I always enjoy looking at her drawings- lovely!
A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
British sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Author: penwithlit
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What a perfectly lovely drawing!!
Lilian Westcott Hale’s mentor Edmund Tarbell exclaimed after seeing her drawings in the one-woman 1908 Boston show, “Your drawings are perfectly beautiful—as fine as anything could be. They belong with our old friends Leonardo, Holbein and Ingres, and are to me the finest modern drawings I have ever seen” (Philip Hale Papers, Box 53a, Folder 1444, SSC) and William H. Downes wrote on January 22, 1908 in The Boston Transcript that her drawings were superior to the work of the most admired artists Paul Helleu and Charles Dana Gibson and that they had “a distinct elegance of style.” In fact, Lilian Westcott Hales drawings are considered more important than her oils because her drawings are poetically tender and…
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Autoportrait Day 6~ Gabriele Münter
A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
German expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962)
1. Self-Portrait, c.1908 / Oil on cardboard / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, ES
2. Self-Portrait, c.1908-09 / Oil on canvas / Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
3. Self-Portrait, c.1909 / Oil on board / Private collection
4. Self-Portrait, 1934 / The Münter House in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany
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Turquoise Pool, Serbia
I very much agree with your provisional diagnosis of some degree of autism. I found her world seemed both narrow and claustrophobic. Nevertheless there seems some celebration of her determination to live according to her own precepts. Interesting!!
Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley
FAR EAST, SOUTH ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA
Convenience Store Woman (first published in 2016) is a quick and deceptively unchallenging read that reminded me of a Japanese Eleanor Oliphant. It has a straightforward, flowing style, which is very easy to engage with. I first read and reviewed this book in mid-2020, and I’m reposting as part of ‘Japanuary’ – my month of engagement with different aspects of Japanese culture.
Keiko, the narrator, is an outsider who has learnt to mask her true self (or lack of feeling of self) in order to fit in with society’s expectations. For almost two decades, since finishing her studies, she has worked part-time in a convenience store, mimicking the cadences and behaviour of other workers, fulfilling every stricture of the employees’ handbook and living according to a strict routine, heating food from the store for her evening…
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Strange Palm Trees
I finished the Ramat Hanadiv spread today, drawing the second page from photos, as I had a few moments when I could sort of feel my hands.
I wish I knew what these palm trees were called. They looked amazing.
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Magical Tree, Lithuania
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Medieval, Sarlat, France
Fascinating and quite similar to paintings of here in Cornwall.
Who Is Mela Muter?
Mela Muter is the pseudonym used by Maria Melania Mutermilch (1876 – 1967), the first professional Jewish painter in Poland. Although she lived most of her life in France, she was born Maria Melania Kingsland in Warsaw, Poland,daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant.
After her marriage, Muter moved from Poland to Paris in 1901, and she continued her studies at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1902, she began exhibiting her work at the Paris Salon and took part in other exhibitions, both in Paris and Poland. Muter was a popular portrait painter and occasional magazine illustrator.
Muter was one of the first members of the group of artists known as the School of…
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After several months studying and discussing poetry, Christmas has offered me the opportunity to reconsider the poetry I like and just why I like it. Christopher Reid has been a firm favourite for some time. I find him quite accessible or offering other compensations when he seems harder to understand. As I believe I mentioned previously, I find his slim volume Katerina Brac particularly interesting. Even the plain yellow cover with ionly the author and title in letters seem thrilling.
Here are two stanzas from a poem in this collection which is called Epithalamium–
Something as homely
as a cat or a clock.
But what you leave unsaid
sustains you
like the net of the heavens.
Man and wife
with your life between you
like a chessboard:
a palimsest
of innumerable possibilities.
A very interesting analysis of this book may be found at-
However, although this lengthy essay is both fascinating and illuminating in respect of the Eastern European persona of the poetess, Katarina Brac, it may be difficult to accept in one respect. Viz, that the abstract politico-philosophical elements sit uneasily with the personal feminine viewpoint which Reid is attempting to emulate.
One of the best regarded poems in this collection is “Tin Lily”. It is discussed, for instance, in Ruth Padel’s collection of 52 Poems. It is also given a useful interpretation and the poem may be read at
http://greatpoetryexplained.blogspot.com/2020/04/tin-lily-by-christopher-reid.html
I particularly like …..”It is difficult to separate the words from the razzmatazz” and applies here in 2022 as in Eastern Europe in 1985 when this collection was published first in 1985.
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