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Categories: Art, buzz Tags: Sylvia Plath
Tomorrow would have been Sylvia Plath’s 79th birthday, had she not committed suicide at age 30. Although the literary legend is best known for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar and the posthumously published collection of poetry Ariel, as her daughter Freida Hughes explains, “her passion for art permeated her short life.” After abandoning her vibrant, complex paintings made during her years as an art student for literature, Plath continued to draw compulsively and illustrate her writing, deriving pleasure and inspiration from the craft.
Now for the first time, 44 pen and ink drawings by Plath will be on view at the Mayor Gallery in London, November 2 through December 16. Among her subjects: a kiosk near the Louvre, huts of Cambridge, views of the Spanish countryside, and Parisian streets, as well as a few items intimately linked to her literary work, like a pair of patent leather shoes entitled The Bell Jar that she loving described in her novel of the same name. See a selection of the drawings from the Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings and Dadamaino: Volumes, spotted via Dangerous Minds, in our gallery.
Boat of Rock Harbour, Cap Cod. Image credit: Sylvia Plath. Courtesy Mayor Gallery. All images via the Telegraph.
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12 Responses
Hmmm…somthing of Wanda Gag.
It odd how jaunty they look, considering.
she didn’t do a drawing of a fig tree or a black bird did she? that would be insanely perfect for one of my tattoos i have planned.
obsessive rendering of details.
kind of goth & almost (in the rendering of trees) vanGogh-ish.
the boats without the sea, see more than you and i will ever…be
Beautiful!
No. 6 = Jon Hamm.
Well, I think it’s fairly obvious why these haven’t been seen before. Most of them are pretty bad. A couple are decent, but the rest look like uncolored coloring books.
all i’m seeing is Windows Phone ads… really annoying.
the exact precision, the patient beginnings, the careful attempts to see and render clearly, yet always from a certain distance–as we see in her earlier poems….
It’s funny how she will never know how small pieces of her life, in these beautiful little drawings, make us desperate for more of her.