At the beach

30's fashion

40's swimwear

"En 1946, l'atoll de Bikini, dans le Pacifique, fait la une des journeaux avec le premier essai nucléaire américain, tandis qu'un fabricant français de maillots de bains, Louis Réart, lance un modèle audacieux et aussi abrégé que l'atoll est étroit. Le nom du maillot est trouvé et la marque est déposée....Les maillots de Monsieur Réart sont chers : en 1947, le prix d'un bikini équivaut au tiers du salaire d'une dactylo débutante" 

Les maillots de bain - Olivier Saillard - Editions du Chêne - 1998.

July 5, 1946: Louis Reard introduced the "bikini" at a popular Paris swimming pool. (A similar swimsuit, called the "atome," was introduced around the same time, by fashion designer Jacques Heim.)

50's swimsuit

Elle - June 1958

Maurice Handler
(Tippi Hedren as a model on the right)

"Après la disparition du corset de bain dans les années 20 et 30, voici donc le grand retour du maillot-gaine. Dès cette époque, une pièce et deux-pièces coexistent au soleil.   Les maillots de bain - Olivier Saillard - Editions du Chêne - 1998. 

Op art swimsuits
Photo F.C. GUNDLACH

An interesting blog with numerous swimsuits : http://vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/swim-wear-history/ 

Suns

Richard Anuszkiewicz, Untitled, 1961

Bridget Riley - Blaze - 1964

"De thermis Andreae Baccii Elpidiani, civis Romani ...." by Andrea Bacci - 1622

The sun : graphic representation in history of arts and cultures

Windows

Benjamin Shiff
Windows - Jerusalem

July 1990

March 4, 2012

Chagall
Window in the country - 1915

For centuries, the window has been found among the most favored artistic motifs. The picture of a "room with a view" in which the window marks the threshold between exterior and interior has long fostered reflections on the medium of painting itself. The observation that a painting resembles a view through an open window dates all the way back to 1435, when it entered a treatise on painting written by the Renaissance scholar Leon Battista Alberti. He coined a metaphor which has for centuries shaped our understanding of the picture which is organized according to the rules of central perspective and which – like a window – reveals to us a delimited segment of the world.  http://www.artdaily.org

August 1996

Joseph Sudek
1930

Gipsy

100 Idées Déco
Dec-january 2009

August von Pettenkofen
1855 - Gipsy children

Fripounet
October 1978

Robert Doisneau
Les gitans de Montreuil - 1950

Liberté
Tony Gatlif

Summer feeling

Edward Georgi - 1896-1964

Digital carpet

Marie-Claire - juin 2008

Kenzo - 1985

From the book "The sun in art"