Hank connects with Leila (Nastassja Kinski), an exotic
circus tightrope walker.
Not exact matches
Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial
circus and was awed by the
tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.
Works have been created alluding to traditional
circus acts like acrobatics, aerial acts with trapeze, juggling, daredevil stunts like human cannonball, fire eating and magic shows, the performance of strongmen,
tightrope walkers, animal tamers, stilt
walkers, clowns, unicyclers and pantomimes.
All of the major subjects and periods in Picasso's oeuvre reappear in the exhibition in the from of artist's reception of them: the Blue Period and the associated themes of loneliness, despair, and poverty, but also more lively motifs from the Rose Period, such as the world of the
circus, Harlequin, or
tightrope walkers.