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.