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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Salvador Dali

Discovered these lovely images on Brain Pickings this morning. Dali’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” (published in 1865) is one of the rarest and most sought-after Dali suites. With the original gouaches published by Maecenas Press-Random House, New York in 1969, the suite now contains 12 heliogravures - one for each chapter of the book - and comes with 1 original signed etching in 4 colors as the frontpiece. My favorites are below, you can see the entire (now digitized) collection on the William Bennett Gallery.

(Here's Alice)

(Down the Rabbit Hole)

(Mad Tea Party)

Murakami Takes Versailles

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Japanese pop artist, Takashi Marakami, has twenty-two manga-inspired sculptures spread out over the Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette's palace rooms and grounds. First Jeff Koons then Xavier Veilhan, now Murakami. I would love, love, love to see this exhibit.

Art :: Charmaine Olivia

"Charmaine Olivia has been hard at work for the upcoming group show at Gallery Hijinks, here in SF. Charmaine shares with us some process pics of her latest piece Nautica. It's a bit larger than what she normally works with at 24" x 30" and it's combo of oil, watercolor pencil & ink on wood."

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I'm looking forward to this show which includes six other artists of notable talent. This tattoo piece is kind of amazing, wonder if it'll be on sale? See Charmaine's site for the rest of her work. I'm drawn to her intricate and soft styling. And I especially like that she deals mostly with the feminine face and female form.