Trim marks: February 2012

Monday, February 27, 2012

Junior Illustration II show in the Illustration Gallery

On view until March 9th.

Hey guys, don't miss our Show!

The images shown in that exhibition correspond to the following projects:

Top > Short narrative projects developed from sentences that incorporate the word "Eye".

5 images compose each project : 4 final sketches and, at least, one final illustration. Selected sentences are incorporated to each image

Bottom > Project of murals for the Guinean school Aruna Embalo, Quelele, Guinea-Bissau.

Resources:

- Cyclop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops

Member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed"

- Polyphemus (Odyssey – Book 9): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphemus

- Un chien Andalou by Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali: http://www.zappinternet.com/video/danPvuMpaX/Un-chien-Andalou-1928

+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou

- Eyes without a face by Georges Franju, 1960: http://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Without_a_Face

Ferme les yeux: http://www.claudiaranucci.com/2009/09/10/hello-world/

> " If you look at the forest, it will be out of you. If closed eyes you listen, you will be part of it"

- Herve Tullet: http://www.herve-tullet.com/

J’ai les yeux fermes.

+ http://www.herve-tullet.com/fr/boite-10/Le-jeu-des-yeux.html

- Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young (Indian tale).

In the story seven little mice each examine a different part of the elephant and decide they know what the object is. However, it isn’t until the seventh mouse runs across, around, up, and down – over the entire elephant and reveals its true identity. The story ends with the moral: “Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.”

- The big eyes By Jane Cabrera, UK: http://jane-cabrera-illustrator.blogspot.com/

- The boy with two eyes by Ulises Wensell and J.L. Garcia Sanchez.

Synopsis: People with only one eye live in a similar place to earth.

At the amazement of all, a child was born with two eyes. Although society considers him a misfit, the young boy is gradually accepted because of his special gift; he can se colors and tells what he sees.

http://bib.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/p300/01482630878920717460035/index.htm

More images: http://www.bookstopliterary.com/img/illustrators/Wensell/UWENSELLselected.pdf

- The rape, painting by Rene Magritte, Belgium: http://www.all-art.org/art_20th_century/magritte1.html

This should have been the portrait of a young girl, pretty likely, corresponding to a Western archetype of beauty, as blonde as the Virgin Mary, as the platinum blondes of Hollywood cinema. But, as said Sigmund Freud. there has been a "transfer".

- The False Mirror, painting by Magritte.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Women and Becassine

Who was Becassine: a small, nice and innocent girl from Brittany who was full of good intentions and energy. "Bécassine" is a nickname, derived from the French word for a number of birds of the family of the snipe, which is also used as a way of saying "fool" in French. She is usually portrayed without a mouth.
The principal artist who sketched this fascinating character was Emile Pinchon. Always in step with time, Bécassine was an aviatrix, teacher, alpinist, and from 1921, the nanny for the popular Loulotte. As the first heroine of animated books or comic books, Bécassine knew how to break the mold to become a timeless myth. She was able to go beyond just a comic book character. She came in all forms either of wood or stuffed wearing her costume. Her image appeared as an umbrella handle, as lamps, mechanical toys, ash trays, key rings, stationary, knick-knacks, etc. She was also the subject of a film, a well-known song and most recently a full-length animated cartoon.

The list below is not exhaustive, but there are some interesting personalities.

Coitadinhas de serviço:

- U Jane (Me Tarzan); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxSzcWLIhiQ

A recent movie: > Albert Nobbs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Nobbs

+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66N5hjkq740

Artists/Writers:

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy

http://www.facebook.com/aliaa.magda.elmahdy.blog

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/aliaa-magda-elmahdy-naked_n_1099081.html

- Taslima Nasreen, Bangladesh: http://taslimanasrin.com/

- Sister Mary Corita, USA: https://www.corita.org/corita-kent.html

- Julie Doucet, Canada: http://www.juliedoucet.net/

- Claire Bretechet, France: http://www.clairebretecher.com/

- Susan Sontag, USA http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/index.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag

Activists (politician. Etc):

- Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth

African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.

- Tasanee Keereepraneed, Safe Haven orphanage. Thailand Burma Border: http://safehavenorphanage.org/about.html

Her story: http://asiarecipe.com/thaigiving1.html

- Nobel Prize 2011:

> Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf

> Leymah Gbowee, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leymah_Gbowee

> Tawakkol Karman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawakel_Karman

- Nobel Prize 2003:

> Shirin Ebadi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Ebadi

- Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011): http://greenbeltmovement.org/w.php?id=59

Kenyan environmental and political activist. In 1986, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

- Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

- Flora Tristan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Tristan

- Chékéba Hachémi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csAz8kIn-jE&feature=player_embedded#

- Pratibha Patil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratibha_Patil

- Olivia Arthur: http://www.oliviaarthur.com/

Travelers:

- Phoebe Omlie, USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Omlie

+ Woman pilot magazine: http://womanpilot.com/

- Isabelle Eberhardt, Switzerland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Eberhardt (See Trotamundas Press Below)

- Alexandra David-Neel, Switzerland: http://www.alexandra-david-neel.org/anglais/acca.htm

- Calamity Jane, USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane

Sport:

- Althea Gibson, USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Gibson

"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."

- Pariyakorn Ratanasuban, Thailand:

http://www.onesongchai.com/en/-pariyakorn-ratanasuban.html

About: The one and only female boxing promotion Ms.Pariyakorn Ratanasuban incorporate with The United Nations, campaign against Violence toward women and children and make 25th of November “The Prevention of Violence toward Women & Children Day”. After gaining reputation in Boxing Promotion Business, Promoter Pariyakorn Ratanasuban is trying to make Muaythai self-defending art for women and children.

Resources:
The media's manipulative influence over your morals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZkC_fNxmQk
- Feminist Majority Foundation, USA: http://www.feminist.org/welcome/chronology/timeline.asp
The Feminist Majority Foundation’s Global Campaign has always been based on the belief that the fight we face on the domestic front and the fight we face on the global front for women’s rights are not two separate battles: They are one and the same. Women’s rights are human rights.
- Places where women made history: http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/womlist1.htm
- The women’s Museum, USA: http://www.thewomensmuseum.org/
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC: http://www.nmwa.org/
- Alice Hawkins The history of Womens Rights, UK: http://www.alicesuffragette.co.uk/
- Focus on Women: http://www.focusonwomen.es/mujeres-con-focus/
- Miss representation: http://www.missrepresentation.org/
- Women's Forum for the Economy and Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Forum_for_the_Economy_and_Society
- National Organization for Women: http://www.now.org/
- Feminist.com: http://www.feminist.com/
- Trotamundas Press: http://nuke.trotamundaspress.com
An international publisher specializing in travel literature written by women travellers from different countries and cultures.
+ http://www.mujeresviajeras.com/
- La Barbe: http://www.labarbelabarbe.org/La_Barbe/Accueil.html
- Ni Putes Ni Soumises: http://www.npns.fr/
- Les chiennes de garde: http://www.chiennesdegarde.com/
- http://www.jesuisfeministe.com/
- Zero macho: http://www.zeromacho.eu/anglais.html

A few soft pictures: