Word: florals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vuitton's familiar trademark of crossed golden initials intermingled in a floral pattern dates back to 1896. Georges Vuitton, son of the firm's founder, created the design to make the bags difficult for counterfeiters to copy. Over the years, the distinctive canvas fabric became a favorite of the rich and renowned, including Charles Lindbergh, Rose Kennedy and Lauren Bacall. Marlene Dietrich once filled an entire limousine with 23 Vuitton cases...
...Miss Atlanta, circa 1930. She is perched on the back seat of a Buick convertible, proceeding in a motorcade beneath the faces of a crowd clustered along the sidewalk, on balconies and in windows. You see the crowd as one mass, and the girl in the center as a floral brightness--her right arm lifted in a practiced wave, the sun highlighting her shoulder, her smiling, tulip-like face angled toward the camera. Then your eye locates the profile of the man driving the car, and the slanting shadow that bisects his face seems to infiltrate the meaning and scope...
...like a blowup of a tribal bracelet, but with more sculptural presence. On the other, one of the best pieces in the show is Alvin Loving's wall hanging of sewed, dyed canvas, Shades of '73: Composition for 1980, whose variegated strips are like a moody, floral version of a constructivist motif and seem to make no perceptible reference to Africa...