I have always found the work of the illustrator fascinating in search of the best images for the current book. Because once he collects his notions after reading, he ends up awakening an imaginary that devastates even what was imagined by the creator of the narrative. I say this from my own experience because for some of my books like Lost legends or others.
In the case of Maria Hesse It seems the opposite case, the idea that an image is worth a thousand words taken to its maximum expression. A picture book It can be as intense, moving, disturbing, or exciting as the most elaborate of prose. And Hesse is about to demonstrate it through great works.
The most famous of the world famous or the most tormented souls in the realm of creation. The most representative and iconic of our civilization take a walk and let themselves be illustrated by this author determined to portray souls with their deformities, their beautiful decadence and their charm, in the style of the Dorian Gray that every character adored by the rest of the world lurks in privacy ...
Top 3 recommended books by María Hesse
Marilyn: A Biography
With the passage of time, all the edges of Marilyn turned totem have been revealed. Icon of sensuality but also of frivolity, of a singular feminism dedicated to the strange cause of the melancholic surrender of the personal to the image. From there, María Hesse is responsible for recovering the shocking beauty of women in essence. Of a person who, looking closely into the depths of her pupils, could discover the abyss that balanced everything, that valued her gift with condemnation.
He was one of the great icons of the XNUMXth century, the most popular face of all time. The general public fell in love with her, as well as filmmakers, writers or the president of the United States himself. However, she died alone and misunderstood at the age of thirty-six. Who really was Norma Jeane Baker? The best known actress in film history, the sex symbol of an entire era, the quintessential prototype of the silly blonde hid a person who is still a great unknown.
After making the hearts of Frida Kahlo and David Bowie blossom, discovering their most human side, María Hesse has made the soul of Marilyn Monroe blossom, a woman who, like so many of her contemporaries, blew up all the canons and deserves to be remembered, today more than ever, for her talent, her sensitivity, her intelligence and the barriers she broke.
Bowie: A Biography
It is curious how María Hesse already points out in the titles of her biography an essential aspect of every biographer. This is A biography, not the biography. Because surely no one ever knows the truth about the character. And the character himself may even idealize aspects of his life. In the worst case scenario, a character immersed in anxiety, revolutionary or mystical phases among glories may barely remember a couple of decades of excesses, and that is not an exaggeration...
Bowie is Bowie. About five hundred lives accompany his myth. David Bowie is much more than a singer who sold one hundred and thirty-six million records, much more than an artist who experimented with a multitude of styles and defined pop culture. As his biographer David Buckley put it, "he changed more lives than any other public figure." With his disturbing alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, and songs like "Starman" or "Space Oddity," he defied the rules of music and became an icon for his generation and a reference for present and future generations.
His long artistic career is closely linked to his personal biography. This book delves into all aspects of his life, his enigmas and anecdotes. Like a hieroglyph, Bowie is a mystery that we all want to unravel, and no one better than María Hesse, the author of the Frida phenomenon, to undertake this challenge. Today Bowie continues to fascinate more than ever.
Frida Kahlo. A biography
All the good thing we have left is childhood. Creating is childhood, music and cinema are childhood. Poetry is childhood loaded with the nostalgia of the unattainable. With this first biographical book of a painter, for whom the author expresses her admiration, even in the way she approaches her own work, María Hesse opened herself to the world in her way of telling stories from the perspective of essential characters who bear witness to the world. from his work.
Frida was more than pain and anguish. She wanted to be true to her overwhelming personality and became a lively artist. His painting is party, color, blood and life. She was a fighter who decided to take the world for a hat and a passionate woman who was not satisfied with being in the shadow of her great love, the painter Diego Rivera. Frida decided to live with intensity, both the misfortunes and the joys that existence brought her. Inspired by the experiences of the iconic Mexican painter, this book offers a beautiful illustrated walk through her life and work.
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