SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN A GREEN BUGATTI

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

I've only seen a few of the more famous pieces by Tamara de Lempicka, but for some reason, never this one. Was browsing Art.com and this Art Deco image really struck me. The Roaring (19) Twenties look pretty glamorous, at least in this self-portrait that Tamara de Lempicka did in 1929.

Wouldn't it be fun to have this hanging, as a companion piece, with this aristocratic gent that she also did, "Portrait du Marquis d'Afflito" --

What a moody pair!

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

i really enjoy art deco art, furniture, and jewelry, but i am not a fan of these pieces. they almost have a look to them like their eyes are following me. i can only imagine what they would be like hanging on a wall. lol

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just bee · ‎03-10-2010

@Oznell

Reminds me of one of the prints I'd had for several years that wasn't saved after the house fire.

Image result for art deco print "pearl"

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Porcelain · ‎02-19-2014

Nah. Cold, dead, fish eyes. Not my style.

I like moody and mysterious sometimes, but not like that.

BTW, that artist was LGBTQ, had countless lovers of all types, and was Jewsh by ancestry. So eventually even she had to flee for her life from the fascists, even though the fascist elites loved her work and enjoyed her aesthetic.

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mspatmac · ‎06-10-2015

Looks like they had words, she leaves and he is despondent. I like them and I am usually not an art deco fan but art can transcend styles as these do for me.

Janey2 · ‎06-07-2010

Love Art Deco in pretty much everything

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

Not a big art deco fan but I love the venetian mirrors and just a pop here and there. I have Venetian mirrors in my bathroom over the lava bowls. It's just enough to make me happy and to transition a little from my very traditional bedroom to the more spa-like bathroom without having the ultramodern spa mirrors.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

Beautiful pictures, just the style of the time.

Anonymous032819 · ‎03-29-2019

@Oznell

I know that you love to romanticize the past and see it through rose colored glasses, but the "roaring 20's" wasn't a big glamorous party for everyone.

If you are going to live in the past, then look at it honestly.

Life was awful if you were poor, or black, or LGBTQ, or a woman.

A woman had little recourse if her husband beat her.

It wasn't safe to be openly gay.

There was rampant racism.

If you are going to mention the good, then it is only right and fair to also acknowledge the bad too, because it too existed.

And to ignore that reality for a lot of people, is to be in denial.

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