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Eleanor Rigby

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Eleanor Rigby

Uploaded: May 23, 2008 15:14:02

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May 23, 2008

I really like this picture! Did you do it in a studio? I think it could use just a little less grain/noise. Very pretty! #927490

Dean Burke level-classic May 23, 2008

Ashley, thank you for taking a moment to comment on this picture.

Eleanor Rigby is a story composed into a song by the Bealtles. Her life was full of resrevations in contradiction with her true character who never realized the theology of divine love nor the grain of truth.

The noise represents the intense and prolonged discomfort that she was suffering from...............Dean #5968646

paola A. Jofre May 23, 2008

Outstanding job Dean!!! Beautiful model,lighting and treatment applied !! :) #5968706

May 23, 2008

That's really cool... I do know the song you are talking about. But like most people do with music, I haven't listened to the words very closely (shame on me). With the new details, I say... Great Job!!! :) #5968966

Peter W. Marks May 27, 2008

Hi Dean. I totally like your image but am also totally mystified by your explanation of the title. You say that Eleanor Rigby "is a story composed into a song" but I am not sure what that means. Paul McCartney is quoted as saying-
I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head... 'Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church'. I don't know why. I couldn't think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad's a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name McKenzie."
So this is not a song derived from a story but quite the opposite; a lyric and melody that developed into a story. He changed her name to Eleanor Rigby and at first envisaged her as a young girl but as the song developed she was seen as an older women who was the church cleaner who cleaned up the rice thrown at the church wedding and was perhaps saddened that life was passing her by and she was unwed.
So Dean, what I am curious about is how you read into this song that she "is full of reservations in contradiction with her true character etc."
I am one who believes that the viewer of images and hearer of songs can read whatever he likes into whatever the artist has put down on canvas or a musical score. Sso believe me friend I am not trying to be argumentative but genuinely fascinated as to how you came up with your interpretation of this famous Beatles number.
I have been over to your gallery and particularly admire your portrait work, I am envious! #5984622

Donna La Mattino Pagakis October 12, 2008

What a beautiful portrait Dean!!! I love the mood and textures!!! #6587878

Ellen L. Zaslaw December 12, 2008

Pardon the expression, but... drop dead gorgeous ! #6883617

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