The Art Deco Women of Felix Mas

By: Dominik Hussl

CC: Felix Mas – The Golden Mirror (2008) by Cea.

Owning one of the many Felix Mas Paintings is not only a privilege, but an investment. These precious works have become more and more popular as the art world has discovered the amazing work he has done.

Felix Mas is not new to the art world, but many more people are getting the opportunity to experience his work as it makes tours around the country, overseas and also online. Many people describe his work as alluring and elegant. One look at any of his completed pieces and one is instantly overtaken by its beauty.

Felix Mas Paintings are primarily done in oil on canvas or serigraph on canvas. His coloring is beyond unique and truly one of a kind. He actually creates many of his own colors by using natural pigments.

This adds to the color range and uniqueness that can only be found in many of his pieces. It also creates a certain depth that is rarely seen.

Take a single look at one of his pieces and one cannot help but notice the depth of color and intricacy in a flower. Or the vast color range and dimension in a single peacock feather.

Many of the Kimonos that he has carefully brush stroked are done with such precise detail it amazes the mind. Gazing at the delicacy of the butterfly wings expresses the tenderness of the artist.

When someone looks at the variety of Felix Mas Paintings, they soon realize that they all seem to center around the female form, showcasing its femininity and grace. Women are brushed onto canvas to look like the goddesses they are, and some with a very alluring appeal.

Many are painted in their natural state only to be enhanced by his use of colors. Some observers note that the women seem to be looking off into the distance, leaving the viewer to use their own imagination as to what the woman may be thinking or gazing upon.

The artist was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1935, and that is where he currently resides and gets much of his inspiration.

He was a student of art from the beginning and is noted for doing some amazing work for numerous romantic comic series. In the early 1960’s, he worked as an illustrator in Scandinavia.

In the late 1960’s, he turned his attention back to the comic world and stayed in that work until the mid 1970’s. At that point, he decided to go back to what he was realizing was his true passion, painting.

Felix Mas received much of his training at the Escuela Superior de San Jorge and Artes y Oficios. He then traveled throughout a vast portion of Europe and in to the United States, furthering his education of the arts.

The inspiration behind Felix Mas Paintings comes from women around the world and from different periods of time. From parts of Asia, into Egypt and India, their beauty is enhanced by the artisans brush strokes and color choices.

He also has painted visions of women from ancient times in Rome and Greece. Each woman is dressed elegantly in either period or native clothing. Many have hair pieces that only accentuate the beauty of their features and dress.

When someone looks at any number of Felix Mas Paintings, they can get lost in the interpretation. This is purposely done by the artist, so that each piece can represent something completely different for each person that views it.

His work invokes emotion and fascination. Even someone that may not be enthusiastic about this type of art will succumb to each beauty that has been carefully stroked onto the canvas.

This is another reason that his work has become so popular. Not many artists can truly capture the soul of a woman on canvas like Felix Mas has been able to do. He truly celebrates all that makes a woman, a woman.

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Every woman should own at least one classic cocktail dress. The term “cocktail dress” technically casts a broad umbrella over any kind of dress that can be worn to a formal event. These days, the phrase usually calls to mind a short black dress that flatters the figure.

True cocktail dresses can be any length, color or style as long as they match the formality of the suits that the men in attendance will be wearing. If the men will be wearing casual or business suits, the women may wear day dresses in bright colors and loose cuts. Nighttime events generally call for darker colors and feminine silhouettes.
 
Historically, cocktail dresses have always adjusted as trends shifted. The first party dresses that were intended exclusively for evening wear debuted during Prohibition. These early cocktail dresses are now easily identifiable as flapper gowns. Since drinking alcohol was illegal, people had to create other pretenses for hosting large gatherings. They decided to focus on formality to make their parties different from casual daytime get-togethers. People started dressing up to compensate for the way the lack of alcohol negatively affected the atmospheres of their parties.
 

Christian Dior was the first designer to hone in on darkly romantic dresses for nighttime affairs; he referred to his dresses in this mold as cocktail dresses. To this day, the clothing from his namesake design house is dark and dramatic. The man took socializing very seriously. His cocktail dresses from the early 1950s added sharp angles to typical housewife dresses. The puffed skirts and trim waists were still present, but they were exaggerated for maximum effect.

The mod era of the 1960s saw young women wearing cocktail-type dresses as casual day wear. The fashionable silhouette during this time period was fairly shapeless, so designers had to find ways to make cocktail dresses fancier without pulling them out of the landscape of recognizable fashion. This was accomplished by making them out of high-quality fabrics and adding details like buttons and structured collars. They were made out of overtly feminine colors like bright pink and pastel blue.

Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black dress in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” sparked a major shift in formal wear trends. By the mid-1970s, cocktail dresses were almost exclusively long, black and sleek. The cocktail dress as it is thought of today began to define itself. Edgy designs featured bare shoulders and deep V-cut backs. The simpler the designs were, the more shocking they were. After the softly feminine designs from the previous decades, it was shocking to see women wearing harsher styles. These dresses required confident attitudes and admirable figures.

This was when supermodels were just beginning to rise to prominence. Fashion became a more exclusive realm. These long dark gowns remain the archetypal cocktail dresses, although the standards have loosened somewhat in recent years. The grunge period saw the introduction of casual dresses that were not necessarily feminine. More recently, Zooey Deschanel has inspired young women to integrate floral cocktail dresses into their daily wardrobes.
 
Cocktail dresses signify fun social events, so it is only natural that fun-loving women would want to dress as if they are always going to parties. Today’s generation of young women have phased stuffy, overly formal dinner parties out of their lives in favor of lighthearted drinking and dancing in pretty dresses.

About the Author:  Stephanie Anderson handles brand management for the popular retro clothing brand, Stop Staring! She enjoys Broadway musicals, freelance writing, and trying to convince all of her co-workers to cheer on USC football.