{"id":27177,"date":"2025-03-16T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27177"},"modified":"2025-06-28T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:55:25","slug":"art-black-n-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27177","title":{"rendered":"ART\/FiLM: Black n\u2019 White\/Primrose Path, 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two new pieces\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I thought I should try doing some black and white stuff. It\u2019s kind of nice to limit the palette. I\u2019m still mining Picasso, as ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meantime we\u2019re watching – rather aptly – an old black and white movie, The Primrose Path<\/em>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really enjoyed this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ginger Rogers is Ellie May, and Joel McCrea is Ed. Ellie May, a young innocent tomboy, is daughter to two generations of hooker. She meets Ed, falls in love, and gets married. But her family troubles follow, and blight things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gramps (Henry Travers), Ellie May & Ed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ed abandons Ellie May. Ellie May\u2019s alcoholic father, Homer, accidentally shoots Mamie, his wife\/Ellie May\u2019s mother. Ellie May seems doomed to follow the path of her female forbears\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately things turn out for the good, ultimately. I do like a nice old fashioned happy ending. Oh\u2026 and I don\u2019t<\/em> mean the type of happy ending associated with Ellie\u2019s forbears profession. I mean the more \u2018innocent\u2019 kind\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BACK TO ART\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have to confess that I really love these two pieces. Are they just studies? Or are they something in their own right? I\u2019ve no idea! And that\u2019s fine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also feel that there\u2019s lots of mileage in this direction. So I hope to keep producing stuff in this vein. And I hope I can transfer such ideas to larger format \u2018proper\u2019 paintings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We shall see\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I should try doing some black and white stuff. It\u2019s kind of nice to limit the palette. I\u2019m still mining Picasso, as ever. Meantime we\u2019re watching – rather aptly – an old black and white movie, The Primrose Path, Ginger Rogers is Ellie May, and Joel McCrea is Ed. Ellie May, a young … <\/p>\n

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