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Read a blog post about making my giant puppet for last year's Beltane.
It's designed to foreshorten a little - the head and shoulders are to a noticeably smaller scale than the buttocks and legs, to give an overall effect of towering even more than it really does.
Eventually I attached a human-scale mask to it, which was really a bit too small for the head; I decided to make it explicitly a mask, hung on by string, so it didn't need to be to scale, but I still rather wish I'd made it a little bigger.
When I took it out later for the Leith Festival, I did in fact make a bigger mask for it.
Bedford Bears hand puppet designed by me many years ago.
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Wall-e found a little knit puppet somewhere in the house and put on a show for some of his lego friends today. They were quite amused with his comedy act.
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Mbah Brambang, a figure who has been making paper puppets since 1965.
Water puppetry – known in Vietnam as Múa rối nước, meaning ‘making puppets dance on water’ – is a Vietnamese tradition steeped in history, folklore and mystery. To this day, when visitors to Hanoi flock to the main theatre to experience the unusual art, it isn’t known how the little figures are mastered so seamlessly by hidden puppeteers.
The art dates back to the 11th century on the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam, when rice farmers began to craft their puppets and create shows to entertain their family and locals once the difficult harvest season had finished. They also believed the shows kept the naughty spirits distracted from any mischief making, which could harm their crops.
The farmers built pagodas above their rice paddies and held community festival shows there to show off their creations and well-practised puppeteering skills. It’s thought that the water aspect came in when large floods hit the rice paddies at Red River Delta and farmers adapted their conventional puppetry, operating the wooden figures from waist-deep water. Thus, the liquid stage – which hides the puppeteers, helps with acoustics and gives the show a mystical shimmer – was born.
These people in their colourful outfits played the music that accompanied the show
Puppet Master, A person that acts in secret to control another. Flickr Friday theme. Dictionary. Hummmm Cookie is looking something up. 😁
Paul Klee exhibition, The puppets theater of his son, Felix Klee.
2017 ©MichelleCourteau
L to R: Crowned Poet and Ghost of scarecrow, 1923.
from the series; broken doll
model: emma
no photo manipulation on emma, only the strings added afterwards
Just too weird to pass up. He may be gazing down at the unsuspecting public as they file in to get their shot of caffine unaware that at any moment shrapnel could explode around them... all brought on by the jolly drunk puppet from above.
Second floor above Sweetwaters Cafe in Royal Oak, MI.
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Marioneta
Definición: Figurilla hecha de diversos materiales (madera, pasta, trapo, metal, plástico, etc.) que manipulada gracias a un conjunto de hilos o cuerdas cobra movimiento. Está considerada por los profesionales, estudiosos y artesanos del ramo, el títere más difícil de manipular y con una de las técnicas más antiguas, teniendo su origen en la marioneta de barra y a pesar de que "como muñeco totalmente movido por hilos sólo aparece a partir del siglo XVIII".
Historia
Grecia, Roma y Edad Media
Grabado del siglo XII del Códice Hortus Deliciarum (ca. 1150) de Herrad von Landsberg.
La técnica de muñecos manipulados con hilos era común entre los griegos, que llamaban a esas figuritas neurospasta, palabra que viene a significar "objeto puesto en movimiento por hilos", expresando así su naturaleza. Aristóteles habla de ellos cuando dice que si "aquellos que hacen mover figuritas de madera tiran el hilo que corresponde a éste o al otro de sus miembros, éste obedece al momento, y se ve así cómo mueven la cabeza, los ojos, las manos, de modo que parece una persona viva". También, ya en la cultura romana, habla de ellos Horacio.
La presencia de muñecos movidos con cuerdas en algunos primitivos grabados europeos sugiere cierta posibilidad de transición entre las máscaras de las farsas atelanas de los romanos y la marioneta medieval. El erudito titiritero cubano Freddy Artiles menciona como uno de los más antiguos, un grabado del siglo XII del Códice Hortus Deliciarum (ca. 1150) del abate Herrad von Landsberg, en el que aparecen dos jóvenes jugando con marionetas de hilos simulando guerreros que pelean sobre una mesa en una justa imaginaria (una puesta en escena gráfica de la técnica de los bavastels). También menciona Artiles otro grabado que muestra el taller de un titiritero fabricando los muñecos y concluye que aquellas figurillas con el cuerpo entero y articulaciones sencillas podían considerarse herederas de las marionetas romanas.
Títeres
Los artistas que construían y manejaban los muñecos recibieron en España el nombre de titereros (así se lee en El Quijote) o titiriteros. Como otros cómicos de la legua actuaban por lo general al aire libre, en corrales, o en los interiores de los mesones. En el Siglo de Oro español la palabra titiritero amplió su campo semántico y empezó a aludir no solo a los artistas de marionetas sino también a los saltimbanquis, acróbatas, prestidigitadores y volatineros. Ello produjo una serie de connotaciones negativas para el término "titiritero" que quedó asociado a aquellos que viven en los caminos y viven de sus diversas artes en el mundo de la farándula. También se les confundía o asimilaba en muchos casos con el charlatán. La figura del charlatán del siglo XVIII es un falso médico, con remedios falsos que lo curan todo. Encandilaban con su charla a los espectadores, tanto en espacios abiertos como en los salones donde eran invitados; estas personas tenían a gala el desprecio de los conocimientos antiguos y aseguraban que los suyos, más modernos, eran los que tenían valor. Eran profesionales de la palabra y con ella embaucaban y deslumbraban a su público. Hasta tal punto se apoderaron de la palabra títere que con ellos surgió la titeretería, el arte o la ciencia de los charlatanes.
Cervantes se refiere a esta forma teatral en dos ocasiones: en El retablo de las maravillas, entremés de 1615, y en los capítulos XXV y XXVI de la segunda parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha, publicada aquel mismo año.
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Marionette / Puppets
A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and on television. The attachment of the strings varies according to its character or purpose.
History
Ancient times
Ancient Greek terracotta puppet dolls, 5th–4th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Main article: Puppetry
Puppetry is an ancient form of performance. Some historians[who?] claim that they predate actors in theatre.[citation needed] There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000 BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to act kneading bread and other string-controlled objects. Wire-controlled, articulated puppets made of clay and ivory have been found in Egyptian tombs. Marionette puppetry was used to display rituals and ceremonies using these string-operated figurines back in ancient times and is still used today.
Puppetry was practiced in Ancient Greece and the oldest written records of puppetry can be found in the works of Herodotus and Xenophon, dating from the 5th century BC. The Greek word translated as "puppet" is "νευρόσπαστος" (nevróspastos), which literally means "drawn by strings, string-pulling", from "νεῦρον" (nevron), meaning either "sinew, tendon, muscle, string", or "wire", and "σπάω" (spáō), meaning "draw, pull".
Aristotle (384–322 BC) discusses puppets in his work On the Motion of Animals:
The movements of animals may be compared with those of automatic puppets, which are set going on the occasion of a tiny movement; the levers are released and strike the twisted strings against one another.
Archimedes is known to have worked with marionettes.[citation needed] Plato's work also contains references to puppetry. The Iliad and the Odyssey were presented using puppetry. The roots of European puppetry probably extend back to the Greek plays with puppets played to the "common people" in the 5th century BC. By the 3rd century BC these plays would appear in the Theatre of Dionysus at the Acropolis.
In ancient Greece and Rome clay and ivory dolls, dated from around 500 BC, were found in children's tombs. These dolls had articulated arms and legs, some of which had an iron rod extending up from the tops of their heads. This rod was used to manipulate the doll from above, exactly as is done today in Sicilian puppetry. A few of these dolls had strings in place of the rods. Some researchers believe these ancient figures were mere toys and not puppets due to their small size.
The Indian word sutradhara, from sutra, refers to the show-manager of theatrical performances (or a puppet-player), and also means literally "string-puller" or "string-holder".
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