Portrait Of Yourself In The Attic

The portrait in the attic.

Portrait of yourself in the attic.

Till suddenly you found yourself alone in a trampled clearing. When i came down from the attic with the pastel portrait in my hand of a long lipped stranger with a brave moustache and deep brown level eyes she ripped it into shreds without a single word and slapped me hard. That was a long time ago. It was painted with blood and cardiac tissue created by the artist dipping his fingers into a human heart.

Picture of do ri an gray the ˌpɪktʃər əv ˌdɔːriən ˈɡreɪ 1891 a novel by oscar wilde about a beautiful young man dorian gray who has a painting of himself that he keeps in the attic a room under the roof of his house. Never heard of this saying before but it sounds like a reference to the picture of dorian gray who in short sells his soul so as to be able to live forever and to have a. Fearing the story was indecent prior to publication the magazine s editor deleted roughly five hundred words without wilde s knowledge. In 2014 in another french attic a rare caravaggio painting was discovered behind a locked door in an attic after the owner tried to repair a water leak according to a new york times story.

This workshop led by attic institute founder david biespiel is the kind of study every writer needs from beginners to the most advanced. It s an opportunity to write from studying your own self portrait via photos drawings snapshots b ws candids distortions c. Dna analysis has revealed that the striking portrait of a young woman discovered in the attic of the artist s great nephew has a shocking secret hidden in the red pigment on the canvas. It is smart and funny brave and wise.

Stanley kunitz 1905. The picture of dorian gray is a gothic and philosophical novel by oscar wilde first published complete in the july 1890 issue of lippincott s monthly magazine. With undue frigidity thelma meets her new mother. Van gogh s own correspondence does not refer to the sale of a self portrait but there is a reference to another parisian dealer who had been interested in acquiring his work athanase bague.

In every way a satisfying read. That s because he is a wonderful protagonist one who makes difficult moral choices though always in an authentically adolescent way. Dorian gray s own face remains young and beautiful but the face in the painting looks older and more ugly as gray becomes more and more evil and immoral. The painting is valued at more than 136 million though some have doubted the authenticity of judith beheading holofernes the story said.