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A. De Mey

@dauwdrupje

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opera, queer history & decorative arts
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Interior drawing of a scene from Vittorio de Sica's 1970 film Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini. A very complex room to draw, being all shades and strange structures...

#ilgiardinodeifinzicontini #vittoriodesica #setdesign #interiordrawing #interiorportraits by @dauwdrupje

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Set design for Luchino Visconti's 1974 film Conversation Piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno).

While the film's main character (the Professor, played by Burt Lancaster) still lives in this room in the narrative present, this shot suggests the contrast with a non-specified past, when he used to live there with his wife. Especially the pink touches convey the feminine touch.

#luchinovisconti #conversationpiece #setdesign #interiordrawing #gruppodifamigliainuninterno by @dauwdrupje

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9 days ago

Another interior scene from Luchino Visconti's 1974 film 'Conversation Piece', with here Helmut Berger talking louchely with Stefano Patrizi.
#luchinovisconti #conversationpiece #helmutberger #interiordrawing #setdesign by @dauwdrupje

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12 days ago

Ludwig Berger and Burt Lancaster in Luchino Visconti's film Conversation Piece. While this image may suggest a more romantic relationship developing between the characters, the narrative actually focuses on how a solitary intellectual (loosely based on literature historian, collector and superb author Mario Praz) comes to terms with his noisy, obtrusive neighbours. But some queer tension is visible nevertheless - the filmmaker being Visconti after all!

#conversationpiece #luchinovisconti #helmutberger #burtlancaster #interiordrawing by @dauwdrupje

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15 days ago

Le comte d'Orgel (embodied with flair by actor Jean-Claude Brialy) in Marc Allegret's 1970 film Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. The real star of the film is, of course, Charles de Beisteguis Château de Groussay. A view of la Grande Bibliothèque can be seen here.

#lebalducomtedorgel #chateaudegroussay #marcallegret #jeanclaudebrialy #interiordrawing by @dauwdrupje

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Interior view from Marc Allegret's 1970 film 'Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel', showing the remarkable bedroom 'la rotonde' in Charles de Beisteguis Château de Groussay. In the 1940s, de Beistegui famously commissioned French-Russian artist Alexandre Serebriakoff to capture his interiors in a series of watercolours. In 1969, when de Beisteguis health had declined to the point that he could barely leave his room, he invited filmmaker Marc Allegret to capture his beloved château in a film. It is a touching experience to see the characters moving around in a place one knows so well from those marvelous watercolours, photographs and descriptions.

#chateaudegroussay #marcallegret #charlesdebeistegui #alexandreserebriakoff #interiordrawing by @dauwdrupje

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24 days ago

Interior view from Marc Allegret's 1970 film Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel, after the eponymous book by Raymond Radiguet. The film offers, apart from an amusing narrative, some exclusive views of Charles de Beisteguis Château de Groussay, amongst which this beautiful room. Actor Bruno Garcin, seen here, plays main character Francois.

#lebalducomtedorgel #chateaudegroussay #marcallegret #brunogarcin #interiordrawing by @dauwdrupje

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a month ago

Some pieces from my grandmother's collection of small ducks.

#ducks #drawing #nostalgia #bricabrac by @dauwdrupje

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a month ago

One of the most poignant moments in Verdi's Don Carlo is the monologue of the king, 'Ella giammai m'amo', here brilliantly embodied by bass @michelepertusi .

The lonely king laments that his wife never loved him and that he will never be able to find rest in sleep.

#doncarlo #giuseppeverdi #operadrawing #michelepertusi #bassaria by @dauwdrupje

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2 months ago

Portrait of French fashion designer Christian Dior (1905-1957). Since Dior doesn't need an introduction - I suppose everyone knows his famous afterwar 'New Look' which profoundly changed the world of fashion -, I will focus a bit on his personality here.

Dior was an intensely private person (partly because of his homosexuality, with which he struggled for a great part of his life) and is described to be very polite and considerate. Passionate about modern art, he opened, in 1929, an art gallery together with his friends Jacques Bonjean and Pierre Colle. In this gallery Bonjean, Paris made the acquaintance of the works of surrealists such as Dali, as well as neo-romantics such as Tchelitchev, Berman and Bérard. (Dior's lifelong friendship with Christian Bérard is beautifully and poetically described in @laurencebenaim 's 'Christian Dior - Christian Bérard: A Cheerful Melancholy'.)

Dior's nostalgia for his precious childhood home motivated many of his designs and personal preferences. In a time when the austerity of Chanel and the modernism of le Corbusier and Jean-Michel Frank made done with all so-called 'sentimental' bows and frulls, Dior initially felt ashamed of his longing for Louis XVI-elegance. Together with many creative people around him, he finally appropriated a style of tempered elegance in which he could re-envisage his lost childhood world, of which we still can dream.

#christiandior #queerartist #fashiondesigner #christianbérard #neoromantic by @dauwdrupje

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Portrait of French architect and interior decorator Emilio Terry (1890-1969). Terry was born in Paris into a Cuban family of considerable wealth, which enabled him to construct his life more or less according to his own fancies, but luckily did not temper his creative energy.

Terry was an autodidact who was greatly inspired by Palladio's classical designs, as well as by Piranesi's fantastical imaginations; combining both, Terry developed a unique style which is characterized by both a purity of forms (in this close to his good friend Jean-Michel Frank) and by exuberant, baroque and whimsical structures (a style which Terry himself named 'Louis XVII'). He had a strong affinity with the so-called 'neo-romantics' such as Christian Bérard, Pavel Tchelitchew and Eugène Berman, as well as with certain aspects of surrealism (both Bérard and Salvador Dali have made portraits of Terry).

Terry had a dreamy disposition and was, as describes @patrick.mauries.2 in his brilliant study on Terry's good friend and colleague Alexandre Serebriakoff, ironical and youthful in his enthousiasms, soft-voiced and good-humoured. He was extremely absent-minded and could often not recall what brought him to specific places or occasions, much to the amusement of his friends.

His particular style of designs, as well as his priviliged upbringing and background, enabled an intense and long-lived creative friendship with tastemaker Charles de Beistegui. The reimagining and intense creative expansion of de Beistegui's Château de Groussay was one of Terry's largest and most long-lived artistic projects.

Terry was discreetly but openly gay, as were many of his friends in this hotbed of creativity that was France in the interwar and post-war years.
#emilioterry #queerartist #serebriakoff #debeistegui #stylelouisxvii by @dauwdrupje

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This absolutely gorgeous performance of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece Eugene Onegin (directed by Ralph Phiennes) is still available to watch on @francetvculture ! Here, Onegin (@borispinkhasovich ) and Lenski (@bogdan_volkov_tenor ) just before their fatal duel takes place. Such intensity in psychology and music - a must-watch for those who haven't been in the luck to see and hear them in Paris!
#opera #operadrawing #tchaikovsky
#eugenonegin #ralphphiennes by @dauwdrupje

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