"Water acts like a leveller, stripping us back to the bare essentials. Underwater, there is no reflection on the eyes as the water mixes with the liquid surface, like it’s washing away the mask we wear on land."

After a long time without posting on my blog, here is a sweet "welcome back" treat for all my friends vintage & photography lovers:

After quite a long silence here on my blog, I am finally feeling like sharing some colorful art with you - a short selection of my favorite works by Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French artist and print maker. When I looked up his biography I was amazed that such energetically vivid and color bursting paintings were created by an artist with an extremely vulnerable character, with numerous depression episodes through his life.

If you ask me about my favorite nude photography series of the XX century the answer will be "IN MY ROOM" by Soul Leiter.

Just making small aesthetic gifts to myself since my birthday is getting closer… With the hope that you, my friends, find them pleasant to see as well)

There were days (it’s hard to believe now) when you didn’t have to be obsessively politically correct while creating advertisements and you could be just compulsively and spontaneously genius, from time to time)

For me Gustave Courbet is a symbol of someone who knows how to stand up for himself and for his talent. Self secure and sure about what he was doing. Ready to stand up even against the powerful Academy of Arts and Paris Art Salon that refused his paintings due to their "indecent" character. He fought and he won! His stunning "Woman with the Parrot" was finally excepted for the collective exhibition of 1866… Something that Courbet later called a "punch in their faces", showing how much that battle meant to him.

I think I found an ideal "dessert" for us aesthetics lovers for the first day of the new year. Javier Vallhonrat and his most exquisite works in this short but, I hope, impressive selection.

I don’t know about you, but I am - from now on - in desperate need of these fragile, delicate and so magical lamps…or shall we rather calm them sculptures?

The obsession for Lover’s Eyes flourished for only a short time, but this is a story made for romantics.