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March of the painters (and the poets!)

01 Πέμπτη Μαρ. 2018

Posted by Wanderlust in Everyday life, Paintings, Poetry, poetry I like, Postcard, Uncategorized

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Emily Dickinson, March, Paintings, Poetry

March is the first month of spring and the month of my birthday!

Here are some famous paintings about March (from left to right):

 

1.Edvard Munch, Fields in March (1916), 2.Yiannis Tsarouchis, Martis (1972) 3. Nils Kreuger, Evening in March (1900), 4. Leandro Bassano, March (c.1595-1600), 5. Hans Thoma, March (c.1900), 6.Edward Burne – Jones, March Marigold (1870) 7.Philip Richard Morris, March Winds (no date)  8.The March Calendar from the French Gothic manuscript illumination The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry (1412-1416), 9. Nicolai Astrup, A morning of March (1920), 10.Theodor Kittelsen, March (1890), 11.Robert Henri,  the March Wind (1902), 12. Edward John Poynter, Ides of March (1883) 

 

 

edvard_munch_fields_march
Evening-in-March, Nils Kreuger
G.Tsarouchis, Martis
march-leandro-bassano
March, Hans Thoma
the-march-marigold, Edward Burne Jones, 1870
Robert Henry, the march wind
©Photo. R.M.N. / R.-G. OjŽda
©Photo. R.M.N. / R.-G. OjŽda
Nicolai Astrup A morning of march
March, Theodor Kittelsen, 1890
(c) Museums Sheffield; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
(c) Museums Sheffield; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
(c) Manchester City Galleries; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
(c) Manchester City Galleries; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

 

and a poem by Emily Dickinson:

Dear March – Come in!

How glad I am!
I hoped for you before.
Put down your hat –
You must have walked –
How out of Breath you are!

Dear March, how are you?
and the rest?
Did you leave Nature well? 
Oh March, come right upstairs with me,
I have so much to tell.

I got your letter, and the bird’s 
The Maples never knew 
that you were coming -I declare,
How Red their Faces grew! 
But, March, forgive me – 
And all those hills 
you left for me to hue; 
There was no purple suitable, 
You took it all with you.

Who knocks? That April!
Lock the Door!
I will not be pursued!
He stayed away a year, to call 
When I am occupied. 
But trifles look so trivial 
As soon as you have come,

That blame is just as dear as Praise 
And Praise as mere as Blame

Have a nice month!

More paintings about March: http://antikleidi.com/2016/03/01/march

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The lady in the mirror and the mirror paintings in art history

08 Πέμπτη Φεβ. 2018

Posted by Wanderlust in Litterature, Paintings, Poetry, poetry I like, Song

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«She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look’d down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack’d from side to side;
‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried
The Lady of Shalott.»

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott (1842)

Waterhouse, the lady of Shalott
Minje Su, The Lady of Shalott
Elizabeth_Siddal_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott-600x418
Hunt, William Holman; The Lady of Shalott; Manchester Art Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-lady-of-shalott-205251
Hunt, William Holman; The Lady of Shalott; Manchester Art Gallery; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-lady-of-shalott-205251

 

Whether it is from Lord Tennyson’s famed ballad, or from John William Waterhouse’s iconic painting that still adorns Tate Britain’s hall, everyone has heard the tale of ‘the Lady of Shalott’. The story itself originates in Mort Artu or “the death of King Arthur,” which forms part of the 13th-century Prose Lancelot. It tells the tragic death of a beautiful maiden, Elaine d’Astolat, who falls desperately in love with Lancelot, whose heart belongs only to Queen Guinevere.

The ancient tale was granted new life by the poet Lord Tennyson, who enriched it by giving Elaine a spindle, a magic mirror, and a mysterious curse that is never explained.

Passing from Tennyson to the Pre-Raphaelites, the story is reincarnated in various forms, painted or sketched by several members of the Brother- and Sisterhood. The theme was hugely popular; Waterhouse alone executed three paintings, drawing from different stanzas of the ballad: The Lady of Shalott (1888), The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot (1894), and “I’m Half-Sick of Shadows,” Said the Lady of Shalott (1915).

The lady is framed in a mirror – so what we see is not her but her reflection, no more real than the painted sun and moon looking upon her from the ceiling, all to symbolize the falseness of her world, where, unloved, she lives a life of solitude.

The mirror as an element in art history has first appeared in Jan Van Eyk’s oil painting «The Arnolfini Portrait» (1434). This work of art is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art: for the first time, a simple corner of the real world had suddenly been fixed on to a panel as if by magic…

Later, in 1656, in Diego Velasquez’s Las Meninas a mirror is depicted again and its reflexion.

It seems that the painters of the Preraphaelites group have been largerly influenced by Van Euyk’s painting having painted mirrors in many of their artworks: The awakening conscience, (William Holman Hunt,1853), Take your son sir!, (Fold Madox Brown, 1851), Lucrezia Borgia, (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1860/1), La Belle Iseult, (William Morris, 1858), Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor, (Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1861), A youth relating tales to ladies, (Simeon Solomon,1870), Il dolce far niente, (William Holman Hunt, 1866),  the portrait of Margaret Burne-Jones (Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1880), to mention but a few…

The exhibition Reflexions: Van Euyk and the Preraphaelites which is currently on show at the National Gallery in London, demonstrates the secret bonds between theNetherlandish painter and the Preraphaelites and how the latter have been influenced by Van Euyk to integrate the mirror in their paintings.

At the images above, four different versions of the theme by John William Waterhouse (image n.1), Minje Su (n.2),  Elisabeth Eleanor Siddal (n.3) and William Holman Hunt (n.4). See (and listen) also Loreena McKennitt’ s Lady of Shalott inspired by the poetry and iconography of the famous lady  here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFF03IbIlY

Where: at the exhibition Van Euyk and the Preraphaelites, National Gallery, London

When: 16/11/2018

What: The Lady of Shalott (paintings, poetry, song)

(More info: http://oxfordstudent.com/2017/01/25/lady-shalott-post-pre-raphaelite-endeavour/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ὄνο νό Κομάτσι ἡ Ἰδιοφυής (16 ΤΆΝΚΑ)- Μετάφραση ἀπό τ᾽ ἀγγλικά: Σοφία Γιοβάνογλου

04 Κυριακή Σεπτ. 2016

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2.
Ἡ νύχτα ἡ φθινοπωρινή
εἶναι μακριά μόνο κατ᾽ ὄνομα-
δέν ἔχουμε
παρά μονάχα κοιταχτεῖ
καί εἶναι ἤδη χαραυγή.
[ἀπό τήν ἀγγλική μετάφραση τῶν Jane Hirshfield καί Mariko Aratani]
3.
Δέν σηκωνόμαστε
οὖτε γιά νερό
ἀφότου τό φεγγάρι ἀνατείλει.
Κυλιόμαστε ᾽δῶ πέρα
λάμποντας.
[ἀπό τήν ἀγγλική μετάφραση τῶν Jane Hirshfield καί Mariko Aratani]
4.
Θά ὑπάρχει ἄραγε ἀκόμη
αὐτό τό ἁπαλό ρόζ χνούδι
στό τόξο
τοῦ λευκοῦ σου στέρνου
ὅταν ἐγώ στό σπίτι θά κοιμᾶμαι;
Πηγή: περιοδικό Θράκα: Ὄνο νό Κομάτσι ἡ Ἰδιοφυής (16 ΤΆΝΚΑ) [Μετάφραση ἀπό τ᾽ ἀγγλικά: Σοφία Γιοβάνογλου], για το video Art Magazine

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