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more about #muses more comments → LatestBy: What a beauty! I hope when I'm at 98 I can call my life "too wonderful". more » MizJenkins: I feel like she could have been the inspiration for Midge, Don Draper's girl Friday in Season 1 of Mad Men (although no doubt less bohemian if she was... more » bowleserised: Hell, I wouldn't pass up a chance to pose for Freud. And if I were a painter myself, doubly so. I also wouldn't assume that I was therefore doomed to ... more » deltabella: Maybe it's just me, but I don't have a problem with this. Freud has painted a number of different subjects of different ages and sexes, so it's not as... more » lookethatmyface: I'm sure Lily Allen is disheartened by this news. Not snarking (okay kind of), but she said she had a thing for him, right? more » Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane: There's only one person I would like to be muse for- Matt Bellamy, from Muse. Oh my. more » roslyn taber: i feel like, in fashion, when women are a designer's "muse", it's because the designer is inspired by the woman's already existing style, and the desi... more » garconne est grise: Will muse for booze. more » poires et poireaux: This has made me mad since the days of art school. All the art boys had their pretty muse girlfriends who oggled at their talent, and the art girls we... more » midwesternmom: My cat is my muse. My weaving has to support his weight while he uses the loom as a hammock, and the colors must blend with dark tabby. more » restless: PS-Lucian Freud is a great painter. Inspiration is something that's hard to explain, even harder to come by, and who cares anyway? These are consentin... more » Stabby McStabberson: ...the shop girls whom the pre-Raphaelites picked up, immortalized, and discarded. not just discarded. one, lizzie siddal, wife and muse of dante gabr... more » LaComtesse: Ooh! My Jeze-namesake was a muse! more » TheUptightMidwesterner: You mean when that artist named GreasySteve talked me into posing naked in the gas station bathroom that wasn't being a "muse"? I had it all wrong.. more » opalmarie: I did my art history thesis on Lucian Freud! I think he is the artist I'd least like to be a muse for. His subjects do NOT look pretty. more » -
#meetingoftheminds
R.I.P. Ruth Ford
Ruth Ford, an actress who became famous for the salons she held in her Dakota apartment, has died at 98. "My life has been too exciting, too wonderful, to let anything else, and that includes acting, to come first." [NYT] -
#artssake
Muse Asylum: The Dubious Honor Of Inspiring Genius
86-year-old Lucian Freud has a new, 25-year-old muse. Obviously. More » -
#buddyholly
Peggy Sue Got Married
Buddy Holly, who died 50 years ago today, wrote 1957's classic "Peggy Sue" about his drummer's girlfriend. Now 68, Peggy Sue Gerron calls it "a privilege, always. I never get tired of it." [BBC] -
#claudemonet
Last Impressions
When Claude Monet's beloved wife and muse Camille died at 32, the artist responded the only way he knew how: a vivid, evocative painting that would hang over his own deathbed 47 years later. [Obit] -
#dinavierny
Muse Asylum
Dina Vierny began posing for the sculptor Aristide Maillol as a teenager in order to earn pocket money. -
#laborsoflove
Husband Makes Over Home In Tribute To Wife, God
A surgeon has dedicated his life — and house — to "massive tableaus depicting his love for his wife, each showing the couple set in a different era: ancient Greece, for example, or czarist Russia."
