Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
The Paris Review accepts unsolicited submissions of prose in February, June, and October and unsolicited submissions of poetry in January, April, July, and October.Submissions are accepted via Submittable until we reach capacity, as well as by mail (see the instructions below).. All submissions must be in English and must be previously unpublished. Translations are …
A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
Dec 18, 2019 · On the model stand, I could take a graceful dancer’s stance, like one of the Three Graces in this Roman replica of a Hellenistic statue, perhaps draping my arm over a prop, like an unattended easel. Or maybe crouch low to the ground, my body twisted, like Aphrodite coyly adjusting her hair, in a typical depiction of the goddess.. Following the Classical period’s …
What We Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
Mar 26, 2018 · From Neruda and others we can see how the act of expressing ourselves, and the act of hearing, are core components of resistance—and of poetry’s unique, enduring power. Mark Eisner is the author of Neruda: The Poets Calling. He conceived, edited, and was one of the principle translators of The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems.
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
Dec 8, 2020 · Intact, Sappho’s poems would be as alien to us as the once gaudily painted classical sculptures. In total, all the poems and fragments that have reached us, as brief, mutilated, and devoid of context as they are, add up to no more than six hundred lines. It has been calculated that around 7 percent of Sappho’s work has survived.
Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death
May 2, 2018 · Scheele’s green also made its way onto human bodies in the form of dresses, waistcoats, shoes, gloves, and trousers. Empress Eugenie, the most notable it girl of her time, adored green—she thought it brought out the gold in her hair, and even if this wasn’t true, the gold dust she sprinkled on her hairline certainly helped.
The Paris Review - The Original ‘Little Mermaid’
Mar 16, 2018 · Enter Kay Nielsen. Nielsen was born in the late 1800s in Copenhagen, and so straddled the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. During the the Golden Age of Illustration, Nielsen and other artists, such as Arthur Rackham and Gustave Doré, found themselves illustrating expensive, exquisite gift books of fairy-tale stories.Nielsen took a Nordic coolness …
How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art
Nov 9, 2017 · There are some who see Picasso’s treatment of women in a relatively positive light: the women in his life enriched his art and, in turn, he depicted them in loving portraiture and artistic allegory. The classic example given for Picasso’s respectful relationship with women is his friendship with Gertrude Stein, which Stein fondly recounted ...
Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence
Nov 24, 2020 · It was just such a beautiful color, and so accessible. It was hard for painters to resist, even when they knew it would render their works mortal. To use verdigris was to accept that your lovingly rendered scene would one day sour. The bright cloaks would turn dark, the soft grass would fade, the foliage turn.
The Paris Review - A Brief History of Ultramarine—The World’s …
Jun 8, 2015 · Ultramarine: the quality of the shade is embodied in its name. This is the superlative blue, the end-all blue, the blue to which all other hues quietly aspire. The name means “beyond the sea”—a dreamy ode to its distant origins, as romantic as it is imprecise. Derived from the lapis lazuli stone, the pigment was considered more precious ...