{"id":1526,"date":"2024-01-27T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2024-01-27T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T13:03:59","slug":"the-roofs-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/the-roofs-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"The roofs of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 12 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vision of the roofs of Paris takes me directly back to my youth. I’m in London and I’m watching a film that has scarred me for life: Mary Poppins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A quick synopsis: we\nare in the early 1900s, in London, as well, in a middle-class family,\nthe Banks family. Mr Banks is a banker and Mrs Banks is an active\nsuffragette. They have two children Jane and Michael. They are\nlooking for a new nurse. It\u2019s Mary Poppins who responds to the ad.\nThis is how this crazy adventure in a wonderful universe begins.\nAmong the important characters, there is also Bert, the chimney\nsweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I still widely\nrefer to this film that I loved. Mary Poppins’ famous bag when she\nunpacks her things in front of the completely amazed children. I\nadmit to having a particular yellow bag, which could be one of hers!\nBesides, I named it my Mary Poppins bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\nher magic word\u2026\nshall we talk\nabout it? The famous \u201csupercalifragilisticexpialidocious\u201d\nthat I learned back then and never forgot. And before writing this\nstory, I was singing it\nmy heart out! I\nhave used it often… but it never worked,\nto be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\nBert, the chimney sweep with his\nface black with soot, who moves from roof to roof and shows Mary the\ncity from a completely different perspective. I would have followed\nthem willingly. And today, I would invite them to take\na look at Paris by\nnight, Paris by day, Paris under the sun, Paris in the rain on the\nroofs of Paris, with its slippery or burning slates. Perfect views\nfor telling stories while spying on people in their homes through\ntheir windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And last but not\nleast, Bert’s colorful chalk drawings on the gray London sidewalk.\nThey are all magical landscapes that Mary Poppins brings to life by\njumping on them with both feet. And then the drawing becomes reality.\nMary Poppins, Bert and the children then move into a completely\ndifferent dimension from the chimney sweep’s imagination. This point\nof the movie left its mark on me and undoubtedly guided me towards\nthe path of painting. I would sometimes like to physically enter some\nof my paintings. Failing that, my mind and soul visit them regularly.\nThat\u2019s what my stories are for. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 12 inch \u2013 Unique work This vision of the roofs of Paris takes me directly back to my youth. I’m in London and I’m watching a film that has scarred me for life: Mary Poppins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}