Min senaste upptäckt är Anne Siems, utbildad i Berlin och verksam i Seattle.
Här följer ett axplock av hennes verk, men känn er fria att googla vidare, det finns många fler underbara målningar!
"Blanche tyckte illa om Broca. Hon ansåg att han i grunden betraktade henne som ett djur, vars skalle kunde mätas och vägas. Men hur snillrikt förstod ej denna unga flicka Blanche, spetsknypplerskan!, att försvara sig mot detta andliga förtryck!"
When a man is affected with sexual incapacity, he suffers from inhibitions and from irresolution. But when, in the female partner, her readiness to surrender herself to the male does not find its due fulfilment, the inevitable upshot will be irritability and lack of restraint with outbursts of excessive liveliness. By nature, Marie Antoinette was normal enough; a tender, womanly woman, foreordained to motherhood and the old, liberal scale, only waiting, one may suppose, to submit herself to a real man. (...) Her ill-starred destiny decreed that this creature of typically feminine sensibilities should enter into an abnormal union, and should be coupled with a man who was not fully a man.Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: A Portrait of an Average Woman, s. 26
| Illustration av operakostym från 1770-80-tal |
"Snow-balls have flown their Arcs, starr’d the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware, - the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking’d-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of various Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peel’d Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar, - the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax’d and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults."