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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |
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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris]] |
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| Name = Marilyn Manson |
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| Birth_name = Brian Hugh Warner |
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| Born = {{birth date and age|1969|1|5}} <br> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Canton, Ohio]] |
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| Instrument = [[Singer|Vocals]]<br>[[Guitar]]<br>[[Keyboards]] |
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| Genre = [[Alternative metal]]<br>[[Industrial rock]]<br>[[Hard rock]] |
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| Occupation = [[Singer-songwriter]], [[artist]] |
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| Years_active = [[1989]] – present |
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| Label = [[Nothing Records|Nothing]]<br />[[Interscope Records|Interscope]] |
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| Associated_acts = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]<br /> [[Mrs. Scabtree]] |
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'''Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux''' ([[May 11]], [[1827]], [[Valenciennes]] –[[October 12]], [[1875]], [[Courbevoie]]) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under [[François Rude]]. Carpeaux won the [[Prix de Rome]] in [[1854]], and moving to [[Rome]] to find inspiration, he there studied the works of [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]], [[Donatello]] and [[Andrea del Verrocchio|Verrocchio]]. Staying in Rome from [[1854]] to [[1861]], he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of [[baroque art]]. In [[1861]] he made a bust of [[Mathilde Bonaparte|Princess Mathilde]], and this later brought him several commissions from [[Napoleon III]]. He worked at the pavilion of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], and the [[Opéra Garnier]]. His group La Danse (the Dance, [[1869]]), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency. |
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'''Brian Hugh Warner''' (born [[January 5]], [[1969]]), better known by his [[stage name]] '''Marilyn Manson''', is a musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the [[Marilyn Manson (band)|band that bears the same name]]. His stage name was formed from the names [[Marilyn Monroe|''Marilyn'' Monroe]] and [[Charles Manson|Charles ''Manson'']], showing what he considered the ultimate and most disturbing dualism of American culture. However, many consider him the most awesome vampire in America, excluding the only emperor of America, Joshua Norton. (see emperor Joshua A. Norton). Of course, he is considered being elected for emperor when comes out of hiding. |
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He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of [[Asia]], [[Europe]], [[North America|America]] and [[Africa]], and it was [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin. |
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==Early life== |
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Manson was born in [[Canton, OH]] to Hugh and Barbra Warner as an only child. He attended Heritage Christian School in Canton, a private school serving grades 1-8, and later [[GlenOak High School]], also in Canton. He was raised as an [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopalian]]. <ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001504/bio IMDB profile]</ref> |
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This church is, although generally unknown, the reason his skin turned that weird color. Christ compells vampires... |
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==Career== |
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In 1990, Warner was a college student working toward a [[journalism]] degree, and gaining experience in the field by writing music articles for a South Florida lifestyle magazine, ''25th Parallel'' where he was able to meet several of the musicians to whom his own band would later be compared, including [[My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult]] and [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. |
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== Sculptures by Carpeaux == |
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===Music=== |
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{{mainarticle|Marilyn Manson (band)}} |
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After forming a band called Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids in 1989, he continued to perform and release cassettes — shortening their name to Marilyn Manson in 1992 — until the summer of 1993, when the band drew the attention of [[Trent Reznor]], who at the time had just founded his own record label, [[Nothing Records]]. Three of the band's albums have been awarded platinum certification and three more have been awarded gold, and the band has seen three of its releases debut in the top ten, including two number-one albums. |
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* Ugolin et ses fils - [[Ugolino della Gherardesca|Ugolino]] and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])[[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000009025.html]] with versions in other museums including the [[Musée d'Orsay]] |
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===Film and television=== |
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* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]]) |
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Manson's first film role was in 1997, as a [[pornographic actor]] in [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Lost Highway]]''. Since then he has appeared in a variety of minor roles and cameos, including ''[[Party Monster (2003 film)|Party Monster]]'', based on the the murder of Angel Melendez by [[Michael Alig]]; former love interest [[Rose McGowan]]'s 1998 film ''[[Jawbreaker (film)|Jawbreaker]]''; [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]]'s, [[2004 in film|2004]] film ''[[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things]]''; ''[[Rise: Blood Hunter|Rise]]''; and ''[[The Hire: Beat The Devil]]'', the sixth installment in the [[BMW films|BMW Films]] series. He appeared as himself in [[Michael Moore]]'s political documentary ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' discussing the motivations of the perpetrators and allegations that his music was somehow a factor. He has apppared in [[animation|animated]] form in ''[[Clone High]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]'' and participated in several episodes of the [[MTV]] series ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]''; he often performed the voice for his claymated puppet, and contributed the song "[[Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes]]" to the soundtrack album. |
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* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]] |
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* Girl with Shell |
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* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]] |
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==Neapolitan Fisherboy== |
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In July 2005, Manson told ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine that he was shifting his focus from music to filmmaking - "I just don't think the world is worth putting music into right now. I no longer want to make art that other people--particularly record companies--are turning into a product. I just want to make art." |
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He is currently working on his directorial debut, ''[[Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll]],'' In the film Manson plays the role of [[Lewis Carroll]], author of ''[[Alice In Wonderland]]''. Rather than a web-only release, Manson decided to give the $4.2 million budget film a conventional cinema release in mid-2007. The film will have an original music soundtrack with previously unreleased songs. <ref>[http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=15724_0_2_0_C/ Marilyn Manson announces details first low budget film]</ref> |
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Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of ''Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille'', the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the [[French Academy]] while a student in [[Rome]]. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for [[Napoleon III]]'s empress, [[Eugénie de Montijo|Eugènie]]. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]] |
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===Art=== |
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Manson began his career as a watercolor painter in 1999 when he made five-minute concept pieces and sold them to drug dealers. {{Fact|date=June 2007}} On September 13-14, 2002, his first show, The Golden Age of Grotesque, was held at the [[Los Angeles]] Contemporary Exhibitions Centre. Reactions to his paintings was largely positive with one critic comparing them to [[Egon Schiele]]’s pieces and describing them as ‘heartfelt’ and ‘sincerely painted’.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} [[Art in America]] liked them to the works of a ‘psychiatric patient given materials to use as therapy’.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} Others saw less merit in the works stating that the value was only ‘in the celebrity’.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} In September 14-15, 2004, Manson held a second exhibition on the first night in Paris and the second in Berlin. the show was named ‘Trismegistus’ which was also the title of the centre piece of the exhibit – a large three headed Christ painted onto an antique wood panel.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} |
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Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study. |
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On October 31, 2006, Manson opened his own art gallery, The [[Celebritarian Corporation]] Gallery of Fine Art in Los Angeles for which his third exhibition was the inaugural show. From April 2-17, 2007, Manson's recent works were on show at the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary in [[Florida]]. |
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Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to [[Naples]]. |
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===Video Games=== |
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Manson made an appearance in the video game ''[[Area 51 (first-person shooter)|Area 51]]'' as an ancient and powerful [[Greys|Grey Alien]]. His likeness is also featured on the ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch (video game)|Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' video game (2003). {{Fact|date=June 2007}} |
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==Marriage to Dita Von Teese== |
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Manson and [[Dita Von Teese]], a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress, started dating on Manson's 32nd birthday (January 5, 2001), and Manson proposed three years later on [[22 March]] [[2004]]. On [[3 December]] [[2005]] (court documents say [[28 November]]), the couple were married in a non-denominational ceremony at [[Gurteen Castle]] in Kilsheelan, [[County Tipperary]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], the home of artist, [[Gottfried Helnwein]]. The wedding was officiated by [[surrealist]] film director and comic book writer [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]]. <ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1137134,00.html http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1137134,00.html]</ref> |
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On [[January 30]], 2007 Manson and Von Teese split after her filing for divorce due to "irreconcilable differences".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6236663.stm Rock star Manson set to divorce]</ref> ET.com and ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' claimed that Manson was having an extramarital affair with 19-year-old actress [[Evan Rachel Wood]], who is to co-star in his upcoming horror film ''[[Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll]]''. |
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<ref>[http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/38295/ Marilyn Manson's Alleged Affair]</ref><ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20007918,00.html Marilyn Manson Dating Evan Rachel Wood]</ref> The relationship was confirmed by Von Teese in an interview with Britain's [[Sunday Telegraph]], "I get the impression he thinks I was unsupportive. But the truth is I wasn't supportive of his lifestyle, and someone else came along who was."<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/04/22/stdita122.xml&page=3 Educating Dita]</ref> Manson's alcohol abuse and distant behavior were also cited as cause for the split.<ref>[http://www.spin.com/features/news/2007/01/070105_marilyn/ Splitsville for Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese]</ref> Manson is reportedly fighting for custody of the couple's two cats.<ref>[http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092007/gossip/pagesix/a_real_catfight_pagesix_.htm A Real Catfight!]</ref> |
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On May first of this year Manson and Dita signed papers for their divorce. Manson is currently seeing Evan Rachel Wood, who is 18 years his junior. |
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==Lawsuits== |
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*In a civil battery suit, David Diaz, a security officer from a concert in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] on [[October 27]], [[2000]], sued for $75,000 in a Minneapolis federal court.<ref>{{cite news |
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|author = Gustafson, Paul |
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|title = No verdict yet in Marilyn Manson trial |
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|work = [[Star Tribune]] |
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|date = [[2003-09-06]] |
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|page = 9B |
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |
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|author = O'Hara, Sean |
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|title = Manson's latest hip record |
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|work = [[The Daily Mirror]] |
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|date = [[2001-12-07]] |
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|page = 14 |
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}}</ref> The federal court jury found in Manson's favor.<ref>{{cite news |
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|author = Smyntek, John |
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|title = Names & faces |
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|work = [[Detroit Free Press]] |
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|date = [[2003-09-10]] |
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*In a civil suit presented by [[Oakland County]], [[Michigan]], Manson was charged with [[sexual misconduct]] against another security officer, Joshua Keasler, during a concert in [[Clarkston, Michigan]] on [[July 30]], [[2001]]. Oakland County originally filed assault & battery and criminal sexual misconduct charges,<ref>{{cite news |
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|author = Potts, Laura |
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|title = Manson charged with assault |
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|work = [[South Bend Tribune]] |
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|date = [[2001-08-17]] |
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|page = A2 |
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}}</ref> but the judge reduced the latter charge to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.<ref>{{cite news |
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|title = Judge rules rocker's act not a sexual one |
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|work = [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |
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|date = [[2002-01-02]] |
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}}</ref> Manson pleaded [[nolo contendere|no contest]] to the reduced charges, paid a $4,000 fine,<ref>{{cite news |
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|title = Marilyn Manson ordered to pay fine for assault |
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|work = [[National Post]] |
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|date = [[2002-06-20]] |
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}}</ref> and later settled the lawsuit under undisclosed terms.<ref>{{cite news |
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|author = Derakhshani, Tirdad |
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|title = Marilyn Manson gyration suit is settled |
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|work = [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |
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|date = [[2004-02-19]] |
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*On [[April 2]], [[2002]] Maria St. John filed in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing Manson of providing her daughter, [[Jennifer Syme]], with cocaine and instructing her to drive while under the influence.<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453344/20020409/story.jhtml MTV news April 9, 2002]</ref> |
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==Trivia== |
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Manson was given the title of "Reverend Manson" by [[Church of Satan]] founder, [[Anton LaVey]]. |
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==Major label discography== |
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[[Image:LARGE eat me drink me cover.jpg|thumb|right|Cover of ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]'', 2007]] |
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{{main|Marilyn Manson discography}} |
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*''[[Portrait of an American Family]]'' ([[1994]]) |
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*''[[Smells Like Children]]'' ([[1995]]) |
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*''[[Antichrist Superstar]]'' ([[1996]]) |
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*''[[Remix and Repent]]'' ([[1997]]) |
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*''[[Mechanical Animals]]'' ([[1998]]) |
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*''[[The Last Tour on Earth]]'' ([[1999]]) |
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* ''[[Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)]]'' ([[2000]]) |
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*''[[The Golden Age of Grotesque]]'' ([[2003]]) |
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*''[[Lest We Forget (album)|Lest We Forget]]'' ([[2004]]) |
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*''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]'' ([[2007]]) |
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==Filmography== |
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*''[[Lost Highway]]'' ([[1997]]) |
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*''[[Spawn (film)|Spawn]]'' ([[1997]]) |
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*''[[Jawbreaker (film)|Jawbreaker]]'' ([[1999]]) |
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*''[[Clone High]]'' ([[21st Century|2000]]) |
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*''[[From Hell]]'' ([[soundtrack|score]], [[2001]]) |
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*''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]'' (score, 2001) |
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*''[[Resident Evil (movie)|Resident Evil]]'' (score, [[2002]]) |
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*''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' (interview, 2002) |
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*''[[The Hire: Beat The Devil]]'' ([[2003]]) |
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*''[[Party Monster (2003 film)|Party Monster]]'' (2003) |
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*''[[Doppelherz]]'' (director, 2003) |
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*''[[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things]]'' ([[2004]]) |
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*''[[Living Neon Dreams]]'' ([[2006]]) |
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*''[[Rise (film)|Rise]]'' (2006) |
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*''[[Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll]]'' (acting, directing, writing, score, 2007) |
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==Autobiography== |
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* ''[[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]]'' ([[1998]]) |
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==Books== |
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* ''[[Marilyn Manson Murders]] by [[Pastor Paul Sherman]], ISBN 1419631780'' ([[Summer 2006]]) |
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* ''[[Marilyn Manson Kills]] by [[Danny Jason Jameson]], ISBN 1419644459'' ([[Summer 2006]]) |
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* ''[[Marilyn Manson Destroys]] by [[Jennifer Sherman]], ISBN 1419667327'' ([[July 2007]]) |
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==References== |
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{{wikiquote|Marilyn Manson}} |
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*[http://www.marilynmanson.com/ Manson's Official Website] |
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*[http://www.marilynmansonartworkonline.com/ Marilyn Manson Artwork Online] |
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*{{imdb name|id=0001504|name=Marilyn Manson}} |
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*{{nndb name | id=596/000022530/ | name=Marilyn Manson}} |
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*[http://www.VampireFreaks.com/marilynmanson Manson's Official VampireFreaks] |
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*[http://androgynous.org/mm Marilyn Manson Fanlisting] |
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*[http://www.marilynmansonmurders.com/ Marilyn Manson Trilogy Series, Research and Documentary] |
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*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=jean+baptiste+carpeaux&operator=AND&nbToDisplay=5&langue=fr A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)] |
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{{Marilyn Manson}} |
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*[http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005511_oeuvre_1.html A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French;] it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page) |
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*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations] |
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861 he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. He worked at the pavilion of Flora, and the Opéra Garnier. His group La Danse (the Dance, 1869), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.
He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, and it was Emmanuel Frémiet who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.
Sculptures by Carpeaux
- Ugolin et ses fils - Ugolino and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)[[1]] with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay
- The Dance (commissioned for the Opera Garnier)
- Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - Neapolitan Fisherboy - in the Louvre, Paris [[2]]
- Girl with Shell
- Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes
Neapolitan Fisherboy
Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugènie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to Naples.
External links
- A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)
- A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French; it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
- A page analysing Carpeaux's Ugolino, with numerous illustrations