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The Green Fairy (Absinthe)
The inspiration of a 2010 Object by Alison
It will be introduced at SOFA New York, April 15, 2010

During the late 19^th Century Absinthe; a green liquor made from wormwood,
became a popular drink among artists and writers in the
Montmartre section of Paris
Frequenting bars with such colorful names as
“Chat noir”,  “Brassier des martyrs”, and “Café du Rat Mort”*
Famous impressionist, philosophers, and poets, gathered together to discuss art and politics.
The drink was known as “The Green Fairy” for its wild and seductive effects on the drinker.

This work is inspired by those afternoons and evenings spent whiling away the hours in such places.
I have taken the liberty to cross time and invite guest who may or may not have been
 in the presence of other guests in order to make a composite scene. 
Each guest is a miniature copy of their own self portrait (when available)
or a portrait of that person done by one of the artists depicted.

Alison Ruzsa
February 2010

* Black Cat,  Brasserie of the Martyrs, afé of the dead rat

Top images and scrolling down show the Artists depicted in Alison's Green Fairy
 

Valadon                     Toulouse-Lautrec             Matisse                   Rachilde

Wilde                               Cezanne                     Renoir                                Manet

       Gauguin                      Baudelaire                               Hemingway
 

 Picasso                            Bernhardt                Verlaine   Rimbaud