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| Photo from TMC exhibition website. |
Yesterday, a very rainy Saturday, we went to the Textile Museum of Canada to see their latest show. Entitled Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol, it is a large and beautiful exhibit of some the 20th century's greatest known artists' work in commercial fashion and furnishing textile design. I highly recommend catching this before it closes in October. I was stunned at the depth. Besides the very famous title artists there is Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Dali, Matisse, Jean Miro and many more. Who knew they all designed for the fabric industry?
I was particularly delighted to see one piece each by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell as I am currently reading a history of the Bloomsbury group. Isn't it funny how life offers up little coincidences like that?
A point made in my current reading that is not mentioned anywhere in the TMC supporting text, is that these artists often undertook this type of work for the money. Ah yes, dirty lucre. It's easy to sneer at such "commercialism" but if not for it, we wouldn't have today viewing access to work of such wide ranging styles and periods in a boutique museum in a Canadian city. Of that I am sure.
Against the rules, I snuck a few photos.
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| Upper left: Duncan Grant, Lower right: Vanessa Bell |
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| I would look great in these. Just saying. |
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| My fella's favourite: Pablo Picasso, Toros y Toreros, (1963) for Bloomcraft Fabrics. © Courtesy Target Gallery / Fashion and Textile Museum London www.ftmlondon.org |
1 comment:
Interesting Pictures at the Museum. I can remember my mother whether that style of dress when I was growing up!
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