Dancing to the Beat of Your Own Drummer

I chose this picture because really, who doesn't think of Soul Train when they think of rhythm?

 I love when art and math line up! I've written before about Fibonacci's Sequence and the Golden Ratio in art. Now scientists have found evidence of fractals in the rhythm of hundreds of famous compositions. They theorize that the human brain internalizes these patterns in nature and represents it in its creative outputs, including the rhythm of a song. The sequence is altered slightly by a composer's unique rhythmic signature -- not unlike the slight variations between individuals' handwriting! 

How amazing is it to think of beauty as an objective fractal that we each participate in through the particulars of our subjective experience? Amazing!

Monday Match: Mellow Yellow Edition

{Every week I post an image of an interior that reminds me of a work of art either in its palette, composition or mood. I hope that you enjoy!}

Room from an ad for curtains (found here)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, A Young Girl Reading

* I'd love to spend my morning off reading(and maybe napping)in my favorite chair. Happy Presidents' Day, Friends!

Happy Looong Weekend!

I hope that everyone has fun plans lined up for the long weekend! I will be getting a few last details in place for my little art show on Tuesday. I'm not going to lie though, the thing that I'm looking forward to the most is picking out my new fridge! Yeah, I'm boring myself too. Anyway, Happy Happy Weekend Friends! You deserve it.

Reference

I try to paint as much from life as possible. (My talented sister interviewed me a little about it for Apartment Therapy here.) That being said, I am really looking forward to seeing the Phillips Collection’s exhibition, “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard." The Washington Post wrote an intriguing review here. I can't wait to see how these different artists used photography in their work, and promise to share my review here next week.

Stair Song

Have you seen this? It's like the floor piano scene in Big, only for every day life! Now can these people please invent a game that will make drinking water more fun? 

Drum Roll Please!

AND THE WINNER IS...

Congratulations!!! I hope that you enjoy your new cards! Please send your snail mail address to nicolebourgea(at)gmail(dot)com so that I can ship the pack your way.

Thank you for playing, Friends. I hope that you all have the sweetest Valentine's Day yet!

Monday Match: Confidence Edition

{Every week I post an image of an interior that reminds me of a work of art either in its palette, composition or mood}

Sylvie Rochon

William Strang, Lady with the Red Hat

*This room first reminded me of Strang's painting because the red table is so similar in color and silhouette to the lady's hat. But the more I studied the two, I realized that this match is really based on the particular stance of confidence portrayed in both the interior and the portrait.

Strang's Lady looks at us directly over the curve of her shoulder. We imagine that she is a woman who is almost defiantly herself. The room emits a similar presence. The curves of the two tables and the chair bend toward us and back toward the center of the room. It is quirky style is thoroughly its own: difficult to define but alluring nonetheless.