Floral Forms by Emil James Bisttram | Style Imitating Art

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About Style Imitating Art

Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey, Terri of Meadow Tree Style, and Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as presenter, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the presenter by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the presenter will share all of the submissions on her blog.

You don’t have to be a blogger to join either! In fact, you don’t even have to join but you can still use the art to inspire an outfit just for the sake of trying something different. If you want to share your inspired outfit, we invite you do so on Instagram or any other social media platform that you prefer. Just be sure to tag Salazar, Terri, and Shelbee or use #TeamLOTSStyle and #StyleImitatingArt so the hosts know you have joined. Go have some fun in your closets and join the SIA challenge next week!

This Week’s Presenter

Terri chose this round’s artwork, a 1935 watercolor painting over graphite tracing on paper, by Hungarian-born American artist Emil James Bisttram. Bisttram was born in Hungary, near the Romanian border in 1895. In 1906 at 11 years old, he Immigrated with his family to New York and eventually moved to Taos, New Mexico, where he opened a gallery, The Heptagon, in 1932. Bisttram died in Taos in 1976. 

The Artwork

Floral Forms by Emil Bisttram

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which houses this work offers the following fascinatingly boring description of the painting…

“At top on mottled blue ground, large red circular form, left, with dotted black center; top right, yellow form with orange axes and blue diagonals, several red and orange petaled circles below, bottom one with dark red center; center left, light green form crossed by square blue meander extending to center of yellow circle, three dark green lines pendant; mottled blue corner, lower right; another red circle, crossed by bottom margin, lower left, beneath brownish-black square.”

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The painting is much more appealing to the eye than that awful description depicts, don’t you think?

I am very drawn to the vibrant shades of red, orange, and yellow. And of course, the hints of turquoise and teal make me very happy. Also florals never not make me smile. As much as I adore all the greens, blues, and teals, lately I have found myself wanting all the reds, oranges, and yellows. These hues have never before been favored by me, but I do think menopause has helped make them more wearable colors for me and now I want them all! As it turns out, I have a few perfect things for this challenge and I already took the photographs. I can’t wait to share them with you next week!

If you want to join us with an outfit inspired by this artwork and be featured in Terri’s review post on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, be sure to submit your photos to her at meadowtreestyle@gmail.com by 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. 

Happy Styling! 

Keeping it on the edge, 

Shelbee

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