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Artist
and model: Adit Dita Daniel
Double look
צילום מרדכאי מוטי דהן |
אבי א.ג.מ
שיווק ומכירות באינטרנט
הודעות
לעיתונות
הודעות לתקשורת
מאמרים, כתבות מעניינות בנושאי
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Artist and
model: Adit Dita Daniel
The milky way
צילום יובל דביר
אטמוספירה
גיליון מספר 114 פברואר 2008
Atmosphere AL –EL magazine.
February 2008
Marilyn Monroe: The Red Velvet
Dita Daniel is about to
recreate Marilyn Monroe's first photo series, the one
that launched her career, as well as Playboy Magazine's.
The result will be a documentary film and an exhibition
that will be presented in Israel and around the world.
Camera-front nudity is not new to Daniel, artist, model,
actress and homeopathic healer, who uses her body as a
basis for her paintings By Ran Ziv
On my way to the interview with Adit (Dita) Daniel (43),
I heard on the radio a program dedicated to the concept
of a "woman". How symbolic that this concept was to be
the very focus of our conversation: Daniel, an artist,
an actress and a colorful model, who also deals with
homeopathic healing, Tai Chi and Chi Kong, is soon about
to cope with the image of the mythological woman,
Marilyn Monroe. Nearly 60 years after Monroe's first
nude photo series, which launched her career and acted
as a trigger for the sexual revolution of the 50's in
the USA and across the world, Daniel will recreate the
"Red Velvet" series. The shooting will take place in the
very same studios, by the son of the original
photographer, Tom Kelley Jr. The recreation will be a
part of a documentary film that Daniel is preparing and
the photo series will be presented afterwards in
exhibitions in Israel and in California. |
Artist
and model: Adit Dita Daniel
Talking with God
צילום יובל דביר |
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Artist
and model: Adit Dita Daniel
Communication with nature
צילום עוזי אמיר |
Marilyn Monroe's
Picture
At age 6 Daniel saw Marilyn Monroe's photo for the first
time and was fascinated. It was the photo called
"Position No. 1" which also appeared on the cover of
Playboy Magazine's first issue ever, in 1953. "She
mesmerized me" says Daniel. At the time, her parents ran
a prestigious women's clothing shop in Holon, named
after her mother, Nina. "Mother was painting, sewing and
designing", she says, "so there were always magazines in
the house with pretty models, and I would sit and leaf
through them for hours. I liked the beauty, the
colorfulness and the harmony". And then she saw Marilyn
Monroe.
When Daniel was 10 years old, her father, Moshe, an
artistic carpenter, received a nude painting from one of
his customers, painter Ester Peretz-Arad: "It was the
first nude in our house. I realized immediately that the
language of nudity was the language of art." At age 6
Daniel had been diagnosed as a gifted child in the areas
of art. Following the diagnosis her parents sent her to
study in a special art classes for gifted children in
the Tel-Aviv Museum. |
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From there she continued on to “Thelma Yelin”, High
School for the Arts.
"They had great expectations of me, and I also possessed
a lot of curiosity and inquisitiveness. On one hand, I
was shy, introspective, ugly and fat. I began suffering
from eating disorders at a young age. On the other hand,
I posed nude for the first time at age 14. I wanted to
study art from both ends, both as an artist and as a
model."
Daniel continued to meet with nudity along her career,
and this interaction helped crystallize her philosophy,
related to Adam and Eve and their banishment from The
Garden of Eden. "I was bothered by the existence of evil
in the world, and especially by the question of why the
woman is being punished until today. It seems we are to
blame for what happened to mankind. I could not accept
the idea that our whole existence as women is the
embodiment of evil and that it is all cast upon us.
I, for one, feel wholesome and that there is no evil in
me. So I took my clothes off and started taking photos
of me. I feel too transparent as it is. I felt I didn't
need dividers between me and the rest of the world, and
certainly not between myself and God. I am not
religious, but I do believe a high-level intelligence
exists in the cosmos, not necessarily a divinity
according to Judaism." |
Artist
and model: Adit Dita Daniel
Reflection of the sea |
Marilyn Monroe's
Energy
Daniel began painting Eve, Venus and Aphrodite. In her
eyes they, just like Marilyn Monroe, represent the
progression of the same woman and symbolize
unconditional love, beauty and harmony. In her opinion,
they are also related to the "Golden Section", that
mystical mathematical relationship (of about 1.618) used
in art and in architecture since the time of Classic
Greece. Many see in its very existence proof that the
world is a planned act of creation. Some refer to it,
since the Renaissance period, as the "Divine
Proportion".
She considers herself as a Renaissance-world painter.
"In those days, a painter could also be a doctor and a
poet. They understood that in the mind of an artist like
Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo could reside several
different skills simultaneously. The thread uniting all
those skills is art."
Why should a nude soul be painted?
"The by-product reaction to art is healing. It is the
soul passing. Our aspiration is to return to Eden. The
original sin is referring to the shell, to nudity. In my
paintings there is no evil, but reality as it was before
sin and guilt and sexual lust, before the appearance of
destructive lust."
Marilyn Monroe's
Place
For years Daniel didn't dare face the myth of Marilyn
Monroe, but three years ago, she finally ripened. She
came to Gary Saal from California, who holds the rights
to Monroe's photo series with
Tom
Kelley Jr., and asked permission to re-shoot the "Red
Velvet" series.
"Many models and actresses came to us over the years
with similar offers", says Saal in a telephone interview
from his home in the US, "but we never agreed. When Dita
called me, I sensed it was something special, that she
was not simply attempting to jump start her career like
the others. She convinced me with her passion and her
seriousness. She comes to the project out of respect to
Monroe and her art. As far as we are concerned, this is
the last chance to try and recreate the photo series, as
we do not intent to allow it ever again."
According to the plan, Daniel is supposed to fly to Los
Angeles in the next few months, with a photo shooting
and filming crew, and shoot a new photo series, of which
some will be copies of the originals and some will
continue along the same line.
The filming crew will document the shooting process and
the film produced will later be aired, both in Israel
and across the world. Next year, 60 years after the
original shootings, a combined exhibition will take
place in Israel in which photos of both series, the
original and the recreated one, will be presented.
Gary Saal, What will you gain from the project? "We do
not stand to gain from it. We will just give her the
opportunity to present her perspective on Marilyn
Monroe's works. It is her project and it has a great
gain potential, and we are only cooperating." At the end
of the interview, in the same symbolic way in which it
had begun, Daniel told me she was invited, later, to a
pub named……. Norma Jeane.
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Artist
and model: Adit Dita Daniel
Beyond the ocean
צילום יובל דביר
For a resume in the art field
and more images of
Dita Daniel
To read about Dita Daniel and
the Marilyn Monroe
Red velvet
recreation
Copy right and ownership on
the painting and photos belong to Adit Dita
Daniel
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art and market it in the world |
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