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Thursday, July 4, 2019
Carloluigi Colombo paints
Famous Woman Spotted by Paparazzi on the Seaside of Long Beach
George Gissing was aBritish novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and his death in 1903. In 1901 he wrote "By the Ionian Sea," a narrative of his travels in southern Italia. According to Ennio Flaiano, who cowrote the 1960 film "La Dolce Vita," he opened at random poet Margherita Guidacci's 1957 translation "Sulle Rive dello Ionio" and noticed the name of a restaurant owner, Coriolano Paparazzo. Since in Flaiano's Abruzzo dialect, "paparazzo" is the name of a clam that is used as a metaphor for the shutter of a camera lens, he and director Federico Fellini decided to appropriate the name for a news photographer in the film. Fellini said the name suggested "a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging." By the end of the decade "paparazzi" had entered the English language as a generic term for intrusive photographers of celebrities who then sell their photos to gossip magazines and tabloid journals. To be photographed in that manner is to be "papped."
George Gissing was aBritish novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and his death in 1903. In 1901 he wrote "By the Ionian Sea," a narrative of his travels in southern Italia. According to Ennio Flaiano, who cowrote the 1960 film "La Dolce Vita," he opened at random poet Margherita Guidacci's 1957 translation "Sulle Rive dello Ionio" and noticed the name of a restaurant owner, Coriolano Paparazzo. Since in Flaiano's Abruzzo dialect, "paparazzo" is the name of a clam that is used as a metaphor for the shutter of a camera lens, he and director Federico Fellini decided to appropriate the name for a news photographer in the film. Fellini said the name suggested "a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging." By the end of the decade "paparazzi" had entered the English language as a generic term for intrusive photographers of celebrities who then sell their photos to gossip magazines and tabloid journals. To be photographed in that manner is to be "papped."
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ReplyDeleteClearly this my painting has also an "esoteric" signification
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