Tag: daisies

Still-life and flower studies ca. 1925

Ervin Kankowszky or Rudolf Balogh (attr. to) ~ Plums in a Plate, Hungary, ca. 1925. Vintage silver print with Kankowszky press agency stamp | src 150cent
Ervin Kankowszky or Rudolf Balogh (attr. to) ~ Three Flowers, Hungary, ca. 1925. Vintage silver print with Kankowszky press agency stamp | src Senigallia
Ervin Kankowszky or Rudolf Balogh (attr. to) ~ Wild Plant Study Hungary, ca. 1925. Vintage silver print with Kankowszky press agency stamp | src Senigallia

Daisies · Sedmikrásky · 1966

Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky, 1966) · First scene

Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian Surrealist dramatic comedy written and directed by Věra Chytilová regarded as a milestone of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement.

Originally planned as a satire of bourgeois decadence, the movie targets those attached to rules and was referred to by Chytilová as “a necrologue about a negative way of life”. Daisies also inverts the stereotypical ideas of women and redraws them to the heroines’ advantage. The film is considered critical of authoritarianism, communism and patriarchy, and it was banned from theaters or export in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. [quoted from Wikipedia entry]

These film stills are the first scene; those show Marie I and Marie II sitting in bathing suits. Creaking sounds accompany their movements and their conversation is robotic. They decide that, since the whole world is spoiled (or bad), they will be spoiled as well. [quoted from wikipedia]

Ivana Karbanová (Marie II, the blonde) and Jitka Cerhová (Marie I, the brunette) in Daisies / Sedmikrásky [Věra Chytilová, 1966]

Sunbathing at an outdoor pool, Marie I (brunette) and Marie II (blonde) come to the conclusion that the world is spoiled. It’s a short leap to deciding they are spoiled too, but “so what?”. From that moment on, they run riot. | src Berlinale 2023

“Everything’s gone bad in this world… so…” (Marie 1) “we’re going… bad… as well” (Marie 2)

This first scene can be watched in Youtube with English subtitles

A trailer of the film can be watched at IMdB

Other sites with information or analysis on this film are listed below:

Deutsche Kinemathek (x)

The Criterion collection (1) and (2)

European East Film Bulletin : EEFB-1 and eefb-2

Filmovy Prehled

Film Inquiry

Desire and Eroticism in Dictatorial Times (link to pdf)

Van Besten ladies and maidens

Sebastiaan Alfonse van Besten :: Maiden with butterfly on flower, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Young girl amidst marguerites, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse van Besten :: Young girl amidst marguerites, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Purity, 1913. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse van Besten :: Purity, 1913. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse Van Besten :: Lady with poppies, 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse van Besten :: Lady with poppies, 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists
Sebastiaan Alfonse van Besten :: Study of Mrs. van Besten [Josephine Arnz] as Flemish princess, ca. 1912. Autochrome. | src Belgian Autochromists

Juliet in headdress, ca. 1945

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976) :: Juliet avec un sombrero, vers 1945 | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976) :: Juliet avec un sombrero, vers 1945 | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976) :: Juliet vers 1945 (avec fleurs) | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976) :: Juliet vers 1945 (avec fleurs) | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976) :: Juliet vers 1945 (avec chapeau) | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976) :: Juliet vers 1945 (avec chapeau) | src Centre Pompidou

Warburg by Warburg, ca. 1910

John Cimon Warburg :: Wild Flowers, ca. 1910. Autochrome. Photograph of Joan, the photographer's daughter, shown three-quarter length, standing in front of red wall paper. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Wild Flowers, ca. 1910. Autochrome. Photograph of Joan, the photographer’s daughter, shown three-quarter length, standing in front of red wall paper. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Marsh Marigolds, ca. 1910. Autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Marsh Marigolds, ca. 1910. Autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘The Sunny Doorway’, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: 'Peggy by the Orange Tree', Autochrome, 1909. Photograph of a full length portrait of Warburg's daughter Peggy standing beside an orange tree. She wears a white dress and holds a white hat in her hand. She holds onto the orange tree with her other hand. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Peggy by the Orange Tree’, Autochrome, 1909. Photograph of a full length portrait of Warburg’s daughter Peggy standing beside an orange tree. She wears a white dress and holds a white hat in her hand. She holds onto the orange tree with her other hand. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Joan in Red Riding Hood Cape with Basket’, autochrome, 6 November 1907. | src V&A Museum
Photograph of a near full length potrait of Warburg’s daughter Joan dressed in a Red Riding Hood cape. She stands beside a bush of white daisies. Warburg has annotated the plate with details regarding how the photograph was made.

Yellow flowers · Flowers

top: Gule Blomster (Yellow flowers) ; bottom: Blomster (Flowers), 1907-1937. Autochromes. | src Preus Museum

Nickolas Muray and Ilona Fulop

Nickolas Muray and Ilona Fulop, 1910s. Date range based on Muray’s approximate age in photo. Photo shows Muray with his head on Fulop’s shoulder, looking up at her and grinning, and Fulop wearing a crown of daisies. | src Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution