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Mattel Releases New Fine Art Dolls. The DaVinci, Van Gogh & Klimt Barbies.
Recently introduced at this year's Toy Fair were three new Barbie dolls by Mattel that pay homage to some of the world's most famous artists. 14th century Master Leonardo Da Vinci, Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh and Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt have been immortalized as soon to be released Barbies. The dolls clothing, make up, hair styles and jewelry are inspired by Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Starry Night and Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.
Not yet in the stores, the dolls are available for pre-order at the links below.
The Da Vinci Barbie
above: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, painted from 15o3-1507
Pre-order the Da Vinci Barbie Doll here
The Klimt Barbie:
above: Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, completed in 1907
Pre-order the Klimt Barbie Doll here
The Van Gogh Barbie:
above: Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, painted in 1887
Pre-order the Van Gogh Barbie Doll here.
special thanks to Carolynn R. Whitford and Michael Williams for the above images
Also available for pre-order are the following soon to be released Barbies for 2011:
The Farrah Fawcett Barbie Doll
The Grace Kelly Barbie Doll
The Rock Hudson & Doris Day Barbie Dolls Giftset
The Frank Sinatra Barbie Doll
The Earth Has Lost An Angel
Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009
Farrah has finally lost her battle with cancer. You can read about it here as well as see some photos from her life
May she rest in peace.
In January of 2008, I wrote a post about artist Keith Edmier and his unusual relationship with Farrah as well as his work inspired by her and their artistic collaboration as well as their sculptures of one another.
Read about their work together, their book and see their sculptures of one another here.
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Keith Edmier: The Fly, Farrah & Now An Exhibit At Bard College
Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett: Recasting Pygmalion
The most comprehensive exhibition to date of this celebrated American artist, Keith Edmier 1991–2007, is on view in the galleries of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, from Saturday, October 20, through Sunday, February 3, 2008.
above: keith edmier
A highlight of the exhibition is the CCS commission Bremen Towne, a full-scale recreation of Edmier’s childhood home. “Edmier’s work is always at the edge of the acceptable boundaries of artistic virtues and taste,” writes curator Tom Eccles, CCS Bard executive director, in the book that accompanies the exhibition.
Concurrently with Keith Edmier 1991–2007, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum presents, Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.
This new installation of the Hessel Collection, curated by White Columns director Matthew Higgs, presents a series of exhibitions in each of the 16 galleries in the newly inaugurated Hessel Museum.
Below are images from Bard College's press release:
And below are pics and a review from the NY Times of this very exhibit:
From left, Artist Keith Edmier's "Beverly Edmier, 1967" (1998), "Sunflower" (1996), and "A Dozen Roses" (1998) are part of the exhibition at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies.
"With a title like an epitaph, sculptures like wax museum effigies, and a full-scale 1970s ranch-house interior, as quiet as a chapel, at its center, this career retrospective of work by Mr. Edmier, an artist who has been exhibiting in New York since 1993 and who was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, is one of the more bizarre solo shows to come along in a while. In it, exacting craftsmanship has the chill of the mortician’s art. Period kitsch and personal recollection are inseparable. Memory is both a truth serum and embalming medium."
Read The Complete Review By Holland Cotter for the NY Times here.
Above: Keith building a replica of his childhood kitchen back in October, 2007
Above: the final installation as it appears in the show, jan. 2008
Above: Installation view of “Bremen Towne” (2006-07), Photo: Chris Kendall
Mr. Edmier was born in Chicago in 1967 and grew up nearby in suburban Tinley Park. He was a formidable sculptor when he was barely into his teens, cooking up clay models for masks and prosthetic devices inspired by horror and monster films. During high school he made contact with special-effects makeup artists.
In 1985, Mr. Edmier moved to Los Angeles to work on films, among them David Cronenberg’s remake of “The Fly.” He also enrolled at California Institute of the Arts, where he had a formative immersion in the neo-conceptualist and appropriation art being grouped under the label of post-modernism. His stay there was short — a year — but it directed his career goals from popular film to art and prompted a relocation to New York City in 1990.
Above: “Beverly Edmier, 1967” (1998), Photo: Andy Keate
Above: detail of Beverly Edmier
The startling sculpture called “Beverly Edmier, 1967,” is another Madonna and Child image, one that takes Mr. Edmier even further back into his past. It’s a life-size figure, cast in translucent pink plastic, of his own pregnant mother carrying him as a fetus curled up in her transparent womb. Like much of Mr. Edmier’s art, it has many referential layers that connect it with larger histories.
Beverly’s seated pose echoes that of Abraham Lincoln, another Illinois resident, in the Lincoln Memorial. And she is dressed in a facsimile of the pink Chanel suit that Jacqueline Kennedy was wearing the day her husband was assassinated.
Keith's resin study for "Beverly" (below) was just auctioned off last month
Artist | Keith Edmier | |
Title | Beverly Edmier (study) | |
Year | 1998 - | |
Medium | acrylic on resin | |
Size | 14 x 6.8 x 9.1 in. / 35.6 x 17.2 x 23.2 cm. | |
Edition | 2/6 | |
Sale Of | Christie's South Kensington: Thursday, December 13, 2007 [Lot 33] Post War & Contemporary Art |
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