1.07.2011

ARLEQUINO







HARLEQUIN

When we were little girls in Tunisia, we had  fabulous "headboards" in the huge bedroom I shared with 2 of my sisters: our mother commissioned an extremely talented artist friend of hers to paint Harlequins above each of our beds. We each had a different one somewhat like the one below. I have loved the figure and the pattern on his clothes ever since.

Cezanne

Jean Cocteau






This one by Jean Cocteau is totally different yet very recognizable.
Happenstance Theater
Sonia Delaunay
Dior
au revoir.





3 comments:

  1. Your mama must have been talented too!

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  2. Harlequins are such an inspiration: their colors, their mistery, their joy, their unique movements when they walk... I have a friend, Carola Trimano, who basis her art on the harlequins and their spirit. If you want to know a little bit of her work, go check it out: http://bonecoscoloridos.blogspot.com/2009/01/circenses-no-arco.html
    It's been a while since I follow your blog, and it brings me a lot of inspiration. Congratulations from Brasil!
    Helô

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  3. Thank You very much for the post! I adore harlequines! And I also want to share with You one of my favourite Russian painters, the modernist Constantine Somov, he drew a lot of harlequines!
    For instance: http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/3/22/41/22041331_Konstantin_Somov_1_ak.jpg
    http://www.russianavantgard.com/Artists/somov/somov_italiancomedy.jpg
    http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/img/850000/851504.jpg
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BVbcNcXrio4/TA95gZ4CMKI/AAAAAAAAAeA/P--N80H85-o/s1600/konstantin+somov+harlequin.JPG
    http://s40.radikal.ru/i088/0905/0b/77448084b68et.jpg

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