눈과귀정화: Little Jewish Girl in Blue Ribbon

눈과 마음의정화: The Little Jewish Girl in a Blue Ribbon, Irène Cahen d'Anvers, 1880-1883. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

원제: La petite fille au ruban bleu

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Sometimes you need to behold something innocent and beautiful to find peace, to break free of the dark forces. And when you do, you might be able to somehow ignore, and perhaps even rise above, the hate, the stench, and the ugliness of self-loathing you often find in some of the darkest, direst, most ungraceful of all places.


Irène, depicted above at 11 when she posed for the Renoir portrait in 1883, survived the holocaust and died a natural death in 1963.


It was a minor, yet sad, fact that she had to have converted to Christianity for that to happen, but nobody had known what was to come later, making it a random event that worked in her favor.


Earlier this evening, I went out to dinner in the bustling entertainment district downtown and was amazed to find a girl looking just like her as if she had popped right out of the very Renoir painting after 132 years of sitting at that pose. How refreshing!


further reading

영어 http://random-anb.blogspot.kr/2010/10/i-have-replica-of-renoir-painting.html

한국어 http://lupus.tistory.com/393