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June 27, 2012
 I fell in love with yet another of the Surrealists! To know me is to know I am totally fickle! If you think, about the idea of shocking someone’s morals and code of ethics via a painting, then you are to understand going from the Cubists to the Surrealists. The movements look quite a lot alike, and are
in fact very similar in their reference to how one sees the world, in a sort of spur of the moment kind of way. picabia is another that went from the Dadists to Surrealism.
I hope you enjoy this post!
Have a great day!
Love,
Jamie
Francis Picabia was a French painter, illustrator, designer, writer and editor, who was successively involved with the art movements Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. He was the son of a Cuban diplomat father and a French mother.
 In 1909 he adopted a Cubist style, and, along with Marcel Duchamp, he helped found in 1911 the Section d’Or, a group of Cubist artists. Picabia went on to combine the Cubist style
 with its more lyrical variation known as Orphism.
In these early paintings he portrayed assemblages of closely fitted, metallic-looking abstract shapes. As Picabia moved away from Cubism to
Orphism, his colors and shapes became softer.
In 1915 Picabia traveled to New York, where he, Duchamp, and Man Ray began to develop what became known as an American version of Dada.
About 1916 he gave up the Cubist style completely and began to produce the images of satiric, machine like contrivances that are his chief contribution to Dadaism. Their association of mechanistic forms with sexual allusions were successfully shocking satires of bourgeois values.
In 1916 Picabia returned to Europe. He settled in Barcelona, where he published the first issues of his own satiric journal 391 (named in reference to the New York review). In 1921 he renounced Dada on the grounds that it was no longer vital and had lost its capacity to shock.
June 26, 2012
 I was introduced to the work of Yves Tanguy buy a curator friend of mine! Knowing that Surrealism is one of my favorites, introduced me to this  artist’s work. A bit Dali, a bit de Chirico. you will see how this movement really was very true to the tenants that they subscribed to.
I hope you enjoy this post,
Love,
Jamie
French painter. Recognized by the late 1930s as a representative of the purest strain of Surrealism in painting, he was the only one of the great painters of that
movement to be entirely self-taught. Although he was a fellow pupil at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris of Pierre Matisse, who later became his dealer, he came to painting comparatively late in life, after spending two years with the Merchant Navy. After a long period spent with the African Chasseurs in the south of Tunisia, Tanguy
returned to Paris in 1922 and renewed contact with Prévert, also meeting the French writer Marcel Duhamel (1900–66), who provided accommodation for them at
54 Rue du Château.
Tanguy was profoundly shaken by his discovery in 1923 of a painting by Giorgio de Chirico, Child’s Skull (1914; Stockholm, Mod. Mus.), in a gallery window.
This encounter spurred him to produce his own first works, which were executed in a fairly naive Expressionist style but in which flashes of fantasy could also be glimpsed
 Although the sensationalist overstatement of Salvador Dalí created a greater impact on the general public, Tanguy’s work proved more influential on the young
painters who came to Surrealism on the eve of World War II, such as Wolfgang Paalen, Roberto Matta, the Englishman Gordon Max Onslow-Ford  and the Spaniard
Esteban and on the development of ‘absolute’ automatism.
June 25, 2012
 Still on the Surrealist kick and today’s post is one of thee most famous and for me the most interesting.
Enjoy your day!
Love,
Jamie
“To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are  broken it will
enter the regions of childhood
vision and dream.”
Giorgio de Chirico was a pioneer in the revival of Classicism that flourished into a Europe-wide phenomenon in the 1920s. His own interest was likely encouraged by his childhood experiences
of being raised in Greece by Italian parents. And, while living in Paris in the 1910s, his homesickness may have led to the mysterious, classically- inspired
pictures of empty town squares for
which he is best known
De Chirico is most famous for the eerie mood and strange artificiality of the cityscapes he painted in the 1910s. Their great achievement lies in the fact that he
treats the scenes not as
conventional cityscapes – as perspectives on places full of movement and everyday incident – but rather as the kinds of haunted streets we might encounter in dreams.
They are backdrops
for pregnant symbols or even, at times, for collections of objects that resemble still lifes. De Chirico’s innovative approach to these pictures – an approach rather
 like that of a theatrical set
designer – has encouraged critics to describe them as “dream writings
June 22, 2012
 Fritz Bultman (April 4, 1919 – July 20, 1985) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists.
I was not familiar with the work of FRTIZ BULTMAN until recently and thought you would love this artist! I hope you enjoy his work and this post! have a great day!
Love,
Jamie
His family was prominent in New Orleans where his father owned a Catholic funeral company. By the age of thirteen he was interested in art, and worked with Morris Graves who was a family friend.[ As a high school junior in 1935 Fritz went to study in Munich for two years and there boarded with Maria Hofmann, the wife of artist and teacher Hans Hoffman . His early paintings have been described as “rough and painterly”, an amalgam of symbolism and geometry.
Bultman was exhibiting with other abstract expressionists by the late 1940s, and in 1950 was aligned with the group of New York School artists, nicknamed the “Irascibles” . Affected by anxiety and depression, Bultman worked little between 1952 and 1956, and resumed painting and sculpting after undergoing Freudian analysis. At a time when African American were prohibited from visiting white museums in the south, in 1963 Bultman and his wife led a group of prominent New York artists and writers in the creation of a collection of modern art  for Tougaloo College a black institution in Jackson, Mississippi
To Robert Motherwell ,Bultman was “one of the most splendid, radiant and inspired painters of my generation.”and David Houston, curator of the Ogden museum of Southern Art in New Orleans called him “an important artist from the South who was part of that great moment that changed the American cultural landscape.”
June 21, 2012
So, today’s post is on a fashion icon, that not only was a taste and stylemaker but really set the tone for how we dress, how we view fashion and now interiors!
This post comes about in a wonderfully full circle kind of way! While I have been  “working” at the Kips Bay Show House, I have had the pleasure of being asked if “I am the same Jamie Herzlinger that designed women’s fashions”? Then the conversation at lunch one day was with an ex-editor of a fashion magazine from many years  ago, who brought up the subject of my family, actually my mother, Nan Herzlinger, having been a very well known fashion designer, durning the age of Diana Vreeland at the helm of Vogue, Manning, who was one of the most famous fashion illustrators, Bernadine Morris  who was legendary at the New York Times and the story continued. I am writing this today at of a dear fondness for where and how life goes full circle and those of us having come from the fashion industry have such fond memories.
I was raised in such a fashion family, at a time when women’s sportswear coincided with women’s independence. The 1960′s and 1970′s were paramount for all types of artistic expressions. Think to the artists of that time, the music, the writer’s and especially the fashion designers!
So this ode is to a sensational ground breaking time, (and actually to my mother as Mother’s day was just this past Sunday), which I had the sincere pleasure of witnessing. Diana Vreeland I recall with much admiration as I remember her well. Especially the infamous ads for Blackglamma Mink. She was a legend and I think it is always wonderful to know an industry’s past icons that helped it become what it is today! My Mother was extremely fond of her and Diana’s will and style are very reminiscent of my Mother.
Diana Vreeland was at Bazaar first and became introduced to her readers through her signature epigrammatic style with the “Why Don’t You?” column, which she began writing in august of 1936. ”Why don’t you…turn your child into an Infanta for a fancy-dress party?” she asked readers. Her credo was: don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?
At Bazaar, Vreeland reinvented the job of fashion editor. she chose the american Clothes to be featured in the magazine, oversaw the photography and worked with the models.
I hope you enjoy this piece of history, mine too!
Enjoy!
Love,
Jamie
June 19, 2012
 I figured while on a kick of Surrealism, I would stay here and bring you enough of the best artists of this time, or shall I say most recognized, so that you have a great understanding of their work and the importance of it.
Keep in mind dadism came before Surrealism, but both are answers artistically, to the events post WWI and WWII. Trying to make sense of the  destruction
and misery, the answer appeared to find levity and to sort things from reality and distort them and see what would happen. A great artist, Max Ernst, who had a
most interesting life, is whom I’ve chosen today.
I hope you enjoy this post!
Have a wonderful day!
Love,
Jamie
Born in Germany in 1891. Ernst is a leading figure of Dada and Surrealist Movements; an artist with a vast range of techniques. As a young man, he studied the
art of patients at mental asylums to understand and try to make sense of what they saw.
After his wartime service in 1918 he began to develop his own style of collages although he exhibited his first painting at the German Autumn Salon of 1913.
During the early 1920′s Ernst invented what was called frottage; pencil rubbings on paper on canvas.
Ernst developed a fascination with birds and this became a recurrent theme in his work.
In 1936 Ernst met the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and lived with her until 1940 when he was arrested by the Nazis. Carrington went to Spain hoping to obtain a visa for Ernest, but whilst there she suffered a mental breakdown. Upon his release from Prison Camp Ernest met Peggy Guggenheim who arranged for Ernst’s escape from France and passage to America.
In 1942 Guggenheim and Ernst were married although it did not last and in 1956 he married Dorothea Tanning. Ernest continued living in the USA until 1953
 when he returned to Paris. In 1954 he won the Venice Biennale and from this point gained some financial success.
Ernest was acquainted with Paul Klee, collaborated with Joan Miro and had a lifelong friendship with Jean Arp.
Ernst died in Paris at the age of 85 years.
June 15, 2012
 I know you all know the photograph of the urinal and the origins of the conversation that came after the exhibition, where Marcel Duchamp presented it as art. Thus arose the question of “what is art” and “what constitutes art?”
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some  to be one of the most important artists
of the 20th century, Duchamp’s output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim
and other prominent figures,
thereby helping to shape the tastes of art during this period.
Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and  art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions.
June 14, 2012
 I have been traveling for a solid two months-so to tell you all what a supreme pleasure it is to sit at MY desk and not on a laptop to write  this blog, is just fantastic!
You all know that I am beyond in love with Surrealism and abstract expressionism.
To understand surrealism, a breif idea is this:
The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power
of the imagination.
Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced bySigmund Freud, the Surrealists believed the conscious mind repressed the power of the
imagination, weighting it
down with taboos. Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to  reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution. Their emphasis on the
power of the imagination puts them in the tradition of Romanticism, but unlike their forbears, they believed that revelations could be found on the street and in everyday life. The Surrealist
 impulse to tap the subconscious mind, and their interests in myth and primitivism, went on to shape theAbstract Expressionists, and they remain influential today.
Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter and printmaker. He was, with René Magritte, one of the major exponents of SURREALISM in  Belgium. He began his training
in 1920 at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,
initially as an architect, but he soon changed to decorative painting, and he completed his studies in 1924. In his earliest works, he was strongly influenced by the Flemish Expressionism of
painters such as Constant Permeke and Gustav De Smet. In the mid-1930s, however, he turned decisively to Surrealism, not as an orthodox member of the movement but to a large extent under
 the influence of Giorgio De Chirico’s Pittura Metafisica, which he had first seen c. 1926.
June 13, 2012
 For all the years I have been in love with architecture, one of my top favorites has always been Tom Kundig, of Olson Kundig. He is true to his practice, form concrete, steel, glass, a metal
He never misses. I should start a fan club! I am in the midst of a project, and was having a total ADD meltdown,
so naturally I go to my library to get grounded, and pull Kundig’s book out,
one of them I should say, and then in this months Architectural Digest they have a piece on him
I always get asked “if I could choose” yup, I would have Kundig design a house for me, and be beyond thrilled. He is thee guy!
Ok, here is the story of Tom Kundig, the photos tell you really all you need to know
Kundig’s work encompasses residential, commercial and institutional
and is located around the world. His signature detailing and raw, kinetic construction explore new forms of engagement  with site and landscape, which he frames in the workings of unique, building-size machines. In his houses, which are quickly becoming recognized as modern-day classics, brute strength and tactile refinement are held in perfect equilibrium. Recent projects and current projects include the mixed-use Art Stable and 1111 E. Pike, Le Massif de de Charlevoix master plan, a gravity-fed winery in the Naramata Bench of British Columbia, adaptive reuse of the Georgetown Brewing Company and Nissan Stadium Seattle, the Rolling Huts and private residences in Spain and throughout North America, including the Pierre, Shadowboxx, Studio Sitges and Outpost.
In 2006, Princeton Architectural Press released Tom Kundig: Houses; the book is one of the Press’s bestselling architecture books of all time. Kundig has been published in over 250 publications worldwide, including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal,
Enjoy!
Love,
Jamie
June 8, 2012
A few months ago, I was looking through Lonny Mag and was stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a beautiful painting. The magazine did an much deserving article on this young artists! Her is a little about this talent. I hope you enjoy her work as much as I do!
Love,
Jamie
Jenna Snyder Phillips was born and raised in Philadelphia later at the age of 19 she moved to New York City to attend Parsons the New School of Design, where she studied Interior Design and Architecture. After graduating she began working for Ian Schrager Company, assisting the Art Curator for the Gramercy Park Hotel. There she began hanging paintings and learned first hand how art has the ability to transform any space.
 In 2006 Jenna furthered her studies by moving to Milan, Italy where she obtained her masters in Interior Design.
Currently, she is living in New York and painting from her Tribeca studio. She pushed her mediums to the limit. Jenna works with sumi ink, oil and charcoal. Through the years, Jenna has developed a signature style using fluid brush strokes and harsh lines.
This is one artist to keep and eye on!
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