“To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Govern Flinck, Dutch, 1615-1660
The Expulsion of Hagar, c. 1640-’42
Oil on canvas, 110.7 x 138.8 cm
Michal Barat Koren
Hagar
2014,
C-Print
Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound, 1945, screenplay by Angus MacPhail, Ben Hecht.
Stuart Davis, Lucky Strike, 1924. Oil on paperboard, 18″x24″
Irene Dunne by Roman Freulich, 1932
Winslow Homer
American painter (b. 1836, Boston, d. 1910, Prouts Neck)
Summer Night
1890
Oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
“Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.”
—Gloria Swanson
Captain Thomas Smith was a seventeenth-century American artist and mariner who completed this self-portrait circa 1680. This painting is the earliest known self-portrait in America, and the only known self-portrait by a Puritan.
Richard Avedon, Jean Shrimpton, 1965
John Frederick Peto
Lincoln and the Star of David
1904
Private collection
oil on canvas
Height: 50.8 cm (20 in.), Width: 35.56 cm (14 in.)
The Star of David implies a lost Moses.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
American painter and designer (b. 1848, New York, d. 1933, New York)
Au nouveaux cirque, Papa Chrysanthème
1894-95
Favrile glass, leaded, 120 x 85 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Childe Hassam
American painter and printmaker (b. 1859, Dorchester, d. 1935, East Hampton)
Sunset at Sea
1911
Oil on hessian, 86 x 86 cm
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
“You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you. You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It’s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.”
—Ginger Rogers
James Abbot McNeill Whistler
American painter and printmaker (b. 1834, Lowell, d. 1903, London)
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge
1872-75
Oil on canvas, 67 x 49 cm
Tate Gallery, London
Joseph’s Coat Mennonite Quilt
Circa 1880
Pennsylvania
Gene Davis
Sour Ball Beat
1964
acrylic on canvas
126.36 x 106.68 cm
Andrew Wyeth
Open and Closed
1964
Jeff Gusky ‘Corridor in Kazimierz (Former Jewish District) Cracow, Poland 1996
Robert J. Avrech, Silent Picture, Teaneck, N.J. 2016
Marriage Ring
Mila Tanya Griebel, British, b. 1963
London, England, 2006
Silver: hand-worked and pierced; agate
3 1/16 × 15/16 × 5/8 in. (7.8 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm)
Jumping for joy, Maayan wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
13 Comments
Too bad “Spellbound” was such a crude parody of psychoanalysis. Good movie otherwise.
The Tiffany shade looks like Toulouse Lautrec’s circus painting.
http://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/Equestrienne-(at-the-cirque-fernando)-large.html
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“To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.”
Truer words ever spoken.
Robert you have quite an eye for color and angles. Did you pick a lot of this up while screen writing over the years?
I would think that in addition to the auditory portion of the movie, i.e. the screenplay, if the visual doesn’t complement that none of it’s good.
But hey I’m in amateur 🙂
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I didn’t know Captain Thomas Smith was an ancestor of Henny Youngman.
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LOL!
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Interesting problem with the photos sometimes. Mostly they appear, but sometimes — even after refreshing the page — one or two don’t show. Sometimes ones that showed don’t show after the page refresh. For instance, this time the Irene Dunne photo didn’t show, but click the link and the page with the photo alone shows up just fine. Something about the page links isn’t happy.
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Larry:
You might try using a different browser. See if that makes a difference.
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Hi. Just doing a quick look and noticed that the inability to like or dislike is browser specific. Specifically I can not use that feature with Safari. Unfortunately there are so many browsers and subversions in the wild that I can not address each individual request. This is a third party plugin called Comment Rating. I will check for any specific errors in the underlying theme and perhaps we can solve it!
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I’ve a bit of difficulty, as well. I can post comments, but am unable to register a “Like” or “Dislike.” First time I’ve encountered this.
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I have the same situation as GetThereJustAsSoon – can comment, but can’t like/dislike. I wonder if there’s some WordPress plugin on the server that need updating.
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alterbentzion,
I’ve also noticed that email notifications about comments and posts have stopped, at least in my case. There was a WordPress update available. However, I have some problems navigating with it and don’t know whether it has been applied to this site.
Meanwhile, I’ll just add that I “Like” and enjoy just about all the comments posted here.
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Another excellent edition, Robert, but I have to ask about the Marriage Ring… I must be missing something in the context. ???
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Prophet Joe:
As far as I know, no one ever actually wears this style of wedding ring. It is a gift that symbolizes the centrality of home. The artistic wedding ring is usually left on display in the home.
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We generally don’t use ornate wedding rings, because it’s hard to quickly eyeball them and guess their worth. (On a technical level, the groom is paying the bride for her hand in marriage.)
Imagine having that ring on your finger during a marital dispute!
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