Très Parisien, 1925, No. 10, Pl. 7: Créations Cyber (...)- MA BICHE 1925

This fashion plate, Très Parisien, 1925, by G-P. Joumard, probably done with watercolor or gouache, gives you that real sense of process. You can feel the hand, see the layering and how the colours interact. I love the way the artist uses vertical lines to suggest form and volume, but flattens the image at the same time. It's not quite a cartoon, but it's got that spirit. Look at the coral dress on the left and how its stripes follow the shape of the garment. You can see the thought process, the way the artist figured out how to render a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional surface. The whole thing reminds me a little of the work of someone like Alex Katz, who’s interested in line and shape, too. But Joumard here captures a very particular moment in time, a very particular kind of elegance. I like to think of art as an ongoing conversation, this piece feels like a real invitation to join in.