#puppetry — Public Fediverse posts

Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/14/ian-mckellen-king-lear-yard-theatre-east-london #Theatre #IanMckellen #SimonStephens #Stage #Culture #UkNews #Hackney #KingLear #Film #Puppetry #JackieCollins #VirginiaWoolf #Architecture

Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/14/ian-mckellen-king-lear-yard-theatre-east-london #Theatre #IanMckellen #SimonStephens #Stage #Culture #UkNews #Hackney #KingLear #Film #Puppetry #JackieCollins #VirginiaWoolf #Architecture

Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/14/ian-mckellen-king-lear-yard-theatre-east-london #Theatre #IanMckellen #SimonStephens #Stage #Culture #UkNews #Hackney #KingLear #Film #Puppetry #JackieCollins #VirginiaWoolf #Architecture

Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/14/ian-mckellen-king-lear-yard-theatre-east-london #Theatre #IanMckellen #SimonStephens #Stage #Culture #UkNews #Hackney #KingLear #Film #Puppetry #JackieCollins #VirginiaWoolf #Architecture

BINJ News: The Boston Library Where You Still Can Borrow A Giant Puppet. “Beneath the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston, tucked away in the basement, sits a library. A puppet library. It’s been there for decades, and despite innumerable changes in the nearby retail storefronts, this hidden artistic community treasure remains. Throughout the cellar, puppets of all shapes, sizes, and […]

„2nd Celluloid Golem International Puppet Art Festival“

Wenn Michal Svironi am Donnerstag, 7. Mai, die Bühne im FFT Düsseldorf betritt, bringt sie mehr mit als…
#Duesseldorf #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Düsseldorf #Blanche #Carte #FFT #Germany #Internationale #Künstler #Künstlerin #Künstlerinnen #Magarshak #Nordrhein-Westfalen #Puppet #Puppetry #Riegg #Svironi
https://www.europesays.com/de/981460/

👁️ PUPPET EYES! 👁️
Puppet eyes that I made around 10 years ago. Out of paper and a styrofoam ball.
Simple craft materials with creative imagination.

For more puppetry and cartoon animation by Erica Crooks: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (Socials | Patreon | Shop)

#puppetry #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #puppetbuilding #puppetmaking #ericacrooks #indieartist #craftartist #DIYart

👁️ PUPPET EYES! 👁️
Puppet eyes that I made around 10 years ago. Out of paper and a styrofoam ball.
Simple craft materials with creative imagination.

For more puppetry and cartoon animation by Erica Crooks: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (Socials | Patreon | Shop)

#puppetry #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #puppetbuilding #puppetmaking #ericacrooks #indieartist #craftartist #DIYart

👁️ PUPPET EYES! 👁️
Puppet eyes that I made around 10 years ago. Out of paper and a styrofoam ball.
Simple craft materials with creative imagination.

For more puppetry and cartoon animation by Erica Crooks: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (Socials | Patreon | Shop)

#puppetry #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #puppetbuilding #puppetmaking #ericacrooks #indieartist #craftartist #DIYart

Happy #GerryAndersonDay to all who celebrate! No strings on us!

SIG!!

The toys that came out of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 made some of the very best toys a kid could have (I wish I had held onto my Space 1999 Eagle!)

#GerryAnderson #SuperMarionation #puppet #puppetry #ScienceFiction #CaptainScarlet #Thunderbirds

Happy #GerryAndersonDay to all who celebrate! No strings on us!

SIG!!

The toys that came out of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 made some of the very best toys a kid could have (I wish I had held onto my Space 1999 Eagle!)

#GerryAnderson #SuperMarionation #puppet #puppetry #ScienceFiction #CaptainScarlet #Thunderbirds

Happy #GerryAndersonDay to all who celebrate! No strings on us!

SIG!!

The toys that came out of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 made some of the very best toys a kid could have (I wish I had held onto my Space 1999 Eagle!)

#GerryAnderson #SuperMarionation #puppet #puppetry #ScienceFiction #CaptainScarlet #Thunderbirds

Happy #GerryAndersonDay to all who celebrate! No strings on us!

SIG!!

The toys that came out of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 made some of the very best toys a kid could have (I wish I had held onto my Space 1999 Eagle!)

#GerryAnderson #SuperMarionation #puppet #puppetry #ScienceFiction #CaptainScarlet #Thunderbirds

Happy #GerryAndersonDay to all who celebrate! No strings on us!

SIG!!

The toys that came out of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 made some of the very best toys a kid could have (I wish I had held onto my Space 1999 Eagle!)

#GerryAnderson #SuperMarionation #puppet #puppetry #ScienceFiction #CaptainScarlet #Thunderbirds

Many years ago I saw the ads for #AvenueQ and ignored them, I thought it was a muppet musical for children. It was only after its original run had finished that I heard anything about what it was actually like.

Today I finally saw it. Fun. Not great. But fun.

The internet is *not* made just for porn. It is also made for sharing #theatre recommendations. You should go.

#MusicalTheatre #musicals #puppetry

Many years ago I saw the ads for #AvenueQ and ignored them, I thought it was a muppet musical for children. It was only after its original run had finished that I heard anything about what it was actually like.

Today I finally saw it. Fun. Not great. But fun.

The internet is *not* made just for porn. It is also made for sharing #theatre recommendations. You should go.

#MusicalTheatre #musicals #puppetry

Many years ago I saw the ads for #AvenueQ and ignored them, I thought it was a muppet musical for children. It was only after its original run had finished that I heard anything about what it was actually like.

Today I finally saw it. Fun. Not great. But fun.

The internet is *not* made just for porn. It is also made for sharing #theatre recommendations. You should go.

#MusicalTheatre #musicals #puppetry

Many years ago I saw the ads for #AvenueQ and ignored them, I thought it was a muppet musical for children. It was only after its original run had finished that I heard anything about what it was actually like.

Today I finally saw it. Fun. Not great. But fun.

The internet is *not* made just for porn. It is also made for sharing #theatre recommendations. You should go.

#MusicalTheatre #musicals #puppetry

Many years ago I saw the ads for #AvenueQ and ignored them, I thought it was a muppet musical for children. It was only after its original run had finished that I heard anything about what it was actually like.

Today I finally saw it. Fun. Not great. But fun.

The internet is *not* made just for porn. It is also made for sharing #theatre recommendations. You should go.

#MusicalTheatre #musicals #puppetry

Are MEMES Just Comic Strips for People Who Can't Draw? 🎭

🔗 More satire puppetry and cartoons from Erica Crooks (Socials | Patreon | Shop): https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks

#puppetry #ericacrooks #satire #philosophy #artist #infp #transartist #meme #memes #creative

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

* Kurt Vonnegut

###

As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

* Kurt Vonnegut

###

As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

* Kurt Vonnegut

###

As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

* Kurt Vonnegut

###

As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

… Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

“Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

* Kurt Vonnegut

###

As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

Zack is currently upgrading all his puppets in the art studio at the rear of our house, while I sort and digitize my slide collection. #art #artwork #artstudio #studio #studios #artstudios #puppet #puppets #ferns #bostonfern #bostonferns #den #windows #light #bright #sunlight #puppetry #slides #digital #digitizing #photography

Zack is currently upgrading all his puppets in the art studio at the rear of our house, while I sort and digitize my slide collection. #art #artwork #artstudio #studio #studios #artstudios #puppet #puppets #ferns #bostonfern #bostonferns #den #windows #light #bright #sunlight #puppetry #slides #digital #digitizing #photography

Zack is currently upgrading all his puppets in the art studio at the rear of our house, while I sort and digitize my slide collection. #art #artwork #artstudio #studio #studios #artstudios #puppet #puppets #ferns #bostonfern #bostonferns #den #windows #light #bright #sunlight #puppetry #slides #digital #digitizing #photography

Zack is currently upgrading all his puppets in the art studio at the rear of our house, while I sort and digitize my slide collection. #art #artwork #artstudio #studio #studios #artstudios #puppet #puppets #ferns #bostonfern #bostonferns #den #windows #light #bright #sunlight #puppetry #slides #digital #digitizing #photography

Zack is currently upgrading all his puppets in the art studio at the rear of our house, while I sort and digitize my slide collection. #art #artwork #artstudio #studio #studios #artstudios #puppet #puppets #ferns #bostonfern #bostonferns #den #windows #light #bright #sunlight #puppetry #slides #digital #digitizing #photography

#OnThisDay The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force(1994).

Birth Anniversary of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna (1960) - often voted as best and most influential #FormulaOne driver of all time in various motorsport polls.

Today is International Day of #Forests,
International Day for the Elimination of #Racial #Discrimination,
World #Poetry Day,
World #Puppetry Day,
World #DownSyndrome Day and
International #ColourDay.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Rediscover The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance with this 2019 video essay, "The First Thing I Remember Is Fire." A lovely deep-dive into puppetry, lore and dark fantasy — perfect for fans of craft and worldbuilding. Watch, reflect, and share your favorite moment! #TheDarkCrystal #AgeOfResistance #Puppetry #Fantasy #VideoEssay #Review #FanVideo #English
https://video.simoneviaggiatore.com/videos/watch/22417727-0ede-47ed-9e25-ff9ef39b79bf

My latest puppet building experiment is a homage to the "creepy caricature" aesthetic.
It’s strongly inspired by the grotesque, satirical puppet legends of early Spitting Image and Les Guignols puppet caricature styles as well as The Muppets.

🔗 Full Linktree & Socials: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks

#puppetbuilding #ericacrooks #characterdesign #puppeteer #puppetmaker #puppetbuilder #foamsculpture #caricatureart #puppetry #foampuppet #puppets #satire #creepyart #spittingimagestyle #muppetstyle

My latest puppet building experiment is a homage to the "creepy caricature" aesthetic.
It’s strongly inspired by the grotesque, satirical puppet legends of early Spitting Image and Les Guignols puppet caricature styles as well as The Muppets.

🔗 Full Linktree & Socials: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks

#puppetbuilding #ericacrooks #characterdesign #puppeteer #puppetmaker #puppetbuilder #foamsculpture #caricatureart #puppetry #foampuppet #puppets #satire #creepyart #spittingimagestyle #muppetstyle

My latest puppet building experiment is a homage to the "creepy caricature" aesthetic.
It’s strongly inspired by the grotesque, satirical puppet legends of early Spitting Image and Les Guignols puppet caricature styles as well as The Muppets.

🔗 Full Linktree & Socials: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks

#puppetbuilding #ericacrooks #characterdesign #puppeteer #puppetmaker #puppetbuilder #foamsculpture #caricatureart #puppetry #foampuppet #puppets #satire #creepyart #spittingimagestyle #muppetstyle

Greetings my name is House! :heart_fire: New to Mastodon and looking for folks who vibe with the art & sounds that I make in the worlds of

#modularsynths
#synthesizers
#fieldrecording
#5stringbass
#comics
#zines
#puppetry
#fabrication
#mechs
#stopmotion
#animation
#linocut
#shortfilms
#watercolor
#needlefelting
#writing
#photography
#lomography
#poetry
#playwrighting

Found of #thankyoutinesday - celebrate today! www.thankyoutinesday.com

Into any of these trips? Let's connect!

Puppet Building Post!
Here's some behind the scenes photos.

(1. Character Design
(2. Prototype sculpture
(3. Finished puppet head

For more puppet and cartoon art from from Erica Crooks,
visit: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (socials, store & Patreon)

#puppetbuilding #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #softsculpture #puppetry #puppet #puppeteer #foamsculpture #foam #puppetmaking #makingpuppets #sculpture #performingarts #ericacrooks #artist #caricature #caricaturist #cartoonist #drawing

Puppet Building Post!
Here's some behind the scenes photos.

(1. Character Design
(2. Prototype sculpture
(3. Finished puppet head

For more puppet and cartoon art from from Erica Crooks,
visit: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (socials, store & Patreon)

#puppetbuilding #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #softsculpture #puppetry #puppet #puppeteer #foamsculpture #foam #puppetmaking #makingpuppets #sculpture #performingarts #ericacrooks #artist #caricature #caricaturist #cartoonist #drawing

Puppet Building Post!
Here's some behind the scenes photos.

(1. Character Design
(2. Prototype sculpture
(3. Finished puppet head

For more puppet and cartoon art from from Erica Crooks,
visit: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (socials, store & Patreon)

#puppetbuilding #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #softsculpture #puppetry #puppet #puppeteer #foamsculpture #foam #puppetmaking #makingpuppets #sculpture #performingarts #ericacrooks #artist #caricature #caricaturist #cartoonist #drawing

Puppet Building Post!
Here's some behind the scenes photos.

(1. Character Design
(2. Prototype sculpture
(3. Finished puppet head

For more puppet and cartoon art from from Erica Crooks,
visit: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (socials, store & Patreon)

#puppetbuilding #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #softsculpture #puppetry #puppet #puppeteer #foamsculpture #foam #puppetmaking #makingpuppets #sculpture #performingarts #ericacrooks #artist #caricature #caricaturist #cartoonist #drawing

Puppet Building Post!
Here's some behind the scenes photos.

(1. Character Design
(2. Prototype sculpture
(3. Finished puppet head

For more puppet and cartoon art from from Erica Crooks,
visit: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (socials, store & Patreon)

#puppetbuilding #puppetbuilder #puppetmaker #softsculpture #puppetry #puppet #puppeteer #foamsculpture #foam #puppetmaking #makingpuppets #sculpture #performingarts #ericacrooks #artist #caricature #caricaturist #cartoonist #drawing

Other than our live special guest for the @mskierstenmusic #LilypadLibrary shoot yesterday, we also got to meet our newest #puppet friend, Mayweather! Another amazing creation built and puppeteered by Richard Michael Gomez.

Very excited to have our first live-hand puppet in the world of Singalong Swamp 👐

https://www.instagram.com/richardmichaelgomez/

#KidsEntertainment #ChildrensMedia #ChildrensTelevision #Puppetry #PuppetBuilder #Animals #Cute #VideoProduction #BehindTheScenes #NoAI

Other than our live special guest for the @mskierstenmusic #LilypadLibrary shoot yesterday, we also got to meet our newest #puppet friend, Mayweather! Another amazing creation built and puppeteered by Richard Michael Gomez.

Very excited to have our first live-hand puppet in the world of Singalong Swamp 👐

https://www.instagram.com/richardmichaelgomez/

#KidsEntertainment #ChildrensMedia #ChildrensTelevision #Puppetry #PuppetBuilder #Animals #Cute #VideoProduction #BehindTheScenes #NoAI

Other than our live special guest for the @mskierstenmusic #LilypadLibrary shoot yesterday, we also got to meet our newest #puppet friend, Mayweather! Another amazing creation built and puppeteered by Richard Michael Gomez.

Very excited to have our first live-hand puppet in the world of Singalong Swamp 👐

https://www.instagram.com/richardmichaelgomez/

#KidsEntertainment #ChildrensMedia #ChildrensTelevision #Puppetry #PuppetBuilder #Animals #Cute #VideoProduction #BehindTheScenes #NoAI

Other than our live special guest for the @mskierstenmusic #LilypadLibrary shoot yesterday, we also got to meet our newest #puppet friend, Mayweather! Another amazing creation built and puppeteered by Richard Michael Gomez.

Very excited to have our first live-hand puppet in the world of Singalong Swamp 👐

https://www.instagram.com/richardmichaelgomez/

#KidsEntertainment #ChildrensMedia #ChildrensTelevision #Puppetry #PuppetBuilder #Animals #Cute #VideoProduction #BehindTheScenes #NoAI

Other than our live special guest for the @mskierstenmusic #LilypadLibrary shoot yesterday, we also got to meet our newest #puppet friend, Mayweather! Another amazing creation built and puppeteered by Richard Michael Gomez.

Very excited to have our first live-hand puppet in the world of Singalong Swamp 👐

https://www.instagram.com/richardmichaelgomez/

#KidsEntertainment #ChildrensMedia #ChildrensTelevision #Puppetry #PuppetBuilder #Animals #Cute #VideoProduction #BehindTheScenes #NoAI

The 1990 Total Recall is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know David Cronenberg was the original director for it and created the character of Kuato and all the mutants (although it makes perfect sense). The puppet itself was created by Rob Bottin.

How Kuato the mutant was created for Total Recall without any CGI: https://www.slashfilm.com/1595588/total-recall-sci-fi-mutant-kuato-no-cgi-how

#90s #scifi #PaulVerhoeven #TotalRecall #Cronenberg #DavidCronenberg #Kuato #PracticalEffects #90sFilm #90sFilms #90sMoviss #90sScifi #Verhoeven #mutants #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #puppets #puppetry #film #films #movies

A hilarious blooper where puppet improv goes wrong! This character realized he might need a little work done on the neck… 🪡🧵

More from Erica Crooks : https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks ( socials, Patreon & store )

#funny #comedy #puppetry #bloopers #puppetbloopers #improvcomedy #ericacrooks #puppetcomedy #shorts #reels #funnybloopers #improv

A hilarious blooper where puppet improv goes wrong! This character realized he might need a little work done on the neck… 🪡🧵

More from Erica Crooks : https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks ( socials, Patreon & store )

#funny #comedy #puppetry #bloopers #puppetbloopers #improvcomedy #ericacrooks #puppetcomedy #shorts #reels #funnybloopers #improv

A hilarious blooper where puppet improv goes wrong! This character realized he might need a little work done on the neck… 🪡🧵

More from Erica Crooks : https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks ( socials, Patreon & store )

#funny #comedy #puppetry #bloopers #puppetbloopers #improvcomedy #ericacrooks #puppetcomedy #shorts #reels #funnybloopers #improv