This
is a very difficult challenge - to draw the headlong plunge so it doesn't
look as if the figure is
floating
rising
disco
dancing
Several
myths and stories depend on the depiction of the Fall.
01.
from a French edition of de la Motte's Telemachus date
unknown 9 x 15cms
02. from
Joan Hassall's illustrations to RLS, The Child's Garden of Verse,
03. GUSTAVE
DORE'S illustration to Le Capitaine Fracasse, wood engraving
Paris 1881
04
Mon Journal December 1894 13 x 20 cms illustration by H.Gerbault
05. from an American insurance advert August 1955 and
probably the most artificial of all staging for the genre...He is nestled
into a step and kicking his arms and legs about. Difficult to register
falling with such a sharp focus. 05
shows the most incompetent image I have found of the act of falling,
all in the cause of Health and Safety, and the profit requiremnts of
the Insurance Industry.
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