RITA LEE JONES (1947 - 2023)
Epitáfio: Ela nunca foi um bom exemplo, mas era gente boa.
Descanse em paz, rainha!
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Norman Lindsay - Rita Lee (1938-1942)
The act that the figure of Rita looms large in the oeuvre of Norman Lindsay is no small endorsement, given that the artist worked with approximately 130 models during his highly productive period of the 1930s and 1940s.
Writing to his biographer, Norman Hetherington, Lindsay stated that during ‘the late thirties, when all the uproar of the twenties had died down, I had the best time of my life. The press left me alone when I ceased to be news. I had no exhibitions and sold work through the dealers…’
It was during this period that the artist was introduced to Rita Lee, a statuesque Pre-Raphaelite beauty of Spanish and Chinese parentage, whom Lindsay was to feature in a diverse selection of paintings, ranging from theatrical creations such as Crete 1940 to more decorous examples including Rita of the Nineties 1942.
‘One girl, named Rita, that I painted many times during my attack on oils, was the only one I got results from. She was a quiet, simple creature, very reticent, but she always expressed the emotion of any pose I put her in.’
Lindsay valued not only Rita’s versatility, but also (to borrow a phrase from Arthur Conan Doyle) her ‘grand gift of silence’, stating that ‘She was not a talker. She’d sit aloof and reticent behind her mask. She was a perfect model for oil painting,’ her reticence being ‘…one of her best assets. Chattering models are a nuisance.’
Whether the success of their working relationship was due to the model’s striking looks, her capacity to convey emotion or her ability to let the artist focus on the task at hand (or a combination of all three), as the artist’s granddaughter Helen Glad has noted, ‘Norman Lindsay never did a bad painting of Rita, which is why they are worth so much more than the others.’ (source)
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“Quando eu morrer, posso imaginar as palavras de carinho de quem me detesta. Algumas rádios tocarão minhas músicas sem cobrar jabá, colegas dirão que farei falta no mundo da música, quem sabe até deem meu nome para uma rua sem saída. Os fãs, esses sinceros, empunharão capas dos meus discos e entoarão "Ovelha negra", as tvs já devem ter na manga um resumo da minha trajetória para exibir no telejornal do dia e uma notinha no obituário de algumas revistas há de sair. Nas redes virtuais, alguns dirão: "Ué, pensei que a véia já tivesse morrido, kkk". Nenhum político se atreverá a comparecer ao meu velório, uma vez que nunca compareci ao palanque de nenhum deles e me levantaria do caixão para vaiá-los. Enquanto isso, estarei eu de alma presente no céu tocando minha autoharp e cantando para Deus: "Thank you Lord, finally sedated".
Epitáfio: Ela nunca foi um bom exemplo, mas era gente boa.”
Profecia (Rita Lee)
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Rita Lee no programa Fantástico, Rede Globo (2003) 🖤
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David Bowie and Rita Lee, 1990.
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Freda Robertshaw - Rita Lee (1937)
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