Art Linked with Clothing, Part 1
We are taking an excursion here because art linked with clothing falls into a number of different categories ‒ some that we have seen, and some that are coming later. Our plan is to do some sampling from a website called “Artfully Awear”. It is a blog by the American Ariel Adkins. A good introduction comes directly from artfullyawear.com itself as follows: “Ariel Adkins’s mission is to be a living work of art each day. Creator of Artfully Awear, a movement dovetailing art and clothing, Ariel produces garments inspired by artwork from all different genres, mediums, and eras, all over the world.” Before we start we anticipate a triple payoff: seeing the artworks, seeing the model in clothes inspired by the artwork, and learning context and background.
The Artfully Awear blog is organized chronologically, like an archive, and you can choose to view a current blog post or any other post going back to 2010. We will start in 2017 showing Adkins painting a dress in the style of a wall painting visible in the background by Miljan Suknovic.
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How would you categorize the painting? Perhaps lyrical abstraction?
Museo Jumex
Another blog post from early 2017 refers to a trip to an art exhibition in Mexico City. A group of Mexican expatriate artists formed a group in the 1960’s that they named General Idea. Some of their large scale works were shown in the Museo Jumex, which is devoted to rotating exhibits of contemporary art, Look at the artwork based on repeated use of a ziggurat shape ‒ with the model dressed similarly.
Outdoors, large inflated drug capsules, also by the group General Idea, float above the Museo Jumex plaza. They qualify as both public art and kinetic art and draw attention to the high flying pharmaceutical industry. Do you see an unusually shaped building in the background? It is the nearby Museo Soumaya devoted to traditional art of Mexico and Europe.
