Posts tagged art
More variations on Shakespeare’s Ariel. Even a female version!
On top: Henry Singleton 1819 / left: Ariel in An Illustrated Shakespeare Birthday Book 1883, right: by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800-10 / Helen Jacobs (1888-1970) / Louis Rhead, early 20th century / George Cruikshank (1792-1878) / Tobacco Advertising?
Joseph Severn’s “Ariel Riding On a Bat” (1830) portrays Ariel from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. It was certainly the inspiration for these antique cameos.
Clockwise from top left (collage by Collectors Items): V&A / Rowan and Rowan / Jewels Collecting Dust / Antique Cameos / painting: Flickr: RasMarley
Twin sisters Ekaterina and Elena Popovy create BJDs who’s costumes and accessories are strongly connected with fashion and thus go beyond the usual fairy tale/gothic art niche. The sisters, who look like dolls themselves, graduated in Yekaterinburg and started making dolls in 2004.
Their earlier dolls were quite different from the actual ones. I have to say that their style is quite similar to Marina Bychkova’s fantastic porcelain dolls, if not clearly copied. The furniture looks like it came alive from a Ray Caesar picture, also the dolls and their gestures remind me of Caesar. The fashion aspect makes them different though. There is a whole range of lingerie accessories and fetish shoes!!
The sisters’ blog, the website Popovy-dolls.com.
A whole board on pinterest: Paintings: Period Interiors
Above: Knut Ekwall, “The Proposal”, 1880 / below: Felix Vallotton, “Bedroom with Two Figures”, 1903-04
Large Antique English Butterfly, Moth, Insect, Bird Diorama Circa 1850’s “Mint” $2,800. (Sold) Found on Lorie Price Bischoff: Soulful Adornments Gallery: Tribute to Victorian Ornithological , Entomological & Taxidermy
Illustrator Richard Doyle (September 1824 – 11 December 1883). His work appeared also in Punch magazine, just like Edward Linley Sambourne’s.
He illustrated a string of fantasy titles, amongst them: The Enchanted Doll by Mark Lemon (1849). That’s where Marina Bychkova got her website title from?! Plus: He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!!
The Clock (2010) by Christian Marclay “…is in effect a clock, but it is made of a 24-hour montage of thousands of time-related scenes from movies and some TV shows, meticulously edited to be shown in “real time”: each scene contains an indication of time (for instance, a timepiece, or a piece of dialogue) that is synchronized to show the actual time. (Wikipedia)“
Rêve de monuments », an exhibition in the Centre des monuments nationau, Paris. Still on until february 24th.
Thomas Allen’s photographs of book sculptures. He’s represented by Foley Gallery, the link might be broken someday but you will find him filed under “artists”. More via Google.
The Sign Painter Movie & Book is “paying tribute to artists who hand-paint signs in a digital age. Faythe Levine and Sam Macon explore the life and times of modern-day sign painters” (picture and words from Co.Design.
Gabriel von Max (1840 - 1915).
1) from Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon 2) from Wikipedia 3) from Artodyssey
