a scan from The Devious and Grotesque in Art by Wilhelm Michel 1919
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
H Meyer...Bookplate... c1793
bookplate from Letters to the advancement of humanity by Johann Gottfried von Herder
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Johann Gottfried von Herder
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)...Zur Farbenlehre ...bookplate 1810
"To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsion and expansion, the inspiration and expiration of the world in which we move." ~ Goethe
Based on his experiments with turbid media, Goethe characterized colour as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light. Rudolf Steiner gives the following analogy:
Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power. Conversely, the light can limit the energy of the darkness. In both cases color arises.
—Rudolf Steiner, 1897 >
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Goethe
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
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Kenneth Grahame,
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Dolorosa... new work ...watercolour
Dolorosa ~ the Morphology of Vertebrates 2011
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my drawings,
my works
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Paraphilia Magazine ISSUE XlII ...& ...New work
La Santisima 2011 ~ Dolorosa
Featuring interviews with J.G. Thirlwell, Mike Garson, Shooter Jennings, Jon Savage, Black Earth, Bart Powers, Arrica Rose, and Voltera, and a cornucopia of goodies from: Dolorosa De La Cruz, F.X. Tobin, Andrew Maben, Matt Leyshon, D M Mitchell, Heather Harris, Susan Te Kahurangi King, John Kruth, David Gionfriddo, Sid Graves, Michael Butterworth, Patricia Wells-Stein, Tom Garretson, Mike Hudson, Robert Earl Reed, Ele-Beth Little, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Stagger Lloyd, Brian Routh, Dixē.Flatlin3, Richard C. Walls, Díre McCain, Christopher Nosnibor, Tony Visconti, Lara Visconti, Cricket Corleone, Richard A. Meade, Melissa Mann, Lana Gentry, Craig Woods, Max Reeves, Vadge Moore, Nick Louras, Claudia Bellocq, Lisa Wormsley, Hank Kirton, Rick Grimes, Bob Pfeifer, Keith Jones, Chris Madoch, Alan Perry, Syd Howells, and Ron Garmon
Cover © 2011 Dolorosa De La Cruz
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PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Satty... The illustrated Edgar Allan Poe
another scan from a favourite book ....
click on image to enlarge
Yet, for a while I saw; but how terrible an
Exaggeration! I saw the lips of the Black-Robed Judges.
The Pit and the Pendulum ~ Edgar Allan Poe
previous SATTY
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Edgar Allan Poe,
illustrator,
Wilfried Satty
Saturday, December 3, 2011
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