Inspiration Aspiration

We are all sponges absorbing music, art, culture, advertising, blogs, life - everything going on around us. Inspiration found in the minutest or grandest of things. 

I finally made it to the excellent Van Dongen exhibit today in Montreal, and I wondered if Dries Van Noten had been inspired by Van Dongen's raucous use of colour? He said that his colour was used to depict the intensity of the lives of the women that he painted. (Many of them prostitutes.) It left me wondering, in the shadow of the black-on-black shows this Fall 09... what was Dries excuse? 

Van Dongen - A Fauve in the City, Dries Van Noten