Part I and and Part II of my La Belle et la Bête posts may be found HERE and HERE … Part III In Cocteau’s Words … … We need look no further than the director’s account for insights into how La Belle et … Continue reading
Beauty into Beast … Above: Marais and Cocteau on the Cote d’ Azur in 1939 … Below: Six years later, Marais becomes Cocteau’s Beast … … … Cocteau came across the young actor in 1937 when working with the student … Continue reading
Above: credit sequence for La Belle et la Bête, playfully chalked onto a blackboard by the cast and director. … I could write a book extolling Jean Cocteau’s magnificent La Belle et la Bête, but must confine myself instead to a … Continue reading
My current project to make a new illustrated edition of Beauty and the Beast for the publisher Design for Today, has been a strange and challenging one. The starting point had been the 1946 La Belle et la Bête by … Continue reading
Phil Cooper, Stephanie Redfern, Chloe Redfern, Anna Clucas, Charlotte Hill and Janet Kershaw: the paper puppets … Late in the day I’ve decided to dedicate a post to the paper puppets. These are not puppets modelled in papier mache, but … Continue reading
… It will come as no revelation to regular Artloggers that the film I love above all others is Jean Cocteau’s sublime La Belle et la Bête, as I’ve blogged extensively about it here in recent months. So It’s been in … Continue reading
Work on Beauty and Beast. Text by Olivia McCannon and illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. To be published by Design for Today in October 2021. Dissatisfaction is a part of the artist’s armoury of creativity. Without it, how would we ‘grow’ … Continue reading
I first saw Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film of La Belle et la Bête in the early 1960s. Before the age of video I recollected the film from that first, single viewing, for years running it over and over in my … Continue reading
From an Instagram conversation with artist, Dinny Pocock Dinny: It’s fascinating to see these (sketchbook) pages. By the naming of the characters it would seem – on the surface – ‘easier’ to portray the nature of the beast, but you … Continue reading
I’m happy to make the formal announcement that Olivia McCannon and I are currently collaborating on our exploration of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, which will be published by Joe Pearson at Design for Today. The project began … Continue reading
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