[MarkWar]

Boy oh boy. The "fringes" of society sure have changed!

How many of the people on the fringes of our society could produce stuff like this?

Mark W.

[goody2shooz]

I'm an art historian by education and training. This woman has been one of my favorite artists since the first time I ever saw one of her works.

Somehow I'm not surprised about her background but I am surprised to find she died in California as recently as 1980.

[lonevoice]

I really like most of her work. But, perhaps she was feeling a little too on the fringes when she painted this one...

[weikel]

Shows how stupid the art establishment is this stuff is good and most of the stuff they like is crap.

[dighton]

Tamara de Lempicka at CGFA.

Click on thumbnails for full-sized images.

[jrherreid]

I saw her paintings for the first time about a year ago. Very impressive, although I personally don't care much for the Art Deco style.

[Bush2000]

"I live on the fringe of society and the rules of normal society have no currrency for those on the fringe."

You could just as easily attribute those words to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

[Sabertooth]

Bump

[MarkWar]

ping for people from the beatnik thread...

Mark W.

[MarkWar]

ping from La belle Polonaise to LaBelleDameSansMerci

Mark W.

[x]

The painting is not without interest, but the talk about "decadence" and the "fringes" and "the rules of normal society not applying" is a great bore. We may want to believe that yesterday's avant garde lifestyles were stimulating and transgressive and liberating and the real thing, but in the end, was decadent living really such a great thing then or now? The art may have been better or fresher, but it's doubtful that the livestyle was.

I like the line in the chronology about her adopting the style of modern art in the early sixties and beginning to work with a spatula. It may be a serious critical observation, but it reminds me too much of a Woody Allen parody.

[ikanakattara]

Thank you for posting this! These paintings are beautiful.