#L'après-midi d'un faune

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Vaslav Nijinsky

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Et notre sang, épris de qui le va saisir, Coule pour tout l'essaim éternel du désir.

Stéphane Mallarmé - L'Après-Midi d'un Faune

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Charlie Chaplin's homage to dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and his most famous ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune or The Afternoon of the Faun.

Nijinsky visited the set of "Easy Street" in 1916 (standing to Charlie's right)

Dream sequence from Sunnyside, 1919.

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Dominique Brun d'après Nijinsky, "L'après-midi d'un faune"

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A fantastic interpretation!

(also, if you're not familiar with this song but enjoy the softest songs and themes from the oldest Star Wars and want to go more into classical music/romantic music/impressionism, this one is a good bridge!)

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - March 22nd, 1984 - Queen Story!

London, UK - Queen videoed "I Want To Break Free"

The video for this song parodies a popular British television soap, Coronation Street. The opening sequence features all the band members in drag (Mercury as a housewife, Deacon as grandmother, Taylor as a schoolgirl, and May as a housewife). This confused many people who didn't catch the reference. Brian May was asked in an interview with Q magazine March 2011 whether each band member's character in the video was an accurate reflection of their personalities? He replied: "Of Course! Everybody thinks that was Freddie's idea because it looks like something that he would love to do but it actually came from Roger's girlfriend at the time, strangely enough. It was her idea to pastiche the Coronation Street women."

Location Docklands Limehouse Studio

Directed by David Mallet, with hundreds of fan club members dressed as miners as film extras

Freddie Mercury was all set to shave off his trademark mustache, but director David Mallet put a stop to it: "I said, 'No, the one thing you musn't do, the funny thing is that your mustache is there and you're in drag!' To this day, when he comes around the corner with that hoover I laugh." In this video Mercury is surrounded by the Royal Ballet in a nod to the French ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune and its clean-shaven Russian star Vaslav Nijinsky.

This song became an anthem for the ANC in South Africa in the late '80s when Nelson Mandela was still in jail and the white government's apartheid policies were still in place.

(➡️ source: songfacts.com)

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Download FREE hi-res art from the Getty Museum!

The Getty Museum now allows you to download and edit and do whatever you want with 88,000 high-resolution artworks. They're FREE for ANY PURPOSE (under Creative Commons Zero)...There are NO legal restrictions!

Go to getty.edu./art/collection

click the "Open Content" filter

You can search by artist name, medium, keyword etc.

A majority of the work is American and European but there are some ancient and contemporary works from all over the world, too.

How am I just hearing about this?! Adding this bookmark file of "Free Images"...

Here are just a few of the gems I found...

Irises 1889 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 - 1890)

L'Après midi [sic] d'un Faune (Nijinsky) 1912 Léon Bakst (Russian, 1866 - 1924)

Jeanne (Spring) 1881 Édouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

Young Italian Woman at a Table about 1895–1900 Paul Cézanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

The Echo 1868 Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

I mean, I could spend hours just searching for stuff...

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A SON OF THE GOD FAUNUS

So... since it was my off-day today, I couldn't help but go a little further with my drawing of the faun from earlier...

... and by 'a little further', I mean a full gouache paint-over and white ink highlighting. :3

By the way, Claude Debussy's 'Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun' (original title: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune) is a pretty beautiful piece of music to listen to while painting/working.

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Dr. Bashir as Nijinsky's Faun

First Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fanart! I've been getting more interested again in Star Trek lately and wanted to make a drawing related to that.

Context + details under the cut + alt version

There are quite a few "jokes" circulating in the Trek fandom about Dr. Julian Bashir being a ballet fan, or even a ballet dancer himself, because of his ex-girlfriend being a ballerina, so I got inspired by that and... drew him as the faun from the ballet "Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune" by Vaslav Nijinsky, based on the piece of the same title by Claude Debussy (which again, was based on the poem "L'Après midi d'un faune" by Stéphane Mallarmé).

The costume was, obviously, heavily based on the original from the ballet by Léon Bakst, although I made some adaptations to make it look more futuristic (? though this was hard because the original attire itself is already pretty modern), and also make sure Bashir was recognizable (I replaced the headpiece that maintained the horns with a rose crown, which I guess isn't fully off tracks either because Léon Bakst did design a costume made of roses for another ballet!)

And no, this isn't "Vulcanface", that's the actual makeup of the faun in the ballet haha.

I dedicate this drawing to my friend @bashircore! Dr. Bashir is his favorite Star Trek character.

The veil Julian is holding is Elim Garak's, by the way. :)

Some close-ups:

Alternative version (with a background and some minor adjustments):

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'Autumn Fire' (1931). A film poem by Herman G. Weinberg

Cast: Erna Bergman, Willy Hildebrand

(Set to Claude Debussy's 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' and Maurice Ravel's 'Daphnis et Chloé')

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echoes but it’s from the perspective of happy people having a lovely sunny day out at sea while pink floyd are deep below witnessing the horrors

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Léon Bakst, L'Après midi [sic] d'un Faune (Nijinsky), 1912 x

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According to Facebook Memories, nine years ago today I was at the symphony seeing Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, and now I’m learning a page of one of Debussy’s préludes on piano myself, and life is pretty amazing, that’s all

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L'Après-midi d'un Faune

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current driving playlist

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead --- "Heart in the Hand of the Matter"; "Days of Being Wild"; "Relative Ways"

Afrorack --- "Rev" and "Desert"

Aho Ssan --- "Tetsuo II"

Alberich --- "Chilsong Chamber"

Alice Glass --- "Remains"

Andy Stott --- Luxury Problems

Annabelle Playe --- Geyser

Ansome --- Selections from Hounds of the Harbor

Arvo Part --- Tabula Rasa mvmt 1, Magnificat for Choir, Annum per Annum for Organ

Austra --- Selections from Feel It Break

Autechre --- Selections from Exai

Author & Punisher --- Selections from Krüller

Bach --- Selections from the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin; Selections from the Well-Tempered Clavier

Beethoven --- Kreutzer Sonata mvmt 1; Symphony 9; Grosse Fuge; Selections from String Quartets opp 127, 130, and 131

Blanck Mass --- "Hush Money"

Bolis Pupul --- "Frogs" and "Ma Tau Wai Road"

Candy Claws --- Selections from Ceres and Calypso in the Deep Time

Carter Tutti Void --- Triumvirate

Chastity --- "Sun Poisoning" and "Strife"

Cherry Glazerr --- I Don't Want You Anymore

CHVRCHES --- "Lies"; "Recover"; "Clearest Blue"

Clark --- "Slap Drones"

Closet Witch --- "Personal Machu Picchu"; "Daylilies"; "Dogs Running"

Cloud Rat --- Do Not Let Me Off the Cliff: Deluxe Edition and "Luminescent Cellar"

Coheed and Cambria --- "A Favor House Atlantic"; "The Afterman"; "Welcome Home"; "Key Entity Extration III: Vic the Butcher"; "The Suffering"

Connesson --- Selections from Pour Sortir au Jour

Cremation Lily --- "I Need to Stop Blaming Myself"

Debby Friday --- Good Luck

Debussy --- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Diana Damrau --- "Der Hölle Rache"

Divide and Dissolve --- "We Are Really Worried About You"

Dobrinka Tabakova --- String Paths

Dolor --- "Pull Me In"

Eduardo Egüez --- Misa Criolla mvmt 2 and 3

Elbow --- "Grounds for Divorce"

Elusin --- Selections from Synfuels

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou --- "Magickal Cost"; "Out of Existence"; "Orphan Limbs"

Ensemble La Chimera --- "Tonada El Diamante"; "En Aquel Amor"

Fever Ray --- "Kandy"; "Looking for a Ghost"; "Tapping Fingers"; "If I Had A Heart"; "Keep the Streets Empty for Me"

Giles Corey --- "No One Is Ever Going To Want Me"

glass beach --- Selections from plastic death

Gris --- Il était une forêt

HEALTH --- Selections from RAT WARS; "SLAVES OF FEAR"

Holy Fawn --- "Yawning"

IAMX --- "Insomnia"; "Surrender"; "Spit It Out"

Ictus --- Imperivm; Hambrientos De Un Sol Distinto; "Sed de Venganza"

Jai Paul --- "BTSTU (Edit)"; "Jasmine"

Joanna Newsom --- "The Things I Say"

Keygen Church --- Nel Nome Del Codice; "S E V E R K E T O R"

Kite --- "Hills"

KLANGPHONICS --- "Shapes in the Spray"

Lauren Bousfield --- "Another World is Possible - Presented by US Bank"

Lingua Ignota --- Selections from Sinner Get Ready; "Spite Alone Holds Me Aloft"; "All Bitches Die (Bitches All Die Here)"; "May Failure Be Your Noose"

Lone Pilgrim --- The World Is Not My Home

Lorn --- "Chhurch"

Lorn & Dolor --- Zero Bounce

Low --- "More"

LSDXOXO --- "Sick Bitch"

M. Lamar --- Negrogothic and Funeral Doom Spiritual

M.I.A. --- Selections from Kala

Mandy, Indiana --- Selections from i've seen a way

Marina & the Diamonds --- "Numb"

Menace Ruine --- The Die is Cast; Selections from Nekyia, Venus Armata, and Alight in Ashes

mewithoutYou --- Selections from Brother, Sister; "[dormouse sights]"; "Birnam Wood"; "Julia"

Millie & Andrea --- Drop the Vowels

Mitski --- "I Don't Smoke"; "Love Me More"; "Love Me More (Clark Remix)"; "Townie"; "My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars"

Model/Actriz --- Dogsbody; "Damocles"; "Suntan"; "Amaranth (mmph remix)"

Oneohtrix Point Never --- "No Good"; "Sticky Drama"

Paula Temple --- Edge of Everything and Deathvox EP

Perfume Genius --- "Describe (A. G. Cook Remix)"

Pictureplane --- "Blade Addict (Crimson Mist)"

Powell --- "So We Went Electric"

Queens of the Stone Age --- "My God Is the Sun"; "If I Had a Tail"

R.E.M. --- Selections from Automatic for the People and Murmur

Rameau --- Selections from Hippolyte et Aricie

Renée Fleming --- "Ich ging zu ihm"

Respighi --- Concerto Gregoriano mvmt 3; "Gagliarda" and "Siciliana" from Ancient Airs and Dances; Violin Sonata in B Minor mvmt 2

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter --- Selections from SAVED!

Rezz --- Selections from CAN YOU SEE ME?; "Let Me In"

Rossini --- Selections from Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Run The Jewels --- Selections from Run the Jewels 2 and RTJ 4

Sällskapet --- "Die Zeit Vergeht"

Sarasate --- "Navarra"

Schnittke --- Concerto for Choir; "Credo" from the Requiem; Concerto Grosso 2 mvmt 1

Schubert --- Death and the Maiden Movements 1, 2 and 4; Symphony 8 Movement 1

Scriabin --- Piano Sonatas 5, 6, 7, and 9

seventh stitch --- Selections from murmuring chasms of nostalgia

Sharon Van Etten --- "Hands"

Sia --- "Chandelier"

Simon & Garfunkel --- "My Little Town"

Slowdive --- "Shanty"; "Prayer Remembered"; "The Slab"

Sprain --- Selections from The Lamb as Effigy

Stravinsky --- Selections from The Rake's Progress and Petrushka

The Comet is Coming --- "Angel of Darkness"; "The Hammer"

The Hormones --- "孤独的海"; "航夜"

The Killers --- "Sam's Town"; "Spaceman"

The Knife --- "Silent Shout"; "Marble House"; "Like a Pen"; "Full of Fire"

The Visit --- Through Darkness Into Light

This Thing Called Dying --- "Menneske"; "The Art of Looking the Other Way"

Thou --- Umbilical; Selections from Inconsolable

Torres --- Selections from What an enormous room and Silver Tongue

TR/ST --- "Shoom"

Tzafu --- Selections from Impermanence

Tzusing --- Selections from 東方不敗, A Name Out of Place Collected, and 绿帽 Green Hat

Vampire Weekend --- "Unbelievers"; "Hudson"; "Gen X Cops"; "Capricorn"

Wolf Parade --- Selections from At Mount Zoomer and Apologies to the Queen Mary

Wolves in the Throne Room --- "Initiation at Neudeg Alm"

Yellow Swans --- Left Behind; Out of Practice I; Out of Practice II

Young Galaxy --- "Hard To Tell"; "In Fire"

Ysaye --- Sonata 1 for solo violin mvmt 2, 3, and 4; Sonatas 2, 4, 5, and 6 for solo violin