The red shoes hans christian anderson

The Influence of Powell & Pressburger

The first time I came across British illustrator Helen Stratton’s work was as the illustrator for George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie (1912). My edition of The Princess and the Goblin had been...

Read 174 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Have you ever wished for something so hard that you could think of nothing else? When Kare…

I made this for contest fairy tales on #artnouveau I choose The Red Shoes written by Hans Christian Andersen. Reference; The Red Shoes(film)　en.w... The Red Shoes

Matthew Bourne, in his adaptation of the 1948 movie, made a real party of it.

An essay on the horror that lurks beneath the veneer of 'happily ever after.'

The Red Shoes is one of the most loving tributes to the art of the theater, that I've ever seen. Therefore it's borderline perverse that T...

The Red Shoes fairytale

"The Red Shoes" is a tale by Hans Christian Andersen, one that really reveals his tendency to condemn a young girl, in this case for her vanity, and make her suffer incredible punishments that seem to far outweigh the crime. Karen, the protagonist, struggles with vanity long before she even comes into contact with the fateful shoes. "People said that she was pretty. But the mirror told her, 'you are more than pretty-you are beautiful.' " A throwback to Snow White's evil Queen, perhaps…

Kay Nielsen illustration of "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen (1924).#FairyTaleFashion "The executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes; but the shoes danced away with the little feet across the field into the deep forest....'Now, I have suffered enough for the red shoes,' she said."