Your hosts encounter the 1960 "erotic horror" film ET MOURIR DE PLAISIR (LE SANG ET LA ROSE) aka AND DIE OF PLEASURE (BLOOD AND ROSES) from director Roger Vadim! But where's the horror? More importantly, where's the eroticism??
Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 34:02; Discussion 44:20; Ranking 1:10:42
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I do not look for, I find!
The Mystery of Picasso (Le mystère Picasso), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1956)
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Impressionist paintings by Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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"The Greenes marveled at her peculiar tastes and realized that their pinup girl was really an Old Soul. She zeroed in on their records of Bach, Mozart, and Shostakovich, and pored over their books on Renaissance art. "The feelings she had about old, old paintings," mused Milton, "Michelangelo, Rubens, Van Dyck -- that period. Not Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, or Picasso. It was the old ones she liked. I have a print downstairs she gave me of a head that looks like it came from the Michelangelo period. She bought it at an auction. There are certain old things that she heard about and liked, and she went after them personally."
- Elizabeth Winder, Marilyn in Manhattan. Her Year of Joy
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Above: Claude Monet, Bain à la Grenouillère, 1869
Below: August Renoir, La Grenouillère, 1869
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Le petit peintre (Claude Renoir)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
oil on canvas, 1907
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The Book of the Rose
Laura Cerwinske
Designed by Jean-Claude Suarès
Thames & Hudson, New York/London 1992, 160 pages, 24x24cm, ISBN 9780 500 015 353
euro 25,00
No other flower has as legendary a history. The rose's dramatic combination of beauty and fragrance has made it a universal obsession, a symbol of spiritual love and physical passion praised in poetry, glorified in art, and venerated in every culture and religion.
The Book of the Rose is an exquisite devotion to the flower's ravishing and sometimes audacious presence throughout the centuries. It follows the cultivation of the rose from Persian and Indian gardens to medieval cloisters; from the War of the Roses to the Russian Court of Catherine the Great and the breathtaking gardens of the Empress Josephine. The rich selection of illustrations includes delicate portraits of Indian men and women presenting roses to their lovers, illuminated manuscripts of medieval rose blooms, and paintings that celebrate the rose's beauty - and its erotic intimations - by artists such as Redouté, Fragonard, Renoir, van Gogh, Fantin-Latour, and Beardsley.
The Book of the Rose also explores the rose motif in jewelry, porcelain and fabric, on furniture and in fashion, from the textiles of William Morris to the contemporary designs of Ungaro. In addition, a portfolio of glorious rooms illustrates the wide variety of rose themes in interior design.
For anyone who has ever grown a rose, given or received a rose, worn a rose pattern or scent, here is a lavish tribute to the world's most celebrated flower.
16/03/24
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I could only put 9 names here so I tried not to include neo-impressionist and post-impressionist artists here.
More polls about art (Van Gogh paintings, Monet paintings...), indie comics, literature etc on my pinned post.
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