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Hide in your shell (or where are we #2?)


Hide in your shell (or where are we #2?)
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Copyright: Sergio Viana (vascao) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 893 W: 58 N: 1220] (5017)
Genre: Lieux
Média: Couleur
Date de prise de vue: 2008-09-07
Catégories: Oeuvres d'art
Appareil photographique: Fujifilm Finepix S9100, 58mm Hoya PL-CIR
Exposition: f/3.7, 1/100 secondes
More Photo Info: [view]
Versions: version originale, Workshop
Date de soumission: 2008-09-08 3:15
Vue: 406
Points: 8
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This is a replica of the Little Mermaid, an icon of Copenhagen, situated in front of the Navy Headquarters, in Brasília (a wider view is available as a WS). My humble tribute to Roger Hodgson, frontman of Supertramp, whose excellent show in Brasília was memorable this week. "Hide In Your Shell" (Davies/Hodgson) is a song that appears on the 1974 album "Crime of the Century" (A&M).

Hans Christian Andersen first published the beloved fairy tale of The Little Mermaid in 1837.

It is the story of the Little Mermaid who saves the life of a shipwrecked prince and sets off on a perilous quest to win his love. The price she pays is dear. To become human she must give up her lovely voice as well as her mermaid's tail, and if the prince should wed another, she will turn into foam on the waves and disappear forever. In 1909 the Danish brewer Carl Jacobsen attended Hans Beck's ballet The Little Mermaid. He was so thrilled by the performance that he ordered a statue erected in its honour.

The sculptor Edvard Eriksen was commissioned to create the statue, a little mermaid sitting on a granite stone at Langelinie Pier, wistfully looking towards the shore and the illuminated world of the humans. Edward Eriksen chose to sculpt her at the moment when her fish tail is being transformed into legs. Her head and torso were modelled after sculptor Edvard Eriksen's own wife, Eline. The statue is made of bronze, and it stands 165 centimetres tall and weighs 175 kilos. Carl Jacobsen presented her to the city of Copenhagen on August 23, 1913. Every year on this date a birthday ceremony takes place by her statue.

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Olá Sergio,
uma escultura bonita essa, e você conseguiu um brilho, contraste e nitidez impressionante nela, gostei.
Parabéns e Abraço

Oi Sergio,
Já vi algumas fotos da Little Mermaid em Copanhagen. Não sabia que havia uma réplica aqui no Brasil.Uma beleza de escultura e de foto.
Abraços
Maria

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  • Stepan Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5261 W: 95 N: 4082] (27099)
  • [2008-10-10 13:07]

She looks so sad, so lonely... I like the way the statue looks human... Strange.
And you composed that well, with the off centering and the vegetal bokeh.
Well seen and done.
Stéphane

Great composition, all the elements in the background are well aligned... every branches of the trees seem to lead to the statue.

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