The Sunday Surrealist artist Clovis Trouille (Dreams of Desire 8 (Oh! Calcutta! Calcutta!), Dreams of Desire 9 (Italian Nun Smoking A Cigarette) and Dreams of Desire 10 (Sisters of the Immaculate Silk Stockings) painted a number of canvases on the theme of his funeral. Mes Funerailles from 1940 is almost austere by the standards of Trouille’s overheated and frenzied oeuvre with its riot of colour and sleazy psycho-sexual fantasy.
Trouille brings into play the talents deployed in his day job as department store window dresser and mannequin restorer in the simple yet striking tableaux, bringing to the fore all the potential theatrically inherent in our own imagined funerals. As always with Trouille he dreams of that sensuality without censure that is only found in the imagination.
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Wow Mr. Cake! I love this painting!!!! Hmm.
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You can’t deny that I have taste of nothing else Miss Insidious
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Sunday Surrealist – what does that mean? Porcelain beauties, those shapely ladies. Love the ‘style’ -black stockings and high heels. It has me thinking about waxing, however…
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A Sunday painter or writer refers to an artist who just does it as a hobby, they have a job and only practise their craft on the week-ends-hence Sunday artist. The most famous example would be Henri Rousseau. Trouille is a fine Sunday painter-I love the style. Well fashions change but something’s never do
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Oh, that makes us Sunday writers, too. Good company then… That was too much information wasn’t it? 😉
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Kafka and Henry Green were part time writers as well. Painting has been a profession a lot longer than writing, which is a relatively new phenomenon, the 18th century. I shall past no remark…
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Not a profession, but an ancient vocation… the bard, the balladeer, poet, prophet, skald.
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True I was talking about the first professional writer who lived on the income earned by the pen. I think Dr Johnston was the first. Of course it has been a noble and ancient vocation since Odin or Hermes gave us the power of letters.
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I knew that’s what you meant
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I know you knew… I like to tease by being spiky. You know me
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Spike or death…
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I am not that bad, don’t forget I’m a piece of cake.
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Now I am teasing you. You are a layer cake, each section a different flavor, hidden beneath the icing
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It’s called frost….ing over here. Frosty the Snowman.
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You know you are just opening yourself up to more and sillier nicknames, mister…
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I know… I will cease and desist
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I need your expertise on a post I’m crafting for tomorrow. I’m emailing you…
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Ok grand so…I will do my best
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I do love the sensuality and playful, almost kinky imagination in these paintings.
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I would agree with you except I don’t think there is any almost about his kinkiness. Kinky is as kinky does.
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Agreed. It is more vintage sensuality
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Thank you, I like a bit of kink and Clovis is perfect.
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People’s imaginations are amazing. And then the talent to bring it to life. Are those two on the sides crying? They must have been so distraught they forgot to get dressed. 😉
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Yes it is Monsieur Trouille funeral after all, hence the big T in the centre of the sash. They are indeed very distraught, however I think the state of undress is to honour his last request.i really like his work, though the paintings I have featured out his more restrained paintings believe it or not.
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That makes more sense. I wonder how his actual funeral went… These are the tame ones? Omg, I must see the others!
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I will post about them shortly, however my next Dreams post will be another Delvaux (this one has witches!) and then a beautiful surrealist inspired nude photograph. Thanks Vic for the support.
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Ooh, witches! Fun. (Though I’m a wimp so hopefully it’s not scary 😁) And you’re very welcome. You always post interesting things.
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Thank you, no this will be more of the sexy witches line, though with a subtly mysterious atmosphere.
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I am thinking that his actual funeral wasn’t nearly as much fun.
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If there’s a heaven that he went to, he must’ve been disappointed.
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Hopefully he is dining with the Marquis De Sade at the best table in hell.
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I was not expecting you to end the sentence like that and it made me laugh out loud. 😄
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Well I am sure hell is more his speed really
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😄 yes
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I imagine him having a ball down there.
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Well, if there are nuns down there they are certainly smoking, carousing, and entertaining men.
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Very funny I like that
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I like the darkness of this painting. What a lovely mind Trouille must have had in order to dream this up. It almost looks as if you can see the universe from the casket, a window of sorts. I wonder why the women are covering their eyes. Beautiful and captivating painting Mr. Cake. ~ Miss Cranes
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I think it is their unbearable sadness at his passing. It is his imaginary funeral after all and indulgence is allowed.
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Hopefully his real funeral was modeled after this painting.
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One can only hope so
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That would be something.
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Astounding if it was…but at least in the imagination it came to pass
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How many people can say they attended their own funeral while alive?
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Well I think a lot of people do screen it in their heads.
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Simple yet striking. It certainly comes across like a wake-up slap.
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Thank you Roger glad you enjoyed. Trouille is always good for shock value.
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