drawing, print, ink
portrait
art-deco
drawing
blue ink drawing
ink
watercolour illustration
cartoon carciture
Dimensions height 267 mm, width 177 mm
This fashion plate, titled "Très Parisien. La Mode, Le Chic, L’Elégance," probably made with ink and stencils or pochoir, is a real mood! I imagine an anonymous artist, maybe a woman, making these in 1927, with a real love for the fashion industry. The black outlines are precise, with flat washes of color applied with incredible care. I imagine the artist holding their breath to get it just right. The dresses are so detailed! You can almost feel the texture of the fabric and the weight of the beads. I feel the artist's desire to capture a sense of style. The layering of shapes, the repetition of line, the play of light and dark… I imagine the artist was also inspired by textile design. There is a conversation across time and media, which, for me, captures the essence of creativity itself.
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Très Parisien promoted itself as chic and elegant. Between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Chéruit, Premet, Philip et Gaston, and Lanvin. The young, svelte models are all ultra-modern, shown talking on the phone, smoking and playing tennis. The illustrations also show that over the course of the 1920s, skirt lengths had risen to just below the knee, before dropping back down to calf length in the 1930s. The small plates were printed on transparent paper using a stencilling technique known as en pochoir and then hand coloured; many of them are unsigned. The signature ‘Joujou’ belonged to Germaine Paule Joumard, who was the director of Très Parisien, as well as one of the magazine’s illustrators.
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