#la belle hélène

[bernar444]

"Toilet of Helen, La Belle Hélène", (1914), oil on canvas | Bryson Burroughs (American, 1869-1934) | The Walters Art Museum.

#art #oil on canvas #painting #Toilet of Helen #La Belle Hélène #1914 #Henry Bryson Burroughs (8 September 1869 – November 1934) #American artist and employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art #The Walters Art Museum

[larmaro]

La belle Hélène, 2019

#Delphine Beaulieu #Julien Dran #La belle Hélène #Jacques Offenbach #movies tv etc

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Jakob “Jacques” Offenbach (1819 – 1880) dies in Paris. Offenbach is best remembered for two artistic achievements: First, for his pioneering work as the creator of a type of light burlesque French comic opera popularly known as “operetta,” which became one of the most characteristic "pop" musical products of the latter half of the 19th Century. Second, perhaps ironically, for his own masterpiece -- and one of only two operas he ever wrote that *wasn’t* an operetta -- “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (“The Tales of Hoffmann”), a “grand opera” which remained unfinished at his death. (It was subsequently orchestrated and provided with recitatives and produced at the Opera-Comique in early 1881, where it proved to be a smash hit. It remains a part of the international operatic repertoire to this day.) Offenbach combined a remarkably fluent and elegant musical style with a highly developed sense of both characterization and satire – indeed, no less an expert on matters of the theater than legendary "opera buffa" composer Giacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868) dubbed him “our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysees.” Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, “Orphee aux enfers” (“Orpheus in the Underworld”) -- which features the (in)famous “Can-Can” dance -- in 1858, and it was perhaps the biggest hit of his career; it is certainly the most frequently performed of his many operettas today. In many ways, both directly and indirectly, Offenbach can fairly be said to be the great-grandfather of the theatrical genre now commonly referred to as the “musical.” PICTURED: One of the many sheets of musical sketches written out by Offenbach over the years in connection with various projects (both realized and unrealized), which were then dispersed as "souvenirs" after his death. The completed work to which this particular sketch sheet is connected -- if any -- has not yet been identified.

#Jacques Offenbach #Orphée aux enfers #Romantic period #Les contes d'Hoffmann #Paris Conservatoire #Opéra-Comique #La belle Hélène #Operetta #composer #music history #classical music history

[robinfrinjs]

Always There, Women in Motorsport: The fast women of la belle époque

Women's history in motorsport is rich, and that has always been the case. Most of these stories however aren’t well known and aren’t spoken about enough. Women have always been in motorsport and always will be.

Three French women, Hélène van Zuylen, Camille du Gast, and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart are some of the fastest women from France’s La Belle Epoque (circa 1880-1914).

In 1898 Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1847-1933) (also known as the Duchess of Uzes) became the first woman in France to obtain her driver’s license. While getting out of the car she announced with delight that woman had just overcome a new barrier. Not long after she also became the first to be caught speeding for which she had to pay a five franc fine.

in 1926 she founded the first female Automobile Club, L'Automobile Club féminin de France (ACFF)

The Duchess of Uzes in 1927

Hélène van Zuylen (pictured on the cover image) was a French author but also the first woman to compete in an international auto race. Baron Etienne van Zuylen, her husband, was the President of the Automobile Club de France

She entered the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris using the nickname Snail, while her husband used the nickname Escargot. She successfully competed the trail and entered the Paris-Berlin race in 1901 but was stopped by technical failure.

That year Hélène, a lesbian, would meet Renée Vivien with whom she would have an affair. Vivien's letters to a confidant revealed that she considered herself married to Hélène. Most of Vivien's work is dedicated to "H.L.C.B.," the initials of Zuylen's first names.

Just over a decade before she died, Hélène van Zuylen created the Renée Vivien Prize, Honoring the woman she loved and intending to give encouragement to female writers.

Hélène van Zuylen - Nouvelle Revue internationale illustrée, December 1908

Camille du Gast (1868-1942) finished 33rd (19th in class) out of 122 participants in the 1901 Paris-Berlin race. Du Gast, achieved the results despite driving her husband's 20CV Panhard-Levassor which was not designed for racing. She had to start the race in last because she was a woman. The race did mark 2 female competitors with du Gast and van Zuylen. She loved several extreme sports such as mountaineering, parachuting and frencing.

In 1902 she competed in the Paris-Vienna race and also wanted to compete in the New York-San Francisco but was refused entry because she was a woman.

In 1903 she would start the Paris-Madrid race. Which she would enter with a proper racing car, a works 5.7-litre de Dietrich car. It was a chaotic race with 207 competitors which unfortunately saw several deaths. Camille started in 29th and gained 9 positions in the first 120 km. She had climbed up to P8 before stopping to give medical aid to a fellow driver, Phil Stead (also driving a de Dietrich) involved in a near-fatal crash.

Camille du Gast in her 30 hp De Dietrich with starting number 29 during the 1903 Paris-Madrid Race

Later one of the leading drivers at that time, Charles Jarrot said that if Camille had not stopped Stead likely would have died. After an ambulance arrived she continued the race eventually finishing 44th or 45th in the shortened race.

The French government would stop the race at Bordeaux, as over half of the field (275 cars) had either crashed or retired and several drivers and spectators had died.

Open road racing was banned, so in 1904 Camille wanted to participate in the French elimination trial for the Gordon Bennett races, as the Benz factory team offered du Gast a race seat. But the Autosport Club France (ACF) banned women from racing. Du Gast published a letter in protest but the ban was defended as the ACF could not risk a woman getting injured or killed in a racing event.

Because of this she ventured to boat racing. One of those races was caught by a big storm which saw most competitors either abandon their ship or they sank. She was rescued and later declared the winner of that race.

Eventually she had to put a halt to her adventurous life when she survived an assassination attempt by her daughter. Nothing was ever the same for her after that. From that point she devoted herself to animals. She would serve as president of the 'French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals'

NEXT UP > More female racing drivers from the early 1900s

#Hélène van Zuylen #Camille du Gast #Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart #Women's Motorsport History #*History Series #*History Series: Always There Women in Motorsport #Women in Motorsport #Also a little bit of queer motorsport history ! #international women's day

[sgiandubh]

But first, time to say good-bye

It was to be a late departure (bureaucracy will someday kill us all...) from Athens, an endlessly diverted way North through a very early summer and some fitful sleep near the border, where poppies were already in bloom and elusive to the camera:

I promised to share with you my story with Mycenae the day I would leave Greece for good. Yesterday was the day, so here goes.

I first went to Mycenae on a horrendously rainy day, in November 2018. The place struck me as a haphazard settlement of sorts in the wake of some ancient apocalypse, which was absolutely correct. We stayed in my colleague from Culture and Press' car, munched on some horribly stale koulouria as all hell broke loose outside, when she finally told me: ' you know what, I am happy we made it here: in Mycenae, you can only hear and tell the truth, you know'.

I have to say I ogled in suspicion. I was wet, hungry and completely unused to the Greek way of dressing everything up in mythology. She spoke Greek as I speak French and knew perfectly well what she was doing. She was casting a spell - an unbreakable one, for which I will forever be grateful. Oh, and as all myths would have it, the Lion Gate was closed, by the time we arrived.

It took me almost two years to go back there, during the pandemic, scared summer of 2020, when everything was empty and glorious to fully take in, like a big gulp of colors and sounds and life. My digs were to be always the same: unassuming Petite Planète, the last B&B in town, a stone throw away from Agamemnon's treasury, owned by the Dassis clan of archaeologists.

Their story begins in Constantinople, around 1875, when Konstantinos, a young orphan, begged Heinrich Schliemann to take him along to wherever he was traveling. He quickly became indispensable and helped with the first digs in Mycenae. He was the one who found Agamemnon's mask:

When the digging was over, Schliemann bought him a tiny house for two pence and a half and told him to stay there. 'Many people will come to visit and they will need food and a roof. Make sure you do your best and it will make you a rich man.'

And they came. In droves. If you ask nicely, V. will show you their reception rosters, safely tucked away in a bank vault, in Argos. I had the privilege to see Virginia Woolf's signature and I was stunned. Schliemann's two pence house is now doubled by a garish modern addition you can see from the main road as La Belle Hélène B&B ('my cousin Agamemnon is a greedy idiot', says V), but Schliemann's room is piously kept as it was when the strange German gentleman left them to their fate. As is, they did not become rich, but that does not matter. You will always find a place at their wonderful table, where Mamma Dassis cooks the same food they ate back in Constantinople and they would not have it otherwise. The new, bigger and better B&B is called Petite Planète because of V's father undying passion for Saint Exupéry's Little Prince. It permeates everything without being obtrusive, because sometimes 'the essential is invisible to the eye'.

Back in 2020, they were worried. Very worried. The Lion Gate was open again, but the 'cretins at Google' wouldn't have it and kept on listing it as closed, on their maps. People were canceling their bookings. The village stood unusually quiet and forlorn.

I made no promises. But I did phone some people at the Greek Ministry of Culture. The least person I expected to be of any help, H, a transparent, mousey freeloader, who was always the last to leave all of our events in the hope we'd take her to dinner in town, happened to be some sort of underling at the Archaeological Sites Department. She immediately understood what I wanted her to do.

Three days after I left Mycenae, on my road trip to the Mani peninsula, I received this message in my Booking inbox:

This started it all. And from that moment, all my Greek roads will lead there. It's also been a long time since I have trouble forcefully paying them for my monthly stays (booking and paying in advance helps, though), something they adamantly refused last time I went there:

'G., the girl wants to pay.'

'This is ridiculous, of course. This girl is family.'

Someday, I just know I will be back. For good.

After five years and a half, many more fabulous stories (Mycenean potter and poet, anyone? mad postman? Kyria Stamatoula and her goats? Kyrios Pandelis and his jams?) the only thing I know about Greece is that, for all its (many) misgivings, this land is about two things:

Friends and Heroes.

#psa #life as is #Peloponnese #mycenae

[yuurei20]

Happy Birthday to Epel’s VA, Tsuchiya Simba!

In the past year he has voiced characters in projects such as

・Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Doom of Dragon's Sanctuary ・Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem ・Shinkalion: Change the World

・HIGH CARD (with Leona’s Umehara, Ortho’s Aoi and Silver’s Shimazaki) ・Hibike! Euphonium 3 (with Sebek’s Ishiya) ・BURN THE WITCH #0.8

He has also been acting in stage productions such as Wait Until the Storm Comes, La belle Hélène and more.

#twstseiyuu #twisted wonderland #tsuchiya simba #epel felmier

[tournevole]

ERIS ERIS, fille de Nyx, est la déesse du chaos et de la discorde. C'est une femme magnifique représentée par de grandes ailes noires qui, selon la légende, aurait jeté une pomme d'or portant l'inscription "Pour la plus belle", lors du mariage de Thétis et Pelée, en réponse à une non-invitation à la fête. Une fruit doré qui engendrera la Guerre de Troie, car des 3 déesses auxquels la pomme se destinait, c'est Aphrodite qui a été choisie par Pâris (lui promettant l'amour éternel d'une femme : Hélène).

#eris #mythologie #mythe #nyx

[chal-latte]

ok I’m here to drop some inspo ✨☝🏻 what about y/n!actress with timmy at a friend’s wedding and well of course y/n sings so she performs ‘my man’ (Barbra’s song but glee version, yeah I’m a musical person lol) and of course she glares and looks at timmy all the time (maybe some fans uploading photos of their outfits and stories about hearing y/n singing) 💌🌷 I hope I can send some more inspo soon <3 love you!

a/n: HI LOVER <33 wait fuck I LITERALLY REAd ur text wrong this whole time i fucking thot u asked for them getting married not them attending a friend’s wedding IM SO 😭😭😭😭 SORRY OMG SJFJJSJDJS PLS DONT HATE ME FOR MAKING U WAIT AND THEN PROCEEDS TO GET THE MESSAGE WRONG 😭😭😭😭 I WAS DONE W ALL THIS THEN I REREAD UR TEXT omg i hope this could do it anyway haha lmk what u think

y/i/n

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y/i/n may we find each other in every lifetime, timothée 🤍 

tagged: @tchalamet​ @dior @samyoukillis @samvissermakeup 

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*pinned by @y/i/n

fanpage23 ARE YOU GUYS READING THE PINNED COMMENT😭😭😭😭😭

fanpage23 ARE YOU GUYS READING THE PINNED COMMENT😭😭😭😭😭

fanpage10 god rly has favorites huh

alanabc certified milf 👼

fanpage99 AND THATS TO FOREVER

enews congratulations y/n and timothee!

fanpage57 she’s so angelic 

dior we’re very honored to be trusted for making your wedding gown 🤍

nicoleflender qu’est-ce qu’elle est belle, la jeune mariée ❤️

↪️ y/i/n oh nicole ❤️❤️

bellahadid im rewatching the vid i took when you sung my man and im still crying im just SO FCKIN HAPPY FOR YOU Y/N PIE!!!!

fanpage37 and they say romance is dead

devonleecarlson princessaaaa 🫶🪷🫶🪷🫶

fanpage29 apparently if you search best wedding 2022 on google, this pictures will appear on top

alexademie all my love 

gigihadid what a day to remember!! love you lots y/n!!!

louispartridge_ my twin sister 👯‍♀️

↪️ y/i/n haha louis i was supposed to be the only one in white 🙄

fanpage38 everytime y/n and louis are bitching at each other i find another will to live 

pauline.chalamet

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pauline.chalamet having you by my side until now has been the greatest gift life could ever give to me. then you brought y/n along and now we’re content and complete. she’s been in the family since forever but onto eternity 🥂 everybody welcome y/n chalamet! 

tagged: @y/i/n @tchalamet 

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sillyblondepsycho Y/N 🗣🗣🗣 CHALAMET 🗣🗣🗣

fanpage83 IM SO HAPPY FOR THEM 

fanpage19 SHE’S BEEN IN THE FAMILY SINCE FOREVER 😩😭😩😭

stephanebak 🔥🔥

fanpage11 that all black suit slaps i swear 

jeannedamas congratulations!!

fanpage90 CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU TOO PAULINE FOR HAVING A NEW SISTER IN THE FAMILY

fanpage88 they r so hot!!! best siblings of the century tbh

itsjuliebowen truly happy for you! can’t wait to meet the newlyweds

fanpage22 cant get over the fact that pauline wrote a poem for them both 

↪️ fanpage20 i thought it was a no phone party

↪️ fanpage22 @fanpage20 check deuxmoi

irisapatow cUUuuuuUtEee

helenepambrun trop trop trop contente ❤️❤️❤️

tchalamet

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tchalamet la femme de ma vie, y/n chalamet. 

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y/i/n et toi, mon coeur ❤️‍🔥

*pinned

fanpage29 theyre so fucking in love its beautiful oh my god

fanpage11 for fucking real!!!

fanpage28 me when

gretagerwig i believe i wrote about you guys in the past life. but anywho, let’s celebrate! 

fanpage13 it should’ve been meeee

↪️ fanpage98 lol let them be happy ffs

h.a lovebirds

jamie_grooming you guys are shining ✨✨

jessicachastain there you go tim! promise i’ll make it up for my absence ❤️

↪️ tchalamet we’ll happy to welcome you

↪️ y/i/n @jessicachastain YAY MOTHER 

theweeknd true love 🖤

dunemovie from arrakis with love🔥

fanpage81 i believe they have had several photoshoot together pre wedding bc this isn’t what he wore yesterday

↪️ fanpage67 i think so too based on hélène pambrun’s insta

fanpage33 HIS SPEECH THO

↪️ fanpage48 when he quoted, “whatever our souls are made of, hers and mine are the same.” yeah. people died. y/n cried and i DIED.

opheliamillaiss they made me believe in love again

jacquemus LOVE WINS ❤️✨🕊

vogue

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vogue congratulations to the it couple, @tchalamet​ and @y/i/n. settling down their vows they have celebrated a private enchanting wedding in bali. discover more about their relationship timeline link in our bio. (photo: @gregwilliamsphotography)

tagged: @tchalamet @y/i/n

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fanpage92 the most beautiful couple

fanpage10 i wish i was invited

fanpage20 they were glued together all night! 

fanpage16 harry styles performed golden in their ceremony and it was the most. charming. thing. ever. i cried so bad omg

↪️ fanpage43 and when y/n walked down the aisle with lana’s video game playing <\333

fanpage77 young love <3

fanpage71 ❤️❤️❤️

tchalamet tagged @y/i/n in a story

#timothee chalamet #timothee chalamet imagine #paul atreides #paul atreides imagine #timothee chalamet imagines #instagram au #timothee chalamet au #imagine

[denimbex1986]

'...Close Your Eyes led the nominations alongside Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers with 10 apiece. Strangers ended up the biggest winner of the day with four: Lead Actor Andrew Scott as a gay man finally coming to terms with his painful repression; Supporting Actor Jamie Bell as the ghostly, apologetic dad who failed to save him from bullying; the film’s entire otherworldly Ensemble, including strong turns from Claire Foy and Paul Mescal; and writer-director Andrew Haigh for his lovingly crafted Adapted Screenplay based on a novel by Taichi Yamada...

BEST PICTURE

1. Close Your Eyes 2. All of Us Strangers...

BEST DIRECTOR • Lila Avilés – Tótem • Victor Erice – Close Your Eyes – WINNER • Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest • Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers • Radu Jude – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Runner-up • Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall – Runner-up

LEAD ACTOR • Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers • Karim Leklou – Sons of Ramses • Josh O’Connor – La Chimera • Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers – WINNER • Manolo Solo – Close Your Eyes – Runner-up • Koji Yakusho – Perfect Days

SUPPORTING ACTOR • Jamie Bell – All of Us Strangers – WINNER • José Coronado – Close Your Eyes – Runner-up • Mateo Garcia – Tótem • Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall • Charles Melton – May December • Ben Whishaw – Passages

SUPPORTING ACTRESS • Claire Foy – All of Us Strangers • Julianne Moore – May December • Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers • Catalina Saavedra – Rotting in the Sun • Ana Torrent – Close Your Eyes – Runner-up • Ana Torrent – Foremost by Night – WINNER

ENSEMBLE • All of Us Strangers – WINNER • Anatomy of a Fall • Asteroid City • Close Your Eyes • Society of the Snow • Tótem – Runner-up

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY • All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh – WINNER • The Beast in the Jungle – Patric Chiha, Jihane Chouaib, Axelle Ropert • Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese • Poor Things – Tony McNamara • Society of the Snow – J.A. Bayona, Jaime Marques, Bernat Vilaplana, Nicolás Casariego • The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer – Runner-up

CINEMATOGRAPHY • All of Us Strangers – Jamie Ramsay • Close Your Eyes – Valentín Álvarez • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Dinh Duy Hung – runner-up • La Chimera – Hélène Louvart • Samsara – Mauro Herce, Jessica Sarah Rinland – WINNER • The Zone of Interest – Lukasz Zal

EDITING • All of Us Strangers – Jonathan Alberts • Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal – WINNER • Close Your Eyes – Ascen Marchena • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Catalin Cristutiu – Runner-up • Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame • Society of the Snow – Andrés Gil, Jaume Martí

SOUND DESIGN • All of Us Strangers – Joakim Sundström • The Boy and the Heron – Koji Kasamatsu • Maestro – Richard King, Steve Morrow, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, Dean Zupancic • Oppenheimer – Richard King, Kevin O’Connell, Gary A. Rizzo, Willie Burton • Samsara – Xabier Erkizia, Luca Rulio – WINNER • The Zone of Interest – Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers – Runner-up...'

#International Cinephile Society #Andrew Haigh #Andrew Scott #All of Us Strangers #Jamie Bell #Claire Foy #Joakim Sundstrom #Jonathan Alberts #Jamie Ramsay #Strangers #Taichi Yamada

[mybeingthere]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 — 1901) Mademoiselle Cocyte in "La Belle Hélène", 1900, Watercolour and pencil on paper, 62 x 48 cm, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec. 

[phototopclasse]

“Poire Belle Hélène”, une recette de la chef Kelly Jolivet du restaurant Benoit à Paris IV°.

[monotonous-minutia]

kinda wanna liveblog the Pelly La belle Hélène even though I've watched it like five times

#it's such a fun production of a severely underrated opera #im in my annual greek mythology kick again #i wish id grabbed all the Aeschylus/Sophocles/Euripides books from my parents' house last time i was there #to be fair i didn't know it was going to be my last time there #anyway

[aschenblumen]

Valentin Silvestrov, Silent songs (3. La belle dame sans merci). Konstantin Krimmel, barítono Hélène Grimaud, piano

¡Por fin disponible el disco completo!

#valentin silvestrov #silent songs #konstantin krimmel #hélène grimaud

[leblogdemarinaetjeanmarie]

SAMEDI 9 DECEMBRE 2023 (Billet 1 / 3)

« Les cent cinquante ans d’un géant »

Nous célébrons cette année les cent cinquante ans de la naissance de Sergueï Rachmaninov. Ce compositeur était un pianiste extraordinaire, réputé pour ses mains gigantesques, lui permettant de jouer des intervalles immenses que l’on retrouve parfois dans ses œuvres.

Permettez-moi de vous proposer un instant musical : écoutez l’inouï premier mouvement de son Concerto pour piano N° I. Durant cette dizaine de minutes d’une beauté sauvage, toutes les émotions de l’âme humaine se succèdent, s'enchevêtrent, s’affrontent, et se réconcilient. Montez le son ! »

(Source : « La Lettre du Figaro de Louis Lecomte du mercredi 6 décembre 2023 »)

_____________________________

Nous n’avons pas trouvé sur le Net une vidéo qu’avec le premier mouvement de ce célèbre Concerto. Alors, si vous êtes pressés, n’en écoutez que les 10 premières minutes.

Par contre, si vous avez le temps et une belle petite paire d’enceintes reliée à votre PC, allez jusqu’au bout, vous ne serez pas déçus. Et tant pis si ce n’est pas votre pianiste préféré(e). Nous, nous avions entendu il y a quelques années les 2 concertos interprétés par Hélène Grimaud à la Cité de la Musique… Nous avions adoré ! Musique, talent ET beauté : une alliance quasi divine !

Sinfonieorchester Sankt Gallen : the musicians

Modestas Pitrenas : conductor

Anna Fedorova : piano

Recording : Sunday the 2nd of February 2020, live in Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

_______________________________

Nous dédions ce Billet à Bernard Pivot.

#Youtube

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue October 15, 1957 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

By Lanvin-Castillo "Habanera", detailing all the unparalleled beauties of lace in a single evening gown. The black lace pattern here, a flower slips on amber and white satin, a short bell skirt. Long glove-like sleeves.

De Lanvin-Castillo "Habanera", détaillant toutes les beautés inégalées de la dentelle dans une seule robe de soirée. Le motif de dentelle noire ici, une fleur glisse sur du satin ambre et blanc, une jupe courte en cloche. Manches longues en forme de gant.

Model/Modèle: Marie-Hélène Arnaud

Photo William Klein

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#us vogue #october 1957 #fall/winter #automne/hiver #fashion 50s #lanvin castillo #haute couture #french designer #french style #marie hélène arnaud #william klein #habanera #robe du soir #robe en dentelle #lace gown #gown dress

[fashionbooksmilano]

Feest

Illustrations by Kenne Grégoire

Text by Magdaleen van Herk

Bekking & Blitz Uitgevers, Amersfoort 2016, 112 pages,  Dutch, 22,5 x 22,7, ISBN  978-9061095057

euro 25,00

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Kenne Grégoire  è un pittore olandese con diverse aree tematiche, in cui esplora diversi approcci (il più importante è la natura morta). Lavora dipingendo la bellezza, ma anche tristezza, decadimento e deterioramento.

Grégoire proviene da una famiglia di artisti, è figlio dello scultore Paul Grégoire e fratello minore di Pépé Grégoire. Ha studiato all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Amsterdam (1967-1973), dove gli è stato insegnato, tra gli altri, Otto de Kat. Grégoire dipinge figurativo, tra le altre nature morte, ritratti, nudi, interni e figure della Commedia dell'arte. Nel 1973 ha vinto il Silver Prix de Rome. Nella primavera del 2009, il Museo "De buitenplaats" di Eelde, nei Paesi Bassi, ha tenuto una retrospettiva del suo lavoro.

Jean Josquin ‘Kenne’ Grégoire (b. 1951) creates depth in this still life using the old trompe-l’oeil tradition. Our ‘eye is deceived’ by a painted door with a round opening. Cropping and overlapping, reinforce the sense of three-dimensionality. Grégoire allows some objects, such as the tea towel and flowers, to protrude from the hole as if you can almost grasp them. Other objects, like the mask and the wooden boxes, partially disappear behind the edge of the opening. The painted shadows also contribute to the sense of depth and verisimilitude. Grégoire often uses a 17th-century painting technique, namely, colour glazes applied in several layers over a grisaille underdrawing. However, he generally does this with contemporary acrylic paint. His subjects and themes are diverse, ranging from figures referencing the commedia dell’arte to situations in which humans are emphatically absent: beds that have been slept in, uncleared tables, and ruins, as well as desolate classical buildings, trompe-l’oeils and still lifes in unusual perspective. An elementary feature of Grégoire’s work is a slight sense of alienation – he wants to amaze and entertain, to create illusions, not destroy them. Grégoire comes from a family of artists: his father sculptor Paul Grégoire (1915-1988), his older sister Hélène a painter, and his brother Pépé a sculptor (b. 1946 and 1950, respectively). Kenne studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1967-1973).

25/12/22

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