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This Spring, works of art made their way down the runway in New York for Fashion Week, inspiring emerging trends in the design world. We, here at Map Acte 3, have complied our favorite looks and linked them to some of our favorite works of art. By doing so, we have watched the work of everyone from Carolina Herrera to Victor Vasarely strut down the runway.

Artist-designer collaborations have become stronger, with fashion designers hiring artists to design their runways and collaborating with them in order to create unique, artistic collections, season by season. The relationship between fashion and art has never been stronger, as evidenced by the Spring Fashion Weeks of 2015. We have come to see fashion an art as mirrors for each other. Explore some of the most memorable art reflections from Spring 2015 New York Fashion Week.

Carolina Herrera – Susanne Stahli

Betsy Johnson – Didier Monti-Xhoffer

Mara  Hoffman – Nicolas le Beaun Benic

Sipuma – Georgia O’Keeffe

Tory Burch – Mark Rothko

Despite our clear vision for the year, 2015 is looking abstract for Map Acte 3. This year we are highlighting the new artwork of two female abstract artists: Alison Black and Chantal Talbot. What these artists have in common is their talent for abstraction and their incredible ability of capturing movement, through their unique brushwork and focus on texture. While their styles and concepts differ immensely, Black’s and Talbot’s talents are evident in their works of art.

Some of you may be familiar with the work of Alison Black from our website. Although she has previously focused on creating works, featuring portraits of familiar faces from popular culture, our latest collection of Black’s work features vibrant and active brush strokes that come together to create warm and lively pieces of art. Black creates expressive scenes through her use of energetic hues and evocative applications of color. These abstract works generate emotion in ways unlike her portraits, but use the same powerful colors to do so.

Talbot, on the other hand, uses subdued and monochromatic palettes in order to express movement and life in her active seascapes. Her artwork represents a conflict – as cool, peaceful hues take on the form of an active, tormented ocean. These dark scenes communicate the force of the sea. Talbot’s work is emotional – full of passion and action.

These expressive works of art have been added to the Map Acte 3 collection for the year 2015, bringing some life and action into the new year.

http://mapacte3.com/index.php/newartwork.html

Inspired by trends in fashion and home furnishing, 2014 is Map Acte 3’s most daring year yet. The new year brought with it our most graphic images to date. This art work is so bold, so brilliant, you won’t be able to take your eyes off it.

Paying homage to artists, like Henri Boissiere, Ernesto Riga, and Allan Stevens, these graphic art works incorporate in vogue style trends, like bold black and whites, and edgy geometrics.

An energetic, expressive, graphic piece could complement any interior. Whether the space is commercial, corporate, or residential, displaying a graphic piece could enhance the aesthetic of any room. Graphic art work can serve as a conversational piece in a minimalist space, or could reinforce the style of a bold interior.

No matter where the graphic work of art goes, it’s sure to grab the attention of anyone in the room. With patterns and colors so eye-catching, a graphic art piece draws people in, screaming “Made you look!”. With art work that bold, how could you not?

Here at Map Acte 3 we understand that, in interior design, one size does not always fit all. Therefore, we have made it a point to match the versatility of our line with the versatility of our publishing options. As a result, the size, substrate, and finish of most art works can be customized to meet your design needs. As long as the "Customize" button appears on the product item page, you can custom design the art work for your design space.

Oversized art work can be custom printed, in sizes up to 48 x 96" on Plexiglas, to fill a larger wall space. Art work can also be customized to fit any wall space, as the composition of an art work can be altered from landscape to square to portrait.

To add interest to an art work, it can be broken up into multiple segments to be hung together.

If you find an art work you love, but need the colors to match those chosen for accents in the room, we can match the color in the art work to any Pantone color.

Watch this video to see how you can custom design your artwork!

Our new website, www.mapacte3.com was created with our customers in mind. With a clientele composed of interior designers, art consultants, and art enthusiasts, we aim to facilitate the design process for each customer, no matter what their design needs. For this reason, one of the great new tools on the website is a Project PDF creator. This quick and easy-to-use feature is helpful for presentations, as it includes all of the information about each artwork you intend to use for a particular project in a single document.

Whether you're tech-savvy, or still getting used to navigating the web, this video will be a great assistant, teaching you how to use this Project PDF tool to facilitate the design process. In 3 minutes, you will learn how to create a Project PDF, ready for sharing with your clients, or design consultants.

If, however, you wish to save images of the art work from our website onto your computer for a project, that is still an easy process as well. To do so, follow these 3 steps:

To strip something of its embellishments is to beautify it.

Mies Van Der Rohe would agree. In fact, he might respond with “Yes, after all, ‘Less is More’”. This architect, and many other Minimalist designers believe this to be true.

These Minimalists believed in stripping everything down to the most simple of elements. Although simplicity is often considered to be cold and personality-less, the opposite is true. Minimalist style makes a statement! Stark whites and clean lines are striking. Sparing pops of bright color and accents of geometrical patterns make this style bold.

Designer Amy Lau said that “restraint calms the eye and gives everything a sense of purpose.” This is especially true for this Minimalist style. The addition of a piece to a room is a weighty decision, as each lamp, each table, each work of art must make a statement, without clashing or being too overbearing. Because of this, artwork chosen for these Minimalist settings should be of a similar, sleek style. Artists, like Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Kenith Noland, Barnett Newman, Ernesto Riga, Davide Polla, and Nicolas Le Beuan Benic, have mastered this stark style, capturing the clean lines and clutter-free elements of Minimalism.

At MAP ACTE 3, we do believe in the beauty of this simplicity, and believe that in design, less can be more. Because of this, we have dedicated a portion of our line to this Minimalist art movement. Our fine art prints collection includes the work of the Minimalist artists mentioned above, and many more. Their clean, bold art works are available on our website as beautiful museum quality open edition silkscreens, art prints and limited edition prints on Plexiglas. With one, bold Minimalist piece you could make a simple, yet strong statement in any sleek commercial or residential interior space.