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Russians
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akgjijo ghdgklgn fklgnafgd.
Mom found a bunch of old Doll Reader magazines in her room, and I was looking through them hoping to find this one doll artist in there. No luck. I'm sure I'd seen her before, but I can't find her now. ARGH!
She was a Russian lady who made very stylized, gorgeous dolls. Their faces were pale, noses long, nice costumes...
I can't remember her name, and can't find the magazine she was in. I'm wondering if I made her up, or if she's somehow disappeared. Wouldn't that be scary, if you could just disappear? Like you never existed?
I wanted to find it, since it was those dolls I had in mind when I was thinking of making an Alucard doll. Those lovely faces... I wanted to make something like that.
By the way, he has a new name. Instead of referring to him as "the Alucard doll," he is now - Dollycard. X3 Uwaah~
I found an article on Alexandra Koukinova in one of the magazines - this is the article - http://collectdolls.about.com/library/p
is interesting... somehow, the quality of the dolls that I struck a chord with most isn't on that site... maybe her work has changed. *shrug* But I don't think this is her. I like her, though.
Someone on the internets made mention of Natalia Lopusova-Tomskaya - I actually found it when I just searched "doll artists" in Google Images. I found this:
( Click for cuteness. :3 )
http://www.ravendance.com/wordpress/
I think it's her.
I remember the name.
As soon as I saw the doll, I liked her, thought this might be at least in the same STYLE.
But unfortunately, I can't find SQUAT on her. ANYWHERE.
I know I read about her in a magazine fairly recently - at least in the last year - but I can't FIND THE MAGAZINE ARGH.
Driving me nuts.
I don't know what it is about Russians- and other E. European folks - that makes me identify so strongly... Also, Holocaust stories really get to me, as do tales of immigrants coming to America. Either I was an Eastern European, possibly Jewish, in a past lifetime, or it's blood that's in me now. XD My great grandparents immigrated to the US in the early part of the 1900's from Czechoslovakia- Prague, in fact. I find it extremely amusing that Franz Kafka, whose works I like a LOT, was in Prague at the same time as my great grandparents.
They were purportedly Catholics, who said "screw you" to the church when, once in America, they wouldn't recognize their marriage, which had been done in a courthouse and not a church. But, I kind of wonder. There were rampant huge noses in my grandpa's side of the family. XD My mom was so glad she lucked out of it. >>
But my mom says her sister has Kafka's nose. XD Lol. He's Jewish.
I just find it amusing, since I'd be fine with it either way. My religion is... not anything conventional at all. I guess part of me also is kind of reaching for some sense of history and heritage in my family. I guess I need to do more research...
Back to the Russians, though. I read a LOOOOT of Russian literature Senior year of High School, and ate it up. Made me depressed as shit, but it was SOOO good. Crime and Punishment started it, and I finally got to finish of Notes from the Underground. Dostoevsky is my favorite. I can't even list all the others. I've read some of Kafka's short stories too - Metamorphosis being the first...
I guess, they're all extremely intelligent writers, and I admire that. I like books that make you think. And these... man, they're rollercoasters. They'll BREAK your brain... They're beautiful.
And then there's Russian dolls I like. I don't know, maybe it's the snow, and the sense of the 1800's. I like the 1800's with a passion. SOMETHING about it I can't place.
Damn, I need to read that Rasputin book...
I'm always so proud of whenever a Czech person is even mentioned, since I'm 1/4. It's my most cohesive chunk of nationality...
And it's also probably why I dig vampires, and Dracula, and all that - it's where a lot of the tales started, that entire Eastern region. Vlad Tepes wasn't all that far away from my ancestors. I wonder how far back I could track it... I wonder who it was that came before me...
It's freakin weird.
I'm fascinated by old things... I'm considering a lot of things in making Dollycard, here. Part of me wants to make him with all old-like materials, because of his age, and another part wants me to make the arms, etc, in Sculpey, which would be more "Invincible" - stronger, and age resistant. I ALWAYS think of how my art will look 50 years or more down the road, since I've seen so many bad things happen to old things. I always want it to last forever...
How odd.
P.S. - Dollycard's probably going to get his own LJ.
...
Dollycard isn't the most masculine name in the book, is it. XD
akgjijo ghdgklgn fklgnafgd.
Mom found a bunch of old Doll Reader magazines in her room, and I was looking through them hoping to find this one doll artist in there. No luck. I'm sure I'd seen her before, but I can't find her now. ARGH!
She was a Russian lady who made very stylized, gorgeous dolls. Their faces were pale, noses long, nice costumes...
I can't remember her name, and can't find the magazine she was in. I'm wondering if I made her up, or if she's somehow disappeared. Wouldn't that be scary, if you could just disappear? Like you never existed?
I wanted to find it, since it was those dolls I had in mind when I was thinking of making an Alucard doll. Those lovely faces... I wanted to make something like that.
By the way, he has a new name. Instead of referring to him as "the Alucard doll," he is now - Dollycard. X3 Uwaah~
I found an article on Alexandra Koukinova in one of the magazines - this is the article - http://collectdolls.about.com/library/p
is interesting... somehow, the quality of the dolls that I struck a chord with most isn't on that site... maybe her work has changed. *shrug* But I don't think this is her. I like her, though.
Someone on the internets made mention of Natalia Lopusova-Tomskaya - I actually found it when I just searched "doll artists" in Google Images. I found this:
( Click for cuteness. :3 )
http://www.ravendance.com/wordpress/
I think it's her.
I remember the name.
As soon as I saw the doll, I liked her, thought this might be at least in the same STYLE.
But unfortunately, I can't find SQUAT on her. ANYWHERE.
I know I read about her in a magazine fairly recently - at least in the last year - but I can't FIND THE MAGAZINE ARGH.
Driving me nuts.
I don't know what it is about Russians- and other E. European folks - that makes me identify so strongly... Also, Holocaust stories really get to me, as do tales of immigrants coming to America. Either I was an Eastern European, possibly Jewish, in a past lifetime, or it's blood that's in me now. XD My great grandparents immigrated to the US in the early part of the 1900's from Czechoslovakia- Prague, in fact. I find it extremely amusing that Franz Kafka, whose works I like a LOT, was in Prague at the same time as my great grandparents.
They were purportedly Catholics, who said "screw you" to the church when, once in America, they wouldn't recognize their marriage, which had been done in a courthouse and not a church. But, I kind of wonder. There were rampant huge noses in my grandpa's side of the family. XD My mom was so glad she lucked out of it. >>
But my mom says her sister has Kafka's nose. XD Lol. He's Jewish.
I just find it amusing, since I'd be fine with it either way. My religion is... not anything conventional at all. I guess part of me also is kind of reaching for some sense of history and heritage in my family. I guess I need to do more research...
Back to the Russians, though. I read a LOOOOT of Russian literature Senior year of High School, and ate it up. Made me depressed as shit, but it was SOOO good. Crime and Punishment started it, and I finally got to finish of Notes from the Underground. Dostoevsky is my favorite. I can't even list all the others. I've read some of Kafka's short stories too - Metamorphosis being the first...
I guess, they're all extremely intelligent writers, and I admire that. I like books that make you think. And these... man, they're rollercoasters. They'll BREAK your brain... They're beautiful.
And then there's Russian dolls I like. I don't know, maybe it's the snow, and the sense of the 1800's. I like the 1800's with a passion. SOMETHING about it I can't place.
Damn, I need to read that Rasputin book...
I'm always so proud of whenever a Czech person is even mentioned, since I'm 1/4. It's my most cohesive chunk of nationality...
And it's also probably why I dig vampires, and Dracula, and all that - it's where a lot of the tales started, that entire Eastern region. Vlad Tepes wasn't all that far away from my ancestors. I wonder how far back I could track it... I wonder who it was that came before me...
It's freakin weird.
I'm fascinated by old things... I'm considering a lot of things in making Dollycard, here. Part of me wants to make him with all old-like materials, because of his age, and another part wants me to make the arms, etc, in Sculpey, which would be more "Invincible" - stronger, and age resistant. I ALWAYS think of how my art will look 50 years or more down the road, since I've seen so many bad things happen to old things. I always want it to last forever...
How odd.
P.S. - Dollycard's probably going to get his own LJ.
...
Dollycard isn't the most masculine name in the book, is it. XD