tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post1386151004073767492..comments2023-11-22T04:10:49.266-05:00Comments on Dispatches from Zembla: Image of the DayAlokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-11170898251738196402007-09-08T23:48:00.000-05:002007-09-08T23:48:00.000-05:00Mr Zemblayes, different POVs on the same subject d...Mr Zembla<BR/>yes, different POVs on the same subject do make the world so vibrantly distinct.. <BR/>I may not sway towards the imminent carnival where "femininity" is celebrated with the utmost gaiety...what really arouses interest in both the victim (here the creator, thw writer and the painter) and the reason (a honey-skinned pubescent girl) is the initial realisations, the headiness of the first flight into something so beautiful,a sense of wonderment at the afct that it unfurled from a young body,the fragile layer of arrogance over the effect resulted within the milieuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-85130946604390722952007-09-08T15:10:00.000-05:002007-09-08T15:10:00.000-05:00szerelem: have seen a few of Egon Schiele along wi...szerelem: have seen a few of Egon Schiele along with Klimt and Kokoschka in new york museums. <BR/><BR/>There was certainly something disturbing about the way the expressionists saw sexuality and eros. It is present in the german painters of the period too. Some paintings by Munch has this quality too.<BR/><BR/>jyothsnay: I can trust you to see the celebration of femininity and budding womanhood everywhere... there are obviously different ways of seeing the same things. there are no clear-cut demarcations which separate one viewpoint from another.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-64575092927016030042007-09-08T03:26:00.000-05:002007-09-08T03:26:00.000-05:00I found the painting "langurously beautiful" and a...I found the painting "langurously beautiful" and a marvelous creation..am trapped by the streaks or strokes of languor around her slender legs...how arrogant they look! <BR/><BR/>nothing is more exhilarating than "philistine vulgarity"<BR/><BR/>I feel he was taken by surprise, his eyes were mesmerised by her impudent vibrant youthfulness & by the fact that her temper was so like his own. Why cant one see a subtle conflict as nurtured by the initial gentle flutterings of femininity, trapped between the slender folds of child-like innocence..that first ever recognition of glorious deelopments unfurled across the body, the sheer excitement...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-70485935238760351442007-09-08T00:42:00.000-05:002007-09-08T00:42:00.000-05:00I find the painting a bit more disturbing than the...I find the painting a bit more disturbing than the book giver with the photo of the girl.....<BR/>actually your post made me think of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele....I was lucky to see a lot of his work in Vienna and while I knew of him before seeing the works is person just blew me away. He is definitely one of my most favourite painters...my room is full of postcards of his paintings and sketches i picked up there.<BR/>There is a slight grotesqureness to his figures and they are very angular but completely mesmerising...and his paintings and sketches of women are just gorgeous and very erotic.<BR/>There was also a lot of scandal about his working with underage models....if you want disturbing this is it: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano/1417/03.jpgSzerelemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911190230851186924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-43440218565658826762007-09-07T07:48:00.000-05:002007-09-07T07:48:00.000-05:00Now I am feeling like that repressed governess in ...Now I am feeling like that repressed governess in that henry james story who sees sex and corruption of innocence everywhere. <BR/><BR/>nothing wrong with the girl, it is the painter's gaze that i find a little troubling.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-28682965911171985912007-09-07T01:50:00.000-05:002007-09-07T01:50:00.000-05:00I love it. When I first glanced at it, before I k...I love it. When I first glanced at it, before I knew your post was about Lolita, I thought it was of an anorexic woman, so thin, yet so confident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com