Charles Fourier an Utopian Socialist and the First Feminist?
Max Ernst painted by Leonora Carrington. Notice the white horse with icicles. A rocking horse which they had purchased together for their flat in Paris became a significant symbol in their paintings. See also L.C.'s self-portatrait in a previous posting.
Leonora Carrington was born in Lancashire today in 1927 thus she is NINETY -congratulations! An artist and writer, once part of the Surrealists in Paris, and later she moved to Mexico. The photo of Leonora and her cat is exquisite, they look completely alike. Miao!
Li Yuan-Chia born today in 1929 in Lushan Hsu, China and he died in 1994 in Carlisle. He was an artist, poet, curator, and archivist. He ran the LYC Museum in Banks, on the roman wall, in the North West of England for many years. An extraordinary man in many ways he was a pioneer.
Joe Meek born today in Newent, Gloucestershire in 1929. A legendary record producer and songwriter. His I Hear a New World was a watershed album.
Saul Bellow, christened Solomon, was born in Quebec and died today in Brookline, Mass. in 2005.He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. I love his laugh above!
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy born today in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He made 9 films with Katharine Hepburn.
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky born in 1932 in Zavrazhye in the former Soviet Union.
Poster for Nostalgia.
Andrei with his sister.
Andrei with his mother.
Polaroids by Andrei Tarkovsky who was constantly taking them.
Francesca Woodman born in 1958. A photographer using herself as subject long before it became "the norm". Her haunting photographs are always within me as is her suicide at a very young age. Her body of work has held its own over the decades.
Marlon Brando born today in 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He died at the age of 80 in Los Angeles. Some extraordinary films he made even more memorable as an actor:
Serge Gainsbourg born in 1928 in Paris. Chanteur and style icon. Gainsbourg, Belmondo and Delon epitomise the French Homme of a certain era. They have the je ne sais quoi...
Serge G. and Jane Birkin. I love the basket!
Serge Gainsbourg and Charlotte his daughter with Jane Birkin, she is also an actress.
Max Ernst born in Bruhl, Germany in 1891. He died in Paris on April 1 in 1976. He is buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. An artist associated with Dada and Surrealism, his alter ego-a bird called LopLop. He was also connected to some of the most extraordinary women of the time; Meret Oppenheim, Leonora Carrington, Peggy Guggenheim and Dorothea Tanning.
This is what friends are for. Dressing up and having fun.
The Virgin Mary spanking baby Jesus!
Max Ernst Chess set.
