The title of this drawing is in fact the title of a poem written by a French poet : Guillaume Apollinaire (who is one of my favorite poets) and it can be translated by : "The sadness of a star" (but it's not good to translate poems!). The stars are black because I thought about this other poem written by Gérard de Nerval and intitled : "El Desdichado" --> especially this passage : Ma seule étoile est morte, et mon luth constellé/Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie (= "my only star is dead and my starry luth carry the black sun of the Melancholy"). Yes, you may say I'm in a poetic mood!
At first I just wanted to draw a melancholic ballerina (I love ballerinas!) but I added more and more elements and it came out like this. I hope you like this drawing. If I drew a balerina with stars this is because in France, the best ballerinas and dancers from the Opéra Garnier are called "Danseurs étoiles" (and I really like this expression, when I was a child I thought that they were called this way because they could dance in the sky among the stars!)
Texts which indirectly inspired me :
Tristesse d'une étoile
Une belle Minerve est l'enfant de ma tête
Une étoile de sang me couronne à jamais
La raison est au fond et le ciel est au faîte
Du chef où dès longtemps Déesse tu t'armais
C'est pourquoi de mes maux ce n'était pas le pire
Ce trou presque mortel et qui s'est étoilé
Mais le secret malheur qui nourrit mon délire
Est bien plus grand qu'aucune âme ait jamais celé
Et je porte avec moi cette ardente souffrance
Comme le ver luisant tient son corps enflammé
Comme au cur du soldat il palpite la France
Et comme au cur du lys le pollen parfumé
(Guillaume Apollinaire)
El Desdichado
Je suis le ténébreux le veuf, l'inconsolé,
Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie;
Ma seule étoile est morte, et mon luth constellé
Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
Dans la nuit du tombeau, toi qui m'as consolé,
Rends-moi le Pausilippe et la mer d'Italie,
La fleur qui plaisait tant à mon coeur désolé,
Et la treille où le pampre à la rose s'allie.
Suis-je Amour ou Phébus?... Lusignan ou Biron?
Mon front est rouge encore du baiser de la reine;
J'ai rêvé dans la grotte où nage la sirène...
Et j'ai deux fois vainqueur traversé l'Achéron:
Modulant tour à tour sur la lyre d'Orphée
Les soupirs de la sainte et les cris de la fée.
(Gérard de Nerval)
I LOVE THESE POEMS!!!!!!!
Copyrights
-I do not own these poems they belong to their respective authors.
-This illustration belong to me!
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