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Der Struwwelpeter (Cry Baby series)

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Description

This painting is inspired by the drawing Baba Yaga by the Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is an ogress who steals, cooks, and eats her victims, usually children. ⁠ The image depicts me scaring my former partner away. He is seen very tiny in there, almost insignificant or at least I was wishing he was at the time. The painting called Der Struwwelpeter, comes from the title of a famous German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. ⁠ ⁠ My former partner was Austrian, and consequently, I was very inspired by Germanic stories, especially in the realm of children's books as sadly, we had the emotional intelligence of a toddler back when we were dating.⁠ ⁠ So, the story of Der Struwwelpeter, describes a boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular. He appears in this drawing barefoot, as he often liked to be. ⁠ This drawing was an attempt to heal from this pain that I was dragging along for nearly a year. In the image, I am naked and vulnerable rooted on the ground. With him, I had for the first time, the true desire of finally settling down and the result of my certainty in what I felt for him was met with him running for his life.⁠ Der Struwwelpeter (Cry Baby series) | 2021 | acrylic and watercolour on canvas | 15.5 x 22 cm ⁠

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der struwwelpeter

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myth

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i am the astra