Is Valentine’s Day necessarily kitschy and tasteless? Often the romanticism of the occasion turns into a rather ridiculous commercial opportunism.
A few hilarious slips make us cry with laughter! In 2014, Twitter awarded the prize for the worst pun to the company Bull, which entitled its press release: “A calculation plan for tonight…”.
As for Ouest France, we remember its very second-degree article: that single people reassure themselves, the French Federation of Cardiology thinks about them and reminds them that their situation is dangerous for their health. Increased risk of mortality, lowered immune defences, risk of cardiovascular disease due to a lack of sexual intercourse. Everything you need to cheer them up.
Enough jokes, we need entertainment in February. Christmas is already far away, the kings’ pancakes are largely digested, winter is dragging on and we don’t see the end of the health crisis!
Whether you’ve just met each other or whether you’ve been married, pacsed, accompanied for 1, 5 or 20 years, it’s essential to regularly tell people you love that you love them.
We all constantly need attractive perspectives, delicate attentions, signs of love and affection, so let’s be kitsch, let’s be overly romantic, let’s be thoughtful more than reasonable and let’s cover our loved ones with nice gifts that will remind them how much we care about them.
Convinced that a successful Valentine’s Day is first and foremost a Valentine’s Day that suits you, the Happy Funky Family offers you a selection of visuals that are just waiting for your photos to be transformed into a unique work of art!
Our Happy Funky Artists (draftsman, painter, embroiderer, digital illustrator, paper or digital collage specialists, ceramist) look forward to being inspired by you and your loved one to create a unique and personalized Portrait of your couple.
Love, always love… inexhaustible source of inspiration,
Part One!
André Malraux used to say:
“Like Love, Art is not pleasure but Passion”
It is therefore not surprising that a great many masterpieces celebrate love, an absolutely inexhaustible source of inspiration. It would obviously be pretentious to retrace the history of art through the prism of Love, but some of the works below have particularly touched us!
Marina Abramovic
She performs a silent performance sitting in front of visitors who are watching her. She keeps her self-control until a well-known face appears in front of her: a youthful love. The scene is overwhelming because it is universal. We would like our lover to do this every day and that, conversely, we are still able to create such an emotion!
Pierre and Gilles
Pierre and Gilles are known for the photos retouched with paint that they make together since their meeting developing an image qualified as “kitsch and flashy”. Their love nourishes their art which regularly celebrates the art of loving. One of their exhibitions was entitled: Le grand Amour!
Find on thislink a very touching interview of the two artists about their relationship to life, to love!
Juan Avalos, 1955
The Lovers of Teruel are two legendary characters, Diego de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura, who died in 1217. Diego and Isabel loved each other, but the girl’s father preferred a young man from a better family named Azagra. Diego leaves for war to amass honor and fortune, and returns after five years, a period of time that has been granted to him. Upon his return, he goes to his lover who has just married Azagra, asks her for a kiss that she refuses and dies of grief. Isabel enters the church during the funeral, gives a last kiss to Diego’s corpse and expires in that supreme embrace.
The mummified bodies of the two lovers were exhumed in 1555. Their tomb was located in the cloister of the church of San Pedro in Teruel, before the construction of a mausoleum by the sculptor Juan de Ávalos in 1955.
Robert Doisneau, 1950
The most famous French lovers are undoubtedly those of the town hall. This photograph taken in 1950 by Robert Doisneau has become legendary. It is the image of romanticism in Paris par excellence.
The image was actually commissioned by the American magazine Life. Behind this cliché that has become cult, there is however a staging. Indeed, the French photographer did not want to spontaneously capture people in the street when he was working on commission for legal reasons.
So the two lovers were drama students in Simon’s class, kissing on a café terrace. Doisneau saw them and asked them to recreate the kiss in the middle of the crowd.
Brancusi, 1940
It’s a strange wooden crate. For the past few months, it has been completely covering the stele of a tomb in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. Tourists, who wander between the alleys where Baudelaire, Maupassant or Gainsbourg are buried, often pass in front of it without even taking a look at it. And yet, if they only knew… These light-coloured wooden planks hide one of the most expensive sculptures in the world: The Kiss, by Constantin Brancusi, a limestone block representing a couple in a fusional embrace. A marvel of purity that adorns the tomb of a certain Tatiania Rachewskaya, a young Russian woman who mysteriously committed suicide in Paris in 1910. Eros and Thanatos reunited.
Listen to Jérôme Dupuis tell the story of Tatiana Rachewskaya, her suicide, Brancusi’s beloved sculpture, the heirs and the art dealer.
Of course, we do not all have the means to offer to our beloved as a token of our Love a mausoleum, a Brancusi statue or a legendary photo.
On the other hand, the Happy Funky Familygives you the opportunity to collaborate closely with a variety of artists in terms of style and technique to find the best way to remind the one you love that you love him or her!
For lovers of sculpture, we particularly advise you to take a look at the very talented Linda from France and as for photo lovers, our new artist Olivier from USA transforms your couple’s photos into vintage artwork!
Does Banksy have a new surprise in store for Valentine’s Day 2021?
Nothing is less certain because he’s never where you expect him to be. In Bristol, the English city where street art artist Banksy is from, a work of art appeared on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, February 13, 2020. Claimed the following Friday, February 14th, it is seen by the inhabitants as a proof of love for their city, on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. A wink from the artist to the Lovers of the world.
Classic Banksy. A painting by the British street artist partially self-destructed on Friday, October 5, 2018, in front of a stunned audience just after having been sold at auction for 1.2 million euros at Sotheby’s in London. Before partially disappearing, the work celebrated the art of love with a little girl letting a pink heart-shaped balloon escape, one of the artist’s emblematic works. Reminder of the facts in pictures:
What do you have planned for Valentine’s Day? A surprise? A gift? Dinner?
We suggest a personalized portrait by the Happy Funky Family, I promise, the work will not be trapped!!!
Find the most beautiful works of BANKSY on his Instagram account.
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