True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu
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Véritable portrait de Monsieur Ubu[1] (1896, English: True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu) is a woodcut by Alfred Jarry, representing Ubu in Ubu Roi. It is contrasted to "autre portrait de Monsieur Ubu"[2] which has no resemblance to the first.
The portrait shows a mysterious figure wearing a dunce-cap, with a stomach (a beer belly) with a spiral insignia, the gidouille. Under his right armpit is a stick, one such as a teacher might carry.
- "One of the singularities of Ubu Roi is that it was illustrated — although sparsely — by Jarry himself. His illustrations depict the hero "Pere Ubu" as a short barrel-shaped character whose distinguishing features are a dunce-cap and an enormous spiral (known as "La Gidouille") inscribed upon his stomach, suggestive of his predominantly intestinal functions." -- Joan Miró : magnetic fields [3]
- Visual models for Ubu were provided by Jarry in his True Portrait of. Monsieur Ubu (Fig. 2) and costume directions. Jarry depicts Ubu as a short, rotund figure, clothed in an encasing robe with a hood that ends, appropriately, in a dunce's cap. --Surrealist Traits in the Heads of Alfred Pellan
See also
- Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts, exhibition the Spencer Museum of Art in 1998
- Fancy portrait
Online
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ubu-Jarry.png
- http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/almanac/ubu3.shtml
- http://archive.org/stream/uburoidrameencin00jarr#page/7/mode/1up, from the 1897 Mercure de France edition of Ubu Roi
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