Wednesday, July 27, 2011
A couple who only wants a child living next to a garden belonging to a witch. The woman, who experience the anxiety associated with the arrival of his long-awaited pregnancy announcements Rapunzel plant planted in the garden and longs desperate to death. In each of two nights, the husband breaks into the garden to pick some of their. In a third night, as the scales of the wall to return home, the enchantress, "Dame Gothel" catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and the old promises to be lenient, on condition that the unborn child is then given to her at birth.
At these words, Rapunzel is covered with long hair, just around a hook by the window, falling down to the witch, who then would raise the hair to the tower room of Rapunzel. One day a prince walks through the woods and hears the song of Rapunzel's tower.
Desperate, the man agrees. When the baby is born, the sorceress takes up like yours, naming her Rapunzel.
When Rapunzel reached her twelfth year, the enchantress shut her into a tower in the woods or on the stairs or doors, and only one room and a window. When the witch visits Rapunzel, which is below the tower and says aloud: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so you can climb the ladder of gold.
Fascinated by her ethereal voices, find the girl and discover the tower, but, of course, cannot enter. Come back often to hear beautiful singing, and one day visit Gothel Give me see, and he learns to have access to Rapunzel. Give Gothel when it's gone, offers Rapunzel let her hair down. When it does, go up, make your acquaintance, and finally asks her to marry him. Rapunzel agreed.
Together they plan an escape route, which come every night and bring silk, Rapunzel weave slowly on a ladder. Before the plan can come to fruition, however, Rapunzel foolishly gives away Prince.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting in oil on canvas long consideration to be by Pieter Bruegel, although following technical examinations in 1996, that attribution is regarded as very doubtful. It is probably a version of a lost original by Bruegel, however, probably from the 1560s or soon after.
It is in oils whereas Bruegel's other paintings on canvas are in tempera. Based on the mythological situation by Ovid, the painting itself became the subject of a poem of the same name by William Carlos Williams and is described in W.H. Auden's poem Musee des Beaux-Arts, named after the museum in which the painting is housed in Brussels.
It is in oils whereas Bruegel's other paintings on canvas are in tempera. Based on the mythological situation by Ovid, the painting itself became the subject of a poem of the same name by William Carlos Williams and is described in W.H. Auden's poem Musee des Beaux-Arts, named after the museum in which the painting is housed in Brussels.
In Greek mythology, Icarus succeeded in flying, with wings made by his father Daedal us, using feathers protected with wax. Ignoring his father's warnings, Icarus chose to fly too close to the sun, melting the wax, and fell into the sea and drowned. His legs can be seen in the water just below the ship. The sun, already half-set on the horizon, is a long way away; the flight did not reach anywhere near it.
Though landscape paintings with the title subject represented by small figures in the distance were an established type in Early Netherlandish painting, pioneered by Joachim Patiner, to have a much larger unrelated "genre" figure in the foreground is original and represents something of a blow against the emerging hierarchy of genres. Other landscapes by Bruegel, for example The Hunters in the Snow (1565) and others in that series of paintings showing the seasons, show genre figures in a raised foreground, but not so large relative to the size of the image, nor with a subject from a "higher" class of painting in the background.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Princess Aurora was born from King Stefan and his wife, Queen Leah. At her christening, she was given gifts by two of the three fairies that showed up. Following this, the bad fairy named Maleficent showed up, angry at not being invited, and put a curse on Aurora stating that at the age of sixteen, she would prick her finger on the spindle from the spinning wheel and die. Luckily the third good fairy, named merry weather, had not presented a gift yet and is able to change the curse to sleep instead of death. Concerned, the three good fairies take Aurora to a secluded cottage in the wood and change her name to Briar Rose.
When Aurora grows to be a teenager, she is dancing and singing in the forest when she meets a handsome man who happened to hear her singing. Briar Rose does not realize he is Prince Phillip, and they agree to meet again that evening.
Meanwhile the three good fairies are preparing for her birthday and to surprise her with the news that she is a princess. But when Briar Rose returns with the news of meeting a strange but enchanting man, the fairies must tell her she can never see him again. The three fairies tell her about the future that is set for her and that night they take her back to the palace. Aurora is saddened that she will never see the man from the forest and asks to be left alone. The three fairies oblige.
Aurora suddenly sees a floating spark of light cast by Maleficent and, in a trance, follows the spark to a spinning wheel. All the three good fairies try to stop her, but Maleficent spell is too strong and Aurora touches the spindle, pricking her finger. She has been put in a bed by the fairies where she can sleep peacefully. To prevent further hurt in the kingdom, the fairies put the whole kingdom to sleep.
They discover that Prince Phillip is the man in the forest and he's walking in to a trap, and they help him confront Maleficent. After Prince Phillip fights and seemingly kills Maleficent, who transformed into a dragon, he moves upstairs to Aurora's bedroom and kisses her; she wakes up from the spell and smiles. They dance at the ball announcing her betrothal.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll. It is the follow-up to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror reflection of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (4 May), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, freezing night exactly six months later, sees frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.
Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty")—the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to a different world.
In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, "Jabberwocky", whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror. She also observes that the chess pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up.
Upon leaving the house, she enters a sunny spring garden where the flowers have the power of human speech; they perceive Alice as being a "flower that can move about." Elsewhere in the garden, Alice meets the Red Queen (now human-sized), who impresses Alice with her ability to run at amazing speeds—a reference to the chess rule that queens are able to move up to seven spaces at once, and in any direction, making them the most "agile" of the pieces.
The Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Women artists have been concerned in making art in most times and places, even though difficulties in training, travelling and trading their work, and gaining recognition. In the West the Middle Ages were possibly a better period for women artists than most of the early modern period; the later introduction of drawing from life models made it far harder, for reasons of decorum, for women to obtain the specialized training required for a professional artist.
In the latter part of the 20th Century, historians have endeavored to rediscover the artistic accomplishments of women and to give these artists their due place in the narrative of art history.
There are no records of who the artists of the prehistoric eras were, but the studies of many early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists indicate that women often were the principal artisans in the cultures considered as Neolithic, creating their pottery, textiles, baskets, and jewelry.
Collaboration on large projects was typical. Extrapolation to the artwork and skills of the Paleolithic follows the same understanding of the cultures known and studied through archaeology. Cave paintings exist that bear the handprints of women and children as well as those with the handprints of men.
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