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Showing posts with label illustrators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustrators. Show all posts
Monday, July 2, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Vladimira Milashevskago...illustrations ...Zanaveshennye kartinki (Curtained pictures) ...1920
Poems by Mikhail Kuzmin, Illustrated by Vladimir Milashevsky 1920
Sun, Sun
Sun, sun,
divine Ra-Helios,
you delight
the hearts of kings and heroes,
sacred horses neigh to you,
in Heliopolis they sing hymns to you;
when you shine,
lizards crawl out onto rocks
and boys go laughing
to swim in the Nile.
Sun, sun,
I am a pale scribbler,
a library recluse,
but I love you, sun, no less
than a tanned sailor
smelling of fish and salt water,
and no less
than his accustomed heart
rejoices
at your royal rising
from the ocean,
my heart trembles,
when your dusty, but flaming ray
slips
through the narrow window by the ceiling
onto my filled page
and my thin, yellowish hand,
writing out in vermilion
the first letter of a hymn to you,
O Ra-Helios sun!
divine Ra-Helios,
you delight
the hearts of kings and heroes,
sacred horses neigh to you,
in Heliopolis they sing hymns to you;
when you shine,
lizards crawl out onto rocks
and boys go laughing
to swim in the Nile.
Sun, sun,
I am a pale scribbler,
a library recluse,
but I love you, sun, no less
than a tanned sailor
smelling of fish and salt water,
and no less
than his accustomed heart
rejoices
at your royal rising
from the ocean,
my heart trembles,
when your dusty, but flaming ray
slips
through the narrow window by the ceiling
onto my filled page
and my thin, yellowish hand,
writing out in vermilion
the first letter of a hymn to you,
O Ra-Helios sun!
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Alfred Kubin...illustration...1926
"When I ventured back into the world of the living, I discovered that my god only held half-sway. In everything, both great and small, he had to share with an adversary who wanted life. The forces of repulsion and attraction, the twin poles of the earth with their currents, the alternation of the seasons, day and night, black and white - these are battles."
from The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
Friday, February 3, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Arthur Rackham...the Wind in the Willows..illustration..Satyr
"Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Kenneth Grahame
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Mahlon Blaine ... illustrator... Nova Venus
from another favourite illustrator, a few images from the stunning illustrated poem Nova Venus...
INFINITELY GRACIOUS, radiantly beautiful,
Aphrodite rose from the foam.
All life loved and laughed, and begot new life in tender play....
In 1923 Mahlon Blaine burst upon the art scene with striking works of imagination and vision. Within a short time his work was published in everything ranging from children's books and mainstream magazines to erotic portfolios. The body of work he produced between 1926 and 1930 was nothing short of phenomenal but after 1931 his output became increasingly sporadic. Sadly like so many artists before him who have given us so much, Blaine died penniless and mostly forgotten in January of 1969.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Lee Brown Coye... illustrations...
Ambrose Bierce's "Oil of Dog"
Lord Dunsany's "the Exiles Club"
Arthur Machen's "History of the Young Man With Spectacles"
more weird and wonderful Coye work and other wonders from >> FREEDOM SCHOOL RECORDS
more weird and wonderful Coye work and other wonders from >> FREEDOM SCHOOL RECORDS
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
André Marty (1882 -1974)...watercolour...
Ida Rubinstein dans La Gisanelle Original watercolor for Gazette Du Bon Ton
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Alastair... The Temptation of St Anthony...
another scan from one of my favourite illustrators Alastair (Hans Henning Voigt)
Anger - One of the seven deadly sins in all his magnificence, holding two spiked balls aloft, his body dripping with blood,
from Alastair Illustrator of Decadence Victor Arwas - Thames and Hudson
previous ALASTAIR
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Andre Domin ...illustration for "Litanies de la Rose"...1919
"Litanies de la Rose"
Remy de Gourmont (Author)
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1919
Remy de Gourmont (Author)
Paris: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1919
Rose with dark eyes,
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Rose the colour of pure gold,
oh safe deposit of the ideal,
rose the colour of pure gold,
give us the key of your womb,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Rose the colour of silver,
censer of our dreams,
rose the colour of silver,
take our heart and turn it into smoke,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Rose the colour of pure gold,
oh safe deposit of the ideal,
rose the colour of pure gold,
give us the key of your womb,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Rose the colour of silver,
censer of our dreams,
rose the colour of silver,
take our heart and turn it into smoke,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Remy de Gourmont
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Elie Grekoff (1914-1985) ... Tiresias...illustrations 1954
from TIRESIAS by Marcel Jouhandeau, 1954
these illustrations are from the Bibliothèque Gay
an interesting essay on Marcel Jouhandeau's Tiresias >> by Ed Madden
The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis
an interesting essay on Marcel Jouhandeau's Tiresias >> by Ed Madden
The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Rose O'Neill...drawing...Sweet monsters...
“I am in love with magic and monsters,
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
and the drama of form emerging from the formless.”
more at Rose O'Neill org
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Voudon Paper Cuts.... the Magick Art of Hagen von Tulien
Dark Illuminations ~ Paper Cut 2010
Société ~ Paper Cut 2010
From Beyond ~ Paper Cut 2010
Vignette ~ Ink on paper 2010
all works © copyright by Hagen von Tulien
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