Spring and Lady in Red

by Aurelia Schanzenbacher

Title

Spring and Lady in Red

Artist

Aurelia Schanzenbacher

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Mixed Media - Mixed Media

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This painting was drawn with oil pastels then put through digital software to soften the colors and give it a translucent look. Original oil pastel is also available for purchase and on this FAA.

Spring is a time of rebirth. Historically, poets have written about the rebirth and beauty of Spring. One poet is Alice Moore Dunbar - Nelson who wrote a Sonnet about Spring, but was more comfortable writing mostly prose. She was a poet, essayist, diarist, and activist. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1800's. A writer of short stories, essays, and poems, Dunbar-Nelson was comfortable in many genres. One of the few female African American diarists of the early 20th century, she portrays the complicated reality of African American women and intellectuals.

SONNET : BY ALICE MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON

I had not thought of violets late,
The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feet
In wistful April days, when lovers mate
And wander through the fields in raptures sweet.
The thought of violets meant florists' shops,
And bows and pins, and perfumed papers fine;
And garish lights, and mincing little fops
And cabarets and soaps, and deadening wines.
So far from sweet real things my thoughts had strayed,
I had forgot wide fields; and clear brown streams;
The perfect loveliness that God has made,—
Wild violets shy and Heaven-mounting dreams.
And now—unwittingly, you've made me dream
Of violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam.

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