Last Exit on St. Laurent Street: The Wonderfully Fucked Up World of Ryan Larkin
Ryan Larkin's Official Site
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Ryan Larkin...
Last Exit on St. Laurent Street: The Wonderfully Fucked Up World of Ryan Larkin
Ryan Larkin's Official Site
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
EUGÈNE GRASSET... illustration...
Les petites faunesses.
watercolour over pen and ink, depiting two young fauns gambolling by a wooded lakeside
circa 1896
originally an illustration for the poem by Pierre Loüys, Les Petites Faunesses (The Young Girl Fauns) which appeared in the first edition of 'L'Image'. It was later printed in colour using six blocks by Eugène Froment.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
LYSISTRATA..Illustrations by Norman Lindsay
Aristophanes' Lysistrata
translated from the Greek and with a
foreword by Jack Lindsay
"Lysistrata" is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better written work than the "Birds" or the "Frogs", or that (to descend to the scale of values that will be naturally imputed to me) it has any more appeal to the collectors of "curious literature" than the "Ecclesiazusae" or the "Thesmophoriazusae". On the mere grounds of taste I can see an at least equally good case made out for the "Birds". That brightly plumaged fantasy has an aerial wit and colour all its own. But there are certain works in which a man finds himself at an angle of vision where there is an especially felicitous union of the aesthetic and emotional elements which constitute the basic qualities of his uniqueness. We recognize these works as being welded into a strange unity, as having a homogeneous texture of ecstasy over them that surpasses any aesthetic surface of harmonic colour, though that harmony also is understood by the deeper welling of imagery from the core of creative exaltation. And I think that this occurs in "Lysistrata". The intellectual and spiritual tendrils of the poem are more truly interwoven, the operation of their centres more nearly unified; and so the work goes deeper into life. It is his greatest play because of this, because it holds an intimate perfume of femininity and gives the finest sense of the charm of a cluster of girls, the sweet sense of their chatter, and the contact of their bodies, that is to be found before Shakespeare, because that mocking gaiety we call Aristophanies reaches here its most positive acclamation of life, vitalizing sex with a deep delight, a rare happiness of the spirit.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian, 1696–1770)...
A Satyr Family: From the series Scherzi di Fantasia, ca. 1743–57
Sergei Sergeivich Solomko...
Sergei Sergeivich Solomko (1867-1928), a prominent book illustrator and watercolor painter, graduated from the Moscow School of Painting and St. Petersburg Academy of Art; a fashionable artist of the early 1900s whose watercolors were reproduced in huge numbers on postal cards of the period.
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