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Throwback Thursday: Les Graphiquants

Cuir à Paris 

For this week’s Women We Love Wednesday, we highlight Fanny Eaton

Fanny Eaton was a black Victorian Londoner and, for some time, painter’s model. Born in Jamaica in 1835, Eaton was the daughter of an ex-slave and, it is suspected, a white slave owner. She came to London in the 1840s and began modelling in her twenties. It has been discovered that she was working as a regular portrait model at the Royal Academy, which is potentially where she caught the attention of the many renowned painters of the era she sat for. - AnOther Magazine

Art Fan Friday: Paula Crown

For this week’s Man Crush Monday, ESP PR highlights Matt Mignanelli, 

Using acrylic and enamel paints, artist Matt Mignanelli freehandedly creates graphic, abstract paintings that transform upon every glance. Physically moving around a black-on-black painting of a cubic grid will reveal layers of optical illusions, while simply blinking when standing in front of a canvas covered in a complex navy-and-white pattern tricks the eye into seeing an oscillating, three-dimensional piece of art. Each piece of Mignanelli's work depicts polygons of various shapes and sizes (with only the slightest occasional curve), yet they also always finds their roots in reality—most frequently architecture and light. -- Interview Magazine

This week’s Man Crush Monday,  ESP PR highlights László Moholy-Nagy,

László Moholy-Nagy, born in 1895 in Borsód, Austria-Hungary, believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social transformation, working hand in hand with technology for the betterment of humanity. A multifaceted artist, educator, and prolific writer, Moholy-Nagy experimented across mediums, moving fluidly between the fine and applied arts, pursuing his quest to illuminate the interrelatedness of life, art, and technology. Among his radical innovations were his experiments with cameraless photographs (which he dubbed “photograms”); unconventional use of industrial materials in painting and sculpture; experiments with light, transparency, space, and motion across mediums; and his work at the forefront of abstraction. -- Guggenheim

‘Non-Objective Painting’ is currently on vie at the Guggenheim until July 10, 2016.  

Art Fan Friday: Brutalist Sculpture and Architecture 

"I became increasingly fascinated by the visionary buildings and bold housing estates that grew out of the bombed remnants of London’s east end. Not always a comfortable fit in their postwar Victorian surroundings, these new concrete buildings and social-housing developments looked, at times, as though they had descended from another planet to colonize Earth" -- Peter Chadwick