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Gallery: Sylvia Plath’s Never-Before-Exhibited Drawings

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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.

[...] would have been Sylvia Plath‘s 79th birthday. In her honor, Flavorpill has posted up sixteen images from the book Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings and Dadamaino: [...]

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.

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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….

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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.

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[...] 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. Gallery: Sylvia Plath’s Never-Before-Exhibited Drawings [...]

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