BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN.

Debatable.

What is NOT is the straight up epic-ness of these paintings. In the midst of her hippie street style obsession Your Main Girl came across these Johanne Corno paintings at Opera Gallery. Your Main Girl loves the sketchy style, aggressive poses, and mostly the peace signs. Corno's style shows emotion and expression by use of thick brush strokes. 

The girls in these paintings may be 1D but YMG thinks you can learn a thing or two from them. 

Triptych on Gold • Mixed Media on Canvas • 60 x 72 and 48 x 72 and 48 x 72 inches

Blonde 003 • Mixed Media

Johanne Corno at her studio, painting what looks like YMG's main girl Ri

Blonde 008 • Mixed Media

She out.

CRAVING SUMMER - AN ART POST

YMG has had enough of the snow and the cold and the rain and the snow.  There are 130 days until summer, and if you ask YMG that is 131 too many! Yes. It should have been summer yesterday, but since it was blizzarding instead here is a bunch of awesome "summer" art to help fill the void. 

Hilo Chen - Oil on Canvas

Hilo Chen - Oil on Canvas

Hilo Chen - Oil on Canvas

Robert Neffson - Bryant Park - Oil on Linen

MINI POST: ART

THE ARTIST LEE PRICE: IN HONOR OF THE HOLIDAY

Asleep: Oil on Linen & Blueberry Pancakes II: Oil on Linen, 64" x 31" &  56” x 38”

Sleeping With Peaches: Oil on Linen, 56" x 81"  

Your Main Girl didn't see this artwork in person though it is on display in New York at the Wendt Gallery and the Gallery Henoch. Her bad, she was too busy eating and stuff. 

Speaking of eating and stuff; that is what Price has given to us via oil paint. She draws a woman, presumably herself, eating...and stuff. Well, excellent subject matter my friend, it really hits home for YMG. What is more heavenly than eating blueberry pancakes while you work on your hygiene. Don't answer that, Your Main Girl doesn't care. 

WHAT? AN ART POST.

Ron English: Crucial Fiction

YMG visited the Opera Gallery in SOHO to see Ron English's solo exhibit entitled, Crucial Fiction. She had to see this artist's work in person. Take a look at the most amazing, trippy, wtf art you-will-ever-see. 

Let's start with Exhibit A: In front of us is Ms. Marilyn Monroe, one of the biggest sex symbols of modern America. We also have Mickey Mouse, one of the biggest childhood symbols of modern America. Two things that obv belong to together right? WRONG. But it feels so right. 

Marilyn With Mickey Mouse, Screen Print

Now for exhibit B: English takes the iconic Rolling Stones tongue and makes it cooler. You didn't think that was possible? Neither did Your Main Girl. The Lips are two people having funky intimate relations and the background is made up of psychedelic skulls.Didn't see that at first glance, did you?!

Star Skull Lady Lips Oil, synthetic polymer paint and collage
 on canvas 80 x 60 inches 

Exhibit C: The good stuff. Your main girl doesn't know how English comes up with this sh*t but she is happy he does! What could be better than a suspiciously happy Barney riding a T-rex, with Homer Simpson looking aimlessly by his side, and  Ronald McDonald Chillin' in a UFO?... 

THE NUDIE: AN ART POST

"I'VE NEVER SEEN A PAINTING OF A NAKED WOMAN BEFORE"

"The Pale", 36" x 48", oil on canvas. 2012

Well not like this anyways. The artworks of painter Aaron Nagel, are on show at the exhibit titled Soverign, currently on display at the Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea. YMG thinks these paintings are pretty awesome for a number reasons; she will tell you them now. 

YMG doesn't want to state the obvious, but what is depicted here is an array of beautiful naked women. The female form has been drawn and painted and sculpted and collaged and drawn and filmed and drawn and painted throughout the history of fine art. Unlike the art you might have seen when your mom dragged you to The Metropolitan Museum of Art these are modern women. Being from this era Your Main Girl might be biased, but she thinks the female form has only been improving.

The Birth of Venus, 1486, Botticelli.

or

BOOBS, AN ACTRESS, AND A PORN STAR

PAINTED BY RICHARD PHILLIPS, Adriana III , 2012, Oil on canvas, 96 x 144 5/8 inches

Your Main Girl took Art History 101 in undergrad and it bored her to death. However, unlike the rest of you who took your required art course and vowed never to visit a museum again YMG knew that the art world had more to offer. You just had to know where to look. 

Let YMG introduce you to Mrs. Adrianna Lima (above). She, and a few other familiar faces (see below) are on display at The Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Painted by Richard Phillips, these works stand over 10 ft tall and 15 ft wide. 

You thought that raunchy poster in your college dorm room was badass? Think again.