The Magickal Chalk drawings of Peter Dyde...
Monday, October 4, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Ex libris... Satyr
Leopold A. Chambliss - Bookplate was designed in 1928 by H.Hubert. The quotation is from The Revolt Of The Angels by Anatole France
Rev. Carl E. Peterson- was a bookplate collector. This exlibris was engraved in 1895 by Levy and company .The designer was Bessie Pease Gutmann who is better known for her illustrations of children.
from this great bookplate blog
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Hans Christian Andersen's Paper Cuts...SCISSOR WRITING...
Things that quicken the heart...The magical paper cuts of Hans Christian Andersen
I had the pleasure of seeing some of these wonders at an exhibition shown here in Dublin= Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs.
”Det hele er Andersens poesi
i klipperi!
Broget, løjerligt alleslags,
alt med en saks!”
(In Andersen's paper-cuts you see
His poetry!
A medley of diverting treasures
All done with scissors.)
The fact that Andersen could create such delicate patterns and gossamery, graceful dancers out of a thickly folded piece of paper with the help of a crude, heavy pair of scissors was pure magic in the eyes of children. The eldest of the daughters at Holsteinsborg Manor remembered in particular, later in life as a grown-up baroness, the light, delicate dolls Andersen had cut for her out of white paper and which she afterwards had placed on the table and blown at carefully so that they fluttered back and forth: “He always cut with an enormous pair of paper scissors, and I simply couldn’t understand how he could cut such pretty, delicate things with his big hands and this enormous pair of scissors.”
This was Hans Christian Andersen’s own explanation of a highly spectacular page in Astrid Stampes Billedbog from 1853, where seven or eight little cuttings from twice as many pieces of paper in all sorts of colours and patterns merge into one big picture. And this is also how we must regard Andersen’s paper art: as something colourful, diverting and poetic that is extremely closely linked to his lyric poetry, drama, fairy-tales, novels and travel books. Andersen’s paper-cuts cannot just be separated from his written oeuvre and placed beside it.
About 1,000 paper-cuts of all sizes still exist to this day – primitive figures and simple tableaux as well as more ornamental, sophisticated cuttings. They belong to a world of their own, but they all have their roots in precisely the same rich, widely embracing creative imagination which in the nineteenth century revolutionized world literature with a long series of fairy-tales told for children and for the child in every adult. This is why Andersen’s many paper-cuts cannot be dismissed, as they often have been in Andersen research, as mere diversions and little games or just be regarded as funny, entertaining illustrations of what is really at stake and essential: Andersen’s fairy-tale world in writing.
more papercuts at the Royal Library
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Early Manuscripts... Latin Gospels...
Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century
from the Bodleian Library
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
The graphics works of Arthur Boyd (4 Jul 1920–24 Apr 1999) part 2
Arthur Boyd was one of Australia’s most widely respected and prolific artists. He was born in 1920 in Melbourne, Victoria and was part of a dynamic generation of artists and thinkers, which included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, and Joy Hester. Boyd was brought up in a lively family of practicing artists, with whom he studied and developed his painting and printmaking.
My favourite of his pieces are collaborations with one of my favourite poets fellow Australian Peter Porter, whom he collaborated with on 4 books during 70s and 80s.
Jonah 1973, The Lady and the Unicorn 1975, Mars 1988 and
Narcissus 1984 ( images shown below)
Narcissus, Seckers & Warburg London 1984
"But what Arthur & I was trying to do in Narcissus was sort of turn upside & like the rest of us when you look in the water we are turned upside down. that we wanted to produce, of really really how the Natural world doesn't . . . we don't see ourselves in the Natural world. The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us. "
Peter Porter
A wonderful collection of drawings and prints
The graphics works of Arthur Boyd (4 Jul 1920–24 Apr 1999) part 1...
Lady and the Unicorn
Dream of an Intelligent Woman
Poem illustration Peter Porters Postlude
Poem illustration Peter Porters Echos half moon calf
;
Peter Porter's poem 'The unicorn's prison song'
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
My Drawings ... Vowed Series 2 & 4
Dolorosa - Vowed Series No. 2 2010
Dolorosa - Vowed Series No. 4 2010
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