Clay F. Johnsonさんのイラストまとめ

For J.M.W. Turner’s birthday I want to share some of his brilliant watercolors that temporarily cured me of crushing winter depression last January in both Edinburgh & Dublin. These watercolors are only on display in January and bring luminous light into a month of darkness.

Albert Pinkham Ryder died #OTD in 1917. Sadly, because of his layering of paint upon varnish, many paintings are unstable & cracking—some have even disintegrated.

The Flying Dutchman
Pegasus Departing
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens

#Art #Byron

“Do they die? Blake saw a fairy’s funeral; but in Ireland we say they are immortal."

—W.B. Yeats

#FairyTaleTuesday #Ireland #StPatricksDay

Jaroslav Panuška was born #OTD in 1872. Although considered a master of landscape painting, Panuška had a penchant for the dark & strange and was inspired by Czech fairy tales.

Baba Yaga
Vampire
Vampire Leaves
Water Sprite

#FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #Art

Czech artist Maxmilián Pirner was born #OTD 1853. If it’s not already obvious, he had a penchant for mythology, the strange, & the macabre.

The End of All Things (detail)
Hekate
The Fairy Funeral
Death

#Art #ArtHistory #ArtNouveau #Mythology #Death

The trees that grew there after the burning were black and grim, and their roots tangled, groping in the dark like claws; and those who strayed among them became lost and blind, and were strangled or pursued to madness by phantoms of terror.

—Tolkien, born #OTD 1892

#Tolkien

Clara Siewert was born #OTD in 1862. Much of her art was destroyed by a bombing raid during WWII and she has remained mostly forgotten ever since.

The Apotheosis of a Witch
Death and the Maiden
Spring Fantasy
Fashion Goddess

#Art #ArtHistory

Ferdinand Knab died #OTD 1902. For me, The Castle Gate is pure poetry that never fails to inspire within me a sense of mystery & fantasy.

The Castle Gate
Romantic Landscape
Elegy
Roman Ruins

#Art #ArtHistory #Romanticism #Fantasy

For #FolkloreThursday on #Halloween, here are some of Arthur Rackham’s illustrations from The Ingoldsby Legends (1898 & 1907) which contain ghost stories, tales of strange myths & legends, and poetry.

#Halloween2019 #GhostStories #Folklore #Art

The dark and tattered draperies...rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed...An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm.

—Poe, died #OTD 1849

#EdgarAllanPoe #31DaysOfHalloween