrived unexpected
in the pilot-house to see me.

You are wearing all white and you're wet, I'm plaiting your hair into ropes.
Down in the waters of Port Pegassu
It always rains this season.

The stoker is watching us
with both feet in the chains.
Never look at the antennas
in a storm; you'll get dizzy.

The boatswain curses the weather
and Tokopilla is so far away.
Rather than fearing and waiting
better at the periscope and the torpedo.

Go! You deserve firm land.
You came to see me and yet see me you didn't
I have since midnight drowned

Nikos Kavvadias (1910-1975)

a thousand miles beyond the Hebrides......

 

 

Nikos Kavvadias

was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who used his travels around the world as a sailor, and life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yiannis Tsarouchis

 

 Born in Piraeus, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1929–1935). He was also a student of Photios Kontoglou, who introduced him to Byzantine iconography, while he also studied popular architecture and dressing customs. Together with Dimitris Pikionis, Kontoglou and Angeliki Hatzimichali he led the movement for the introduction of Greek tradition in painting. From 1935 to 1936 he visited Istanbul, Paris and Italy. He came in contact with the Renaissance art and Impressionism. He discovered the works of Theophilos Hatzimihail and met influential artists such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti.

Yiannis Tsarouchis (1929-1935)

 

FEMME

Femme
The woman laying on the sofa is a work i created, inspired by a 1926 photo of Andre Kertesz. The woman's name was Magda. 
Its one of my art creations for my shop PlayTheArtBox, made from : Cardboard paper box, gouache colors, pastels, color pencils, lots of care and love. An original art creation with a lot of different layers of cardboard paper which gives a 3d effect, creating playful shadows with light.
This art creation has a story to tell... made from Maria Milonaki - teacher , writer and a friend http://logotexnia.wordpress.com/about/

Femme by PlayTheArtBox 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

SHE dropped the glass with the drink in it on the boudoir and as the music was still playing on the turntable, she lay on the couch .. with a bitter smile, thinking .... Why do I still think of him ... was he not just another lover on my long list ..  love is nothing but a storm in the absurdity of waiting for death ... I forget him ... do i?

 

satiric dancer 1926

The satiric dancer (1926) 
 Like other photographers who took dance as a subject, André Kertész appreciated the ability of the camera to capture "people in motion . . . the moment when something changes into something else." He made this image in the Paris studio of a fellow Hungarian emigré, the sculptor István Beöthy. The subject is the Hungarian dancer and cabaret performer Magda Förstner. In a playful response to Beöthy's sculpture on the left, she strikes a pose on the couch.
 Satiric Dancer embodies the jazzy exuberance of Paris in the 1920s, or at least our romantic idea of it. Beyond that, says the photographer Sylvia Plachy, who is based in New York City and was a friend of Kertész’s, "it's an amazing composition. He caught that particular moment when everything is in perfect harmony."

Andre Kertesz

André Kertész (1894-1985)
Was born in Budapest in 1894, and by the time he died in New York City 91 years later, he'd been in and out of fashion a few times. He made his name in Paris in the 1920s, and the long American chapter of his life, beginning in 1936, would have been tragic if not for a comeback at the end. In his late 60s, he started making new photographs, reprinting old ones, publishing books and polishing his faded reputation. Now he's golden. In 1997, a picture he made in 1926—a less than 4 x 4-inch still life of a pipe and eyeglasses belonging to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian—sold at auction for $376,500, among the highest prices ever paid for a photograph.