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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
screenshots from one of extraordinarily beautiful
The Color of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova (1969)
"The Color of Pomegranates is a poetic, dreamlike film that sought to portray the life of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova through images inspired by his life and poetry. Born Haroutiun Sayakian, he is remembered as Sayat Nova or “king of songs.” Raised in the Georgian city of Tiflis (as was Sergei Parajanov himself), Sayat Nova performed in the Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Persian languages. This brought him fame beyond the Armenian community and he was summoned to serve as Court Musician and Poet by Heracle II, the 18th- century king of Georgia. After falling in love with the king’s sister, Princess Anna, he was expelled from the court. He spent the rest of his life as a monk where he continued to write poetry and music. To the Armenian people, Sayat Nova is considered a martyr because he was executed by the invading Persians for refusing to renounce his Christian faith"
more at reverseshot
Friday, December 4, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sunday, March 30, 2008
My Love (paint on glass animation)
"My Love" (Oscar Nominees) by Russian animator Alexander Petrov, based on novel "The story of my love" by the Russian writer Ivan Shmelev, which was published in the 1920's
" The story about the first love of the sixteen-year-old boy Anton. He is torn apart by his feelings for a pure and gentle girl and a femme fatale. Anton is not sure which one is the right one and his faltering steps mix up with the romantic craving for purity and heroism
The story goes through various relationships. Anton dreams of his beloved ones, argues with his cynic friend or witnesses unfaithfulness and murder in his neighborhood. The boy's own aristocratic family is another source of tension because of class bias — Pasha, one of the Anton's beloved girls, is just a maid in their home. Serafima, the other woman who fires his imagination, has a bad reputation but the young protagonist is happily unaware of it. Every time Anton touches or stares at one of the girls he sees himself in a mythological plot of rescuing her or dives deep in the imaginary sea of emotions. After a series of shy looks, presented snowdrops, secret letters or feverish kisses through the fence the story comes to an unfortunate end. Anton suddenly experiences a mental breakdown when he is disappointed by Serafima's devilish nature. Then Pasha becomes a nun in a monastery to pray for his recovery. At the very end, the young boy wakes up a man who has lost his first love."
Here is three parts with some english subtitles:
"My Love" is 27 minutes long, but it took more than three years to complete. This film is truly handmade and beautifully painted on multiple glass sheets in oils with fingertips and then photographed. The technique is called '"revived painting"
" The story about the first love of the sixteen-year-old boy Anton. He is torn apart by his feelings for a pure and gentle girl and a femme fatale. Anton is not sure which one is the right one and his faltering steps mix up with the romantic craving for purity and heroism
The story goes through various relationships. Anton dreams of his beloved ones, argues with his cynic friend or witnesses unfaithfulness and murder in his neighborhood. The boy's own aristocratic family is another source of tension because of class bias — Pasha, one of the Anton's beloved girls, is just a maid in their home. Serafima, the other woman who fires his imagination, has a bad reputation but the young protagonist is happily unaware of it. Every time Anton touches or stares at one of the girls he sees himself in a mythological plot of rescuing her or dives deep in the imaginary sea of emotions. After a series of shy looks, presented snowdrops, secret letters or feverish kisses through the fence the story comes to an unfortunate end. Anton suddenly experiences a mental breakdown when he is disappointed by Serafima's devilish nature. Then Pasha becomes a nun in a monastery to pray for his recovery. At the very end, the young boy wakes up a man who has lost his first love."
Here is three parts with some english subtitles:
"My Love" is 27 minutes long, but it took more than three years to complete. This film is truly handmade and beautifully painted on multiple glass sheets in oils with fingertips and then photographed. The technique is called '"revived painting"
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Illustration Friday - "Moon Flowers"
I came across a beautiful haiku vine flowers open
white in dusk
the moon unfurls
the moon unfurls
by Anna Holley (English tanka and haiku writer) from her book "White Crow Haiku" Aha poetry.com
And here's my first Illustration Friday post for this week, for the topic "Open":)
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