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Post by moorland on Sept 17, 2009 21:46:28 GMT
Doesn't anyone agree she looks like a very young KB circa '78-'79?  |
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Post by tannis on Sept 17, 2009 22:27:46 GMT
Yes, moorland, I see what you mean   And here's Kate and Theda Bara looking alike  Tribute to Theda Bara
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91EuPTqetYQ
Photos of the beautiful and talanted Theda Bara,with the song Babooshka(Kate Bush)
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Post by saloldgal on Sept 19, 2009 8:12:59 GMT
Kate's talent, and the way she made her mark young in a male-dominated business, has always made me think of Camille Claudel, who made her mark in sculpture when that was still a mans world. "A revolt against nature: a woman genius", according to one art critic. A while back, I thought I would find out a little more about Camille Claudel, and I found a photo of her which I think bears a lot of resemblance to some of Kate's photos: Camille:  Our beloved Kate:    Then there's this: Camille Claudel's brother was also a poet, the famous Paul Claudel. Maybe Kate was Camille in a past life! |
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Post by tannis on Sept 19, 2009 15:27:30 GMT
Yes, Sal, there are similarities. And Kate has also worked in bronze... ...a sculpture by Kate entitled "Strange Fruit" was included in an auction of artwork by music artists in aid of the Warchild charity, The Milestones Gallery, celebrating milestones in music. Various musicians were asked to create three-dimensional artworks celebrating the people who were of a special significance to them in their musical career. It included Lou Reed on Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono on John Lennon, Paul McCartney on Buddy Holly among others. Kate's sculpture (which was Lot No.2, a Bronze mounted on stone, base 15" by 13", height 7 and a half inches. Signed "Kate Bush 1996") was a tribute to Billie Holiday. There was a short piece by Kate describing the work;
"Billie Holiday is one of my favourite singers. She is still a great inspiration. I sang with a band when I was eighteen and always wore a flower behind my ear to be like her: I felt it brought me luck. This sculpture shares it's name with one of her favourite songs. I've tried to depict her mouth in mid-song growing among the flowers"
Also there is a longer description by Kate of the work in the exhibition catalogue:
"...When the image came up of the mouth and the flower, it just felt for some that some reason that bronze was a really good medium. I had been wanting to try for six months to do sculpture and to try Bronze. It was really fun for me. I've not done anything like this before, to work with something that's a solid, three-dimensional object, as opposed to music which is so completely untouchable physically. It was thrilling to have something which was just a lump of metal, which you can turn around but you can no longer change of fiddle with. The Royal College of Art very kindly let me use their facilities and cast the piece for me. I modelled it in wax. I'd never really appreciated how lovely it is to be working with something so tactile. It really does take shapes, it takes your fingerprints into it. I found it very therapeutic, I'd recommend it to anyone. And I'd never appreciated how wonderful bronze is, when it's molten it looks like liquid fire."
Kate's sculpture raised £600 for the charity and was exhibited to the general public in the ground floor gallery of the Economist Plaza in St. James's Street London from the 6th to 16th of February 1997www.katebushnews.com/leaving.htmI had not heard of Camille Claudel before, but after 1905 she appeared to be mentally deranged, destroyed many of her statues, disappeared for long periods of time and exhibited signs of paranoia. She died on 19 October 1943, after having lived 30 years in the asylum at Montfavet, and without a visit from her mother or sister. Some historians speculate that her brother, also an artist, felt overshadowed by her strength in art and wanted her out of the way [wiki]. The motion picture Camille Claudel was made about her life in 1988. Co-produced by Isabelle Adjani, starring herself as Claudel and Gérard Depardieu as Rodin, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1989. Her story reminds me of Francis Farmer. Mylène Jeanne Gautier changed her name to Mylène Farmer as a tribute to her idol, 1930s Hollywood actress Frances Farmer.see more:
Camille Claudel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6r-g1IhNE
Camille Claudel (1988) 1/19
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyV7k3CWwts
THE SENSUAL WORLD (1989) ALBUM COVER: the mouth and the flowerkatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=thesensualworld&action=display&thread=1743&page=1
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Post by saloldgal on Sept 24, 2009 15:56:59 GMT
Wow, I forget about her sculpture for War Child. Thanks for the pic, this is the first time I've seen it. It certainly is original. I wonder if she's done any more since.
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Post by tannis on Sept 26, 2009 1:27:08 GMT
Wow, I forget about her sculpture for War Child. Thanks for the pic, this is the first time I've seen it. It certainly is original. I wonder if she's done any more since.
Here's another picture of KaTe's War Child sculpture.  Kate Bush's Milestone
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is one of my favourite singers. She is still a great inspiration. I sang with a band when I was eighteen and always wore a flower behind my ear to be like her: I felt it brought me luck. This sculpture shares its name with one of her favourite songs. I've tried to depict her mouth in mid-song growing among the flowers like "Strange Fruit."
With thanks to Thomas Ostenberg
Strange Fruit
Bronze mounted on stone, base 15" x 13", height 71/2".
Signed "Kate Bush 1996".www.warchild.org/Interactive_Galleries/Milestones/milestones.html |
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