June 15, 2014
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Via via I discover Gustave Doré's The Rare and Extraordinary History of Holy Russia (1854), 500 drawings executed by Doré when he was just 21.
Doré was a genius, perhaps only equaled by Grandville (thirty year's Doré's senior).
The History of Holy Russia features a number of experimental and metatextual elements which are as surprising as the ones in the black page in Tristram Shandy.
I will show you one: a red splodge[1] which represents the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
Satie and Suzanne Valadon, an artists' model and artist in her own right, and a long-time friend of Miguel Utrillo (and mother of Maurice Utrillo), began an affair early in 1893. After their first night together, he proposed marriage. The two did not marry, but Valadon moved to a room next to Satie's at the Template:Lang. Satie became obsessed with her, calling her his Template:Lang, and writing impassioned notes about "her whole being, lovely eyes, gentle hands, and tiny feet". During their relationship, Satie composed the Template:Lang as a kind of prayer to restore peace of mind, and Valadon painted a portrait of Satie, which she gave to him. After six months she moved away, leaving Satie broken-hearted. Afterwards, he said that he was left with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness the heart with sadness". It is believed this was the only intimate relationship Satie ever had.
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