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jdrachel · 3 months

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(via Chiang Mai, Thailand: Illusion Art Museum | John Rachel) On our recent visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand, Masumi and I discovered one of the most spectacular art museums I've ever encountered ... the Illusion Art Museum. https://jdrachel.com/2023/08/25/chiang-mai-thailand-illusion-art-museum/

#Thailand #Chiang Mai #Illusion Art Museum #travel

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mineirando · 4 days

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"Allegory of Simulation" (1650), by Lorenzo Lippi (1606-1665).

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fashionsfromhistory · 2 years

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George Philip Meier

Early 1920s

Indianapolis Museum of Art (Accession Number: 76.299)

#dress #fashion history #historical fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #george philip meier #1920 #1921 #1922 #1923 #green #chiffon #satin #lace #united states #indianapolis #indiana #indianapolis museum of art #love the pants illusion

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kingrosalani · 1 month

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This was a hilarious time

#trippy #museums #museum of illusions #illusions #art #hilarious times #neurodivergent #friends #Kansas City

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neverenoughknowledge · 2 years

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prague, czech republic (2022)

just some random photos from illusion art museum prague which i visited in february this year ♡

also, i'm really looking forward to posting more education related posts later. i start my uni course officially on tuesday and i'm both very excited and worried at the same time!

(september 24, 2022)

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annoyingpersonpoetrysworld · 1 year

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#perspective #illusion #illusion museum #photo #photoblog #wroclaw #original art #art #artists on tumblr #freetime #museum #trip with me

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harrisx28 · 2 years

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The Museum of Illusions in Philadelphia

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ryanbrumfield · 2 months

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#photography #art #columbus #museum #cat #optical illusion

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misterlemonztenth · 2 months

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02-14-24 | lisahewitt. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

#misterlemonztenth #repost #lisahewitt #broken post #optical illusion #digital art #museum #painting #verycoolphoto

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trixivsworld · 1 year

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#albert einstein #art #picture #photoart #museum #illusion #zoomin #pretty

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thingstol00kat · 1 year

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Robyn Horn: Material Illusions

Museum of Craft & Design, SF

October 2022

#Robyn horn #material illusions #museum of craft and design #San Francisco #woodwork #art #2022expo #exhibit #exhibition

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blasphemousfool · 1 year

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Infinity Mirrored room at Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas.

#art #museum #mirrors #illusion

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sheltiechicago · 2 years

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Take a Swing Around ‘Par Excellence Redux,’ a Mini Golf Course of Playable Artworks at Elmhurst Art Museum

Now open at the Elmhurst Art Museum is Par Excellence Redux, a miniature golf course featuring a widely varied collection of playable artworks. Curated by Colossal’s founder and editor-in-chief Christopher Jobson as part of an open call, the two-part course pays homage to the wildly popular Par Excellence that opened in 1988 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The designs range from a challenging optical illusion to a maze-like castle with the potential for a hole-in-one to Annalee Koehn’s fortune-telling piece first shown 33 years ago in the initial exhibition.

#elmhurst art museum #par excellence redux #miniature golf course #playable artworks #school of the art institute of chicago #optical illusion #art #golf

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homomenhommes · 3 months

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The Louvre

The images depict a scene from a Parisian museum during the mid-1800s, showcasing young athletes in the midst of practicing their poses for the museum’s “Morning Visits” program. These practice sessions were held after hours so as not to draw attention from the public. The Morning Visits were an exclusive offering of select museums in Paris in the mid-19th century, allowing fag & sissy patrons to observe the male form in a setting of classical beauty and art.

The work for these young men was physically demanding; maintaining the perfect poise and grace of a sculpture required not only muscle control but also an exceptional level of endurance. Their diligence in practice was crucial, as even the slightest movement could disrupt the illusion of life imitating art. Due to the physical strain involved in striking and holding these poses, the Morning Visits were deliberately kept brief, lasting only one hour.

This practice not only illustrated the strength and discipline of the athletes but also reflected the era’s fascination with the aesthetics of the human form, blending artistry with a performance that would be etched in the annals of Parisian cultural history.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Congratulations and hug from HomoArt Lovers 🌹

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girlsdressingrooms · 2 months

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Iris Barrel Apfel, Decorator and Fashion Stylist

(August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024)

Ms. Apfel was one of the most vivacious personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design, she has cultivated a personal style that is both witty and exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Her originality was typically revealed in her mixing of high and low fashions—Dior haute couture with flea market finds, nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments with Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers.

With remarkable panache and discernment, she combines colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, and, ultimately, aesthetic conventions. Paradoxically, her richly layered combinations—even at their most extreme and baroque—project a boldly graphic modernity.

Iris Barrel was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Samuel Barrel, who owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women's Wear Daily, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson, decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items before opening her own design firm. She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

As a distinguished collector and authority on antique fabrics, Iris Apfel has consulted on numerous restoration projects that include work at the White House that spanned nine presidencies from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

Along with her husband, Carl, she founded Old World Weavers, an international textile manufacturing company and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialized in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute assembled 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from her personal collection in 2005 in a show about her called “Rara Avis”.

Almost overnight, Ms. Apfel became an international celebrity of pop fashion.

Ms. Apfel was seen in a television commercial for the French car DS 3, became the face of the Australian fashion brand Blue Illusion, and began a collaboration with the start-up WiseWear. A year later, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her image. Last year, she appeared in a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London.

Six years after the Met show she started her fashion line "Rara Avis" with the Home Shopping Network.

She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Ms. Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel, teaching about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

In 2018, she published “Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon,” an autobiographical collection of musings, anecdotes and observations on life and style.

Ms. Apfel’s apartments in New York and Palm Beach were full of furnishings and tchotchkes that might have come from a Luis Buñuel film: porcelain cats, plush toys, statuary, ornate vases, gilt mirrors, fake fruit, stuffed parrots, paintings by Velázquez and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a mannequin on an ostrich.

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Ms. Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings.

Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality, It’s was a trend.

Rest in Power !

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annoyingpersonpoetrysworld · 2 years

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#art #original art #beautiful #freetime #my photo #incredible views #photoblog #photography #painting #illusion #storm #colour #frame #blue wave #ocean waves #incredible #wroclaw #illusion museum

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