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Showing posts with label satyr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satyr. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Hans Troschel (1585-1628) after Simon Vouet (1590-1649)... Satyrs
click on image to enlargeSatyrs admiring the anamorphosis of an Elephant; eight satyrs are pointing at a reflection cast by the elephant on the table at centre; a formal garden in background.
Engraving
Engraving
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Liv Rainey-Smith... Woodcuts ... Satyr
Shub ~ The Early Years © Liv Rainey-Smith
"Shub-Niggurath" ~ 2008 © Liv Rainey-Smith
Friday, July 22, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) ... Symbolic Questions... 1574
Prospero Fontana's designs are often obscure in their iconography, their significance as reflections of quattrocento symbols and hieroglyphics have been analysed by Edgar Wind in several sections of Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. These striking illustrations have been shown to have influenced Blake and Samuel Palmer after two centuries of neglect.
Achille Bocchi's Symbolicarum Quaestionum, the full book of wonders
with more of Fontanas illustrations here
Friday, June 3, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Austin Osman Spare ... Ugly Ecstasy ...Satyr...
from the Book of Ugly Ecstasy 1924 - Fulgur 1996
it would be sentimental to say that the figures in Ugly Ectasy and Automatic Drawings
are happy despite theirhideous appearances....in the words of WH Audens poem, 'In Memory of Sigmund Freud' -
Down among the lost people like Dante, down
To the stinking fosse where the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected.
Nevertheless, Spare signed off Automatic Drawing on a defiant and innuendo-laden note: "Great is he who pleasures this difficult life," he wrote, and "He has found wisdom who knows how to spend"*
*Victorian euphemism for ejaculation.
excerpt from Austin Osman Spare - The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
by Phil Baker
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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