#Ernest Christophe

[weirdlookindog]

Ernest Christophe - La Danse Macabre, 1859

[philoursmars]

Il y a une petite quinzaine, je suis allé avec Julien et Katie, au Louvre-Lens pour une expo temporaire : “Animaux Fantastiques”. Une très belle expo ! Ici des sphinx (et des sphinges)

Gustave Moreau - "L'Egalité devant la Mort"

Tony Johannot, illustrateur pour le livre de Charles Nodier - "Smarra - ou - les Démons de la Nuit"

Ernest Christophe - "Le Baiser Suprême"

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[hiidenneiti]

The work by Ernest Christophe (1827-1892) entitled Le Baiser suprême (The Supreme Kiss or The Sphinx), marble, exhibited posthumously at the Salon of 1892, shows a young man in a terminal embrace with a sphinx or chimera.

[schizografia]

Sono in lei radunate le grazie fiorentine:

in un corpo che insieme è solido e flessuoso

stanno Eleganza e Forza, due sorelle divine.

E’ una donna mirabile, frutto miracoloso,

stupendamente salda, eppure assai leggera,

fatta per troneggiare sopra un letto sontuoso,

e d’un papa o d’un principe attizzare i piaceri.

– Vedi come il sorriso è fine e voluttuoso:

in quella fatuità trascorre dolce un’estasi,

nello sguardo un’ambigua e languida ironia,

un velo intorno al viso la seduzione desta,

ogni tratto ci dice con trionfante malia:

“La Voluttà mi chiama, l’Amore m’incorona”.

Vedi che forte fascino dona la gentilezza

a colei che di tanta maestà si corona.

Su, giriamole intorno, scrutiamo la bellezza.

O artificio blasfemo, sorprendente malizia!

E’ un mostro bicefalo questo corpo di luce

che riverbera un mondo di suprema delizia!

– No, è solo una maschera quel volto che seduce

e che una fine smorfia ora va rischiarando.

Ma osserva il volto vero com’è atrocemente

raggrinzito e com’è arrovesciato standosene

al riparo del primo artefatto sembiante.

Povera sovrumana bellezza, il tuo bel rivo

di lacrime nel cuore spaurito si riversa,

mi fa ebbro il tuo inganno, e l’anima s’abbevera

al flutto che il Dolore dalle pupille versa.

– Perché ora piange, lei, l’avvenente regina

che terrebbe ai suoi piedi l’umanità sperduta?

Quale oscuro male l’è al bel fianco spina?

– Insensato, lei piange proprio perché ha vissuto.

E perché vive. E quello che più e più deplora

e che tutta la scuote è il fatto che poi,

domani, è necessario, ahimé, vivere ancora,

domani, posdomani, e sempre: come noi!

Charles Baudelaire, La maschera

[scottguy]

I swear every perfect marble sculpture seems like an impossible miracle... and yet there it stands.

The Human comedy, La Comédie humaine (dit aussi Le Masque), 1876, Ernest Christophe (French, 1827-1892)

[andrew3garfield]

Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence OPPENHEIMER (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

[courtana]

JOSH HARTNETT as DR. ERNEST LAWRENCE OPPENHEIMER (2023), dir. Christopher Nolan

[lacontroller1991]

"Academics have rights too-" "It's not that. I have a group coming." "I'll sit in." "Not this one."

Oppenheimer (2023)

[lepetitdragonvert]

THE MOON MAIDEN’S SONG

Sleep ! Cast thy canopy

Over this sleeper’s brain,

Dim grow his memory,

When he wake again.

Love stays a summer night,

Till lights of morning come ;

Then takes her winged flight

Back to her starry home.

Sleep ! Yet thy days are mine ;

Love’s seal is over thee :

Far though my ways from thine,

Dim though thy memory.

Love stays a summer night,

Till lights of morning come ;

Then takes her winged flight

Back to her starry home.

Ernest Christopher Dowson

[lowlifesymptoms]

anyways, i saw oppenheimer, hmu if u like these boys

[danverssawyer]

Audio from Death Becomes Her The Musical of Megan Hilty as Madeline Ashton, Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp, and Christopher Sieber as Ernest Menville singing "Tell Me Ernest"

[pedroam-bang]

Oppenheimer (2023)

[yannis-boultadakis]

In 2021 I had the chance to work as a posing artist and animator on another beautiful feature Ernest et Célestine: Le Voyage en Charabie from directors Jean-Christophe Roger & Julien Chheng for Fost, Folivari and La Cachette studio, I uploaded some sequences below, enjoy ;)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

~ Eliot Daingerfield (1859–1932), The Moon Path, 1900

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Then said my voices:

'Wherefore strive or run, On dusty highways ever, a vain race? The long night cometh, starless, void of sun, What light shall serve thee like her golden face?'

For I had pondered on a rune of roses, And knew some secrets which the moon discloses.

~ Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900), Sapientia Lunae

[Guillaume Gris]

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Sound of Music (1965)

I was shocked to learn that The Sound of Music received mixed reviews upon its release in 1965. I can sort of understand someone criticizing the liberties it takes with the story it's based on (though of course, someone who does this should realize that real life is not particularly cinematic) but how can you not fall in love with this musical? Unabashedly sweet, it effortlessly charms you. This is exactly the kind of movie you’d love to watch on a miserable day when you’re sick. No matter how foul your mood is, it’ll lift your spirits.

In 1938 Austria, Maria (Julie Andrews, magnificent) studies to become a nun but doesn't fit in with her peers. She’s always humming a tune and constantly finds her spirit whisked away by music. To help her decide where she belongs, Maria is sent to help care for the seven children of Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). As the family bonds, everything seems blissful, until neighbouring Nazi Germany begins mobilizing its troops…

If you’ve never seen The Sound of Music before, you’ll feel a little foolish once it’s over. You haven't sat down with this movie, but you’ve heard several of the songs before, you’ve seen parodies of the most memorable scenes and you may have even seen clips out of context. It makes you go "Oh! That's from THIS movie!" There’s no way to forget My Favorite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going on Seventeen or So Long, Farewell and you won’t want to. Much credit belongs to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the stage musical but if that was all the movie had going for it, you could watch a stage version. What elevates this production is the cast. Julie Andrews, best known for her role in Mary Poppins is unsurprisingly excellent as Maria. What she does almost seems easy because - like the children she cares for - you instantly fall for her. She’s so sweet, gentle and kind it’s hard to imagine even the iciest hearts - like the one beating inside Captain von Trapp - staying cold in her presence. What’s surprising is Christopher Plummer. Turns out, he can sing. I don’t know if you’d be as excited at the idea of them becoming romantically entangled if the children weren’t there, but that’s the point. If Maria does fall in love, it won’t be with just the father, it will be with the family.

The film’s best scenes often involve dance numbers. Not the big kind of dances that suddenly has everyone in the country expertly coordinated; playful, childlike dances as the young Von Trapps perform for a crowd or tender scenes between two people who tell us how they feel through lyrics and body language. Though the children are only given limited screen time and character development, they all get enough for you to understand them as people. It helps that the young actors portraying Liesl, Louisa, Friedrich, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta and Gretl are terrific.

One of my favorite things about The Sound of Music is that while it’s light, happy, romantic and carefree - maybe even corny - it has this tiny bit of tension and a smidge of fear in it too. As we approach the second act, a looming shadow in the distance keeps you wondering. When Germany annexes Austria, it’s a cold bucket of reality dumped onto this musical. Things were so sweet and light before; surely this means the family will be alright? You’re pretty sure they will be, but there’s a part of you that doubts. It’s just enough to give this movie stakes and compels you to keep watching. As nice as the film is, it might’ve been too much without that little bit of vinegar.

The Sound of Music has melted the ice around my heart and rekindled my appetite for musicals. It's the kind of picture that introduces itself to you by handing you a bouquet. You fall in love with the songs, the story and the dance numbers too. There's even a puppet show so darling it'll make your every worry and fear vanish. I can't wait to see it again. (December 13, 2023)

[moonwaterstories]

Winnie the Pooh quotes

Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?” Pooh: “You don’t spell it… you feel it.”

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the nicest things you can be.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

“We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?” asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered.

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know until later?

If it’s not Here, that means it’s out There.

If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget—you just weren’t remembering.

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

I wonder how many wishes a star can give.

Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.

Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It's today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.

-Alan Alexander Milne: Winnie the Pooh -illustartions: Ernest H. Shepard