#yadwigha

[petaltexturedskies]

Hearing flutes, you dreamed yourself away in the moon's eye

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems, "Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies" A Sestina for the Douanier, written 27 March 1958

[faccaldo]

Le Rêve (1910) , Le Douanier, Henri Rousseau

Yadwigha dans un beau rêve S'étant endormie doucement Entendait les sons d'une musette Dont jouait un charmeur bien pensant. Pendant que la lune reflète Sur les fleuves [ou fleurs] les arbres verdoyants, Les fauves serpents prêtent l'oreille Aux airs gais de l'instrument.

(Henri Rousseau)

[lerevemusic]

Album Le Rêve

《夢境》是一部由貓阿諾 （Arnaud Lechat）、馬克．范．湯可鄰 （Mark Van Tongeren）和詹雅淳共同創作的音樂與舞蹈表演，靈感來 自法國後印象派畫家亨利．盧梭（Henri Rousseau）的畫作《夢境》（ 英文: The Dream; 法文: Le Rêve）。音樂帶領我們深入這幅描繪一位女 子在伊甸園裡，被野獸和神秘音樂家環繞的畫作中。 女子夢中的叢林發生了什麼事？她指向音樂家，是否在訴說，藝 術是唯一足夠強大的力量，足以保護我們遺失的天堂免受惡蛇的侵擾 ？「而在我們的夢境叢林中發生了什麼？」這是表演者提出的疑問。

“Le Rêve” (English: the dream) is a musical and dance performance created by Arnaud Lechat, Mark Van Tongeren and Zhan Ya Chun inspired by the painting "Le rêve" by Post-Impressionist French painter Henri Rousseau. The music invites us to dive into the painting which represents Yadwigha in the Garden of Eden, surrounded by wild animals and a mysterious musician. Yadwigha on the red couch takes us deep into her unconscious.

What happens in the jungle of her dream? The dreamer woman points to the musician, isn’t this a way of telling us that art is the only force powerful enough to preserve the lost paradise from the evil snake?

[byronsmuse]

Hearing flutes, you Dreamed yourself away in the moon's eye To a beryl jungle, and dreamed that bright moon-lilies Nodded their petaled heads around your couch. And that, Rousseau told the critics, was why the couch Accompanied you. So they nodded at the couch with the moon And the snakecharmer's song and the gigantic lilies, Marvelingly numbered the many shades of green.

Sylvia Plath, Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies

[commonplaceinacommonplace]

wednesday, february 14th, 2024 // #11

"But to a friend, in private, Rousseau confessed his eye So possessed by the glowing red of the couch which you,

Yadwigha, pose on, that he put you on the couch To feed his eye with red, such red! under the moon, In the midst of all that green and those great lilies!"

Plath, Sylvia. “Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies”. The Collected Poems. Harper, 2008. pp. 85-86.

[summerintheshadows]

The Dream (French: Le Rêve; occasionally also known as Le Songe or Rêve exotique) is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. His last completed work, it was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 18 March to 1 May 1910, a few months before his death on 2 September 1910.

Yadwigha dans un beau rêve

S'étant endormie doucement

Entendait les sons d'une musette

Dont jouait un charmeur bien pensant.

Pendant que la lune reflète

Sur les fleuves [or fleurs], les arbres verdoyants,

Les fauves serpents prêtent l'oreille

Aux airs gais de l'instrument.

It was eventually donated to the Museum of Modern Art in New York to celebrate the Museum's 25th anniversary. It remains on display at MoMA.

[batgovernor]

Odd poem: Henri Rousseau, 'Inscription pour La Rêve'

Yadwigha dans un beau rêve S’étant endormie doucement Entendait les sons d’une musette Dont jouait un charmeur bien pensant. Pendant que la lune reflète Sur les fleuves [or fleurs], les arbres verdoyants, Les fauves serpents prêtent l’oreille Aux airs gais de l’instrument. Yadwigha in a beautiful dreamHaving fallen gently to sleepHeard the sounds of a reed instrumentPlayed by a well-intentioned…

[elijones94]

🐾🎨 Studies of a lioness and a mandrill based on paintings by Henri Rousseau

[durruti23]

Henri Rousseau - Le Rêve (The Dream) (1910)

Inscription pour La Rêve

Yadwigha dans un beau rêve

S'étant endormie doucement

Entendait les sons d'une musette

Dont jouait un charmeur bien pensant.

Pendant que la lune reflète

Sur les fleuves [or fleurs], les arbres verdoyants,

Les fauves serpents prêtent l'oreille

Aux airs gais de l'instrument.

Yadwigha in a beautiful dream

Having fallen gently to sleep

Heard the sounds of a reed instrument

Played by a well-intentioned [snake] charmer.

As the moon reflected

On the rivers [or flowers], the verdant trees,

The wild snakes lend an ear

To the joyous tunes of the instrument.

 https://www.moma.org

"The picture radiates beauty, that is indisputable”, Guillaume Apollinaire 

[tamsoj]

[...] Hearing flutes, you Dreamed yourself away in the moon’s eye

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems, “Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies,” A Sestina for the Douanier, written 27 March 1958

[justthishumanheart]

Henri Rousseau, The Dream

Yadwigha, the literalists once wondered how you Came to be lying on this baroque couch Upholstered in red velvet, under the eye Of uncaged tigers and a tropical moon, Set in intricate wilderness of green Heart-shaped leaves, like catalpa leaves, and lilies

Of monstrous size, like no well-bred lilies. It seems the consistent critics wanted you To choose between your world of jungle green And the fashionable monde of the red couch With its prim bric-à-brac, without a moon To turn you luminous, without the eye Of tigers to be stilled by your dark eye And body whiter than its frill of lilies: They'd have had yellow silk screening the moon, Leaves and lilies flattened to paper behind you Or, at most, to a mille-fleurs tapestry. But the couch Stood stubborn in it's jungle: red against green, Red against fifty variants of green, The couch glared out at the prosaic eye. So Rousseau, to explain why the red couch Persisted in the picture with the lilies, Tigers, snakes, and the snakecharmer and you, And birds of paradise, and the round moon, Described how you fell dreaming at full of moon On a red velvet couch within your green- Tessellared boudoir. Hearing flutes, you Dreamed yourself away in the moon's eye To a beryl jungle, and dreamed that bright moon-lilies Nodded their petaled heads around your couch. And that, Rousseau told the critics, was why the couch Accompanied you. So they nodded at the couch with the moon And the snakecharmer's song and the gigantic lilies, Marvelingly numbered the many shades of green. But to a friend, in private, Rousseau confessed his eye So possessed by the glowing red of the couch which you, Yadwigha, pose on, that he put you on the couch To feed his eye with red, such red! under the moon, In the midst of all that green and those great lilies!

—Sylvia Plath, Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies: A Sestina for the Douanier

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[xshayarsha]

You dreamed yourself away in the moon's eye to a beryl jungle, and dreamed that bright moon-lilies nodded their petaled heads around your couch.

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies.

[pestpruf]

Consider Rousseau’s Le Rêve (also known as Le Songe, or Rêve exotique).

Yadwigha dans un beau rêve S'étant endormie doucement Entendait les sons d'une musette Dont jouait un charmeur bien pensant. Pendant que la lune reflète Sur les fleurs, les arbres verdoyants, Les fauves serpents prêtent l'oreille Aux airs gais de l'instrument.