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Tracy Reese Women's Beaded Halter Top in Graphic Horizon (2)

This silk blouse from Tracy Reese features a mesh halter t-strap panel with elaborate beading, pleated chest detailing, darting down the bodice for a flattering fit and exposed back zipper closure.
Material: 100% Silk
Professional Dry Clean Only
Runs True to Size- Refer to Measurements Below
Manufacturer Style #7VK6N2
Designer Bio:
With an innate desire to create beautiful things, Detroit native Tracy Reese headed for Manhattan in 1982 to attend Parson's School of Design. In 1998 Tracy launched her eponymous collection to rave reviews. Perfect for the modern woman, Reese's line features ultra feminine pieces layered with intelligent nostalgia, charm and luxury. Bright colors, unique prints and intricate patterns define Tracy Reese.

James Rosenquist, considered one of the leaders of the pop art movement of the 1960s, created White Bread, 1964, during a pivotal period in the early years of his long career.

After studying art with Cameron Booth at the University of Minnesota, Rosenquist moved to New York City in 1955 on a scholarship from the Art Students League. His breakthrough came in 1960, when he quit his signpainting job and found a loft in Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, joining a group of young mavericks that included Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin, and Jack Youngerman. Here Rosenquist gave up his previous abstract expressionist efforts and let his commercial experience invade his art. The result was a series of monumental paintings based on jagged collages of magazine images and views out his window.

White Bread is one of Rosenquist's best-known works from this period, but it is not typical. The scale is relatively modest compared to other works he created at the time, and the composition is not interrupted by the sharp divisions and overlaid images that usually emerged from his collage process. Instead, the divisions and overlaps are elegantly found in the subject itself—four slices of store-bought white bread, the topmost of which is receiving a coat of the world's yellowest butter (or, more likely, margarine), courtesy of a very ordinary stainless steel knife.

While commonly associated with pop art, Rosenquist never fit comfortably into the pop category, as this painting demonstrates. On the one hand, he generally eschewed brand names and logos, preferring more generalized commercial images. On the other, he dared to approach commercial illustration techniques even more closely than his pop cohorts, as can be seen in his efficient but careful rendering of the grooves in the knife and the gloss on the butter. At the same time, this work can be considered largely as an abstraction: the canvas is divided into simple shapes, and the use of the same yellow for both the spread and the background flattens the space, calling attention to the patterns formed by the bread crusts. In this regard, White Bread is similar to the radical simplicity, purity of shape, and sharp contours found in Ellsworth Kelly's color field paintings. Indeed, some commentators have detected Kelly's initials in the crusts. The possible influence of Roy Lichtenstein can also be seen in this work. In 1963, Lichtenstein painted Mustard on White, which shows a woman's hand delivering a bright yellow coating of mustard to a slice of white bread with a knife.

In sum, White Bread is a painting about culture and consumption made at a high point of American consumerism, but it is also a painting about painting, about the application of color to a support and its stunning visual results.

Comfort Food Morning!

I don't question it if my body is seriously craving comfort food, there's usually a reason why. I have a job interview Monday. Maybe I needed a little of the type of calming herbal tea just isn't enough for! :)

This morning was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on 2 slices of plain white bread with a tablespoon of peanut butter and a tablespoon of peach preserves with watermelon on the side and a cup of coffee with 1% milk and Splenda. Total calories - 351

OMG omg! Is that nooooo, could it be? No it couldn't. Your favorite actor of all time is standing a few feet in front of you, asking you where you bought the Volcom Women's Frochickie 2 1/2-Inch Short. He's searching for a gift for his girlfriend (which in celebrity time means flavor of the week). In your head you explain how comfy this cotton chino short is, but in reality you just stand there speechless.

Product Features
Material: 98% cotton, 2% elastane
Fit: regular
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Inseam: 2.5 in
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Waist: blet loops
Pockets: 2 front, 2 back
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Recommended Use: streetwear
Manufacturer Warranty: 30 days