what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.
Charles Bukowski (via briewiththehair)
He disappeared into complete silence. 1947
A collection of nine engravings by Louise Bourgeois
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” — Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
Book Carving by Guy Laramee
Takehisa Yumeji 竹久夢二 (1884-1934), was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement which combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga. During the height of his popularity he was called the “modern Utamaro” and the Japanese “Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch”. His prints epitomized the relationship between popular art and the woodblock.1
He is the printmaker “who best exemplifies the Taisho era.”2
1Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints - The Early Years, Helen Merritt, University of Hawaii Press, 1998, p.23.
2 The Japanese Print: A Historical Guide, Hugo Munsterberg, Weatherhill, Inc., 1982, p. 160.
Charulata চারুলতা / The Lonely Wife (1964)
The context is suggested by important details. The opening sequence is a piece of cinematic poetry. We see the young wife Charulata moving from one window to another in her house. She observes the activities of the outside world through the window blinds using opera glasses. She is like a caged bird in her mansion. We sense her curiosity and desire to know the outside world.
“Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands.” (1976) Learn more → http://sfmoma.me/uZwI9a
Self portrait, Broadway, New York, 1950 by Eve Arnold
