Art into A(u)ction - A Fundraiser for the Innocence Project and the Chicago Community Bond Fund

This is an 8x10 canvas by Ann D'Angelo, created with artist grade acrylics, clear gesso, colored pencil.

This is an artistic meditation on the gradual silencing of Cinderella over time. 

From Ann's blog:

When I selected my fairy tale theme for this project, I ordered lots of books from the library, including Grimms' Bad Girls & Bold Boys: The Moral & Social Vision of the Tales, by Ruth Bottigheimer.  I pounced on that one as soon as it arrived, and in the chapter on Cinderella, I learned something both fascinating and sad.  There were three editions of the Grimms' fairy tales, the first put out in 1812, the second in 1819, and the third in 1857.  Over that time period, Cinderella's lines of 'direct speech' were repeatedly reduced.  As Bottigheimer says, 'Cinderella explains, conjectures, conjures, questions, assumes, and lies in her fourteen speaking appearances in the 1812 edition. . . . The 1857 version presents a far different picture' of a Cinderella without much of a voice.  This, of course, is the Cinderella most of us know.