"The Line of Fashion" Exhibition
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
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A knowing line, a whoosh of color can define a look, sometimes even an era. The artists in this long overdue exhibition of fashion drawings -- Antonio, Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Eric among them -- all possess the magic that drives the genre as it waits to be embraced by the world's great museums.
The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation presents The Line of Fashion, an exhibition of more than 50 years of fashion illustration curated by Robert W. Richards, whose own artwork is a familiar presence on the fashion scene. The exhibition includes stunning original works by such luminaries as Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Antonio, Christian Berard, George Stavrinos, Vertes, Mel Odom and many others.
The ascendance of photography since the mid 1960s as the preferred medium for depicting fashion in newspapers and magazines makes the hand-drawn and colored works that appear in The Line of Fashion all the more rare and intriguing.
Says curator Robert W. Richards about the power of this work: “The line can capture the very spirit of the time, the look, the feel, even the sound of it. The final effect is one that no camera can duplicate.”
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Schedule
from September 23, 2008 to November 01, 2008
Artist(s)
Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Antonio, Christian Berard, George Stavrinos, Vertes, Mel Odom et al.