Stories You Were Told

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Tu Anh Dinh
This is an exhibition of art I created over the summer of 2010. Through funding from the Kaempfer Grant, I was able to pursue my interests in both portraiture and illustration by way of fairy tales. The stories featured here find their origins in France, Germany, and Italy, and they range from the familiar to the obscure.Typically in fairy tales the title characters themselves are never granted much depth. Each is given a role to fulfill, and faces blur. Therefore, I wanted to focus on the characters who have survived over three thousand years of oral and written tradition, and bring to light the enormity of their staying power through the stories you were told.


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Brother and Sister

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King Thrushbeard