Mark Reesさんのプロフィール画像

Mark Reesさんのイラストまとめ


Journalist. Author. Cultural adventurer. Writes about the arts, history, opera & the uncanny. PhD researcher in the Gothic. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast.
markreesonline.com

フォロー数:1589 フォロワー数:21659

This is one of the craziest alternative covers I've ever seen - Marvel Comics recreates one of Goya's most disturbing paintings, but with Venom being devoured instead of Saturn's son.
Saturn Devouring His Son (c 1819–1823), Francisco Goya/ Venom 30 alternative, Mike Mayhew

9 54

"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise."
Folklore of Wales, 1909

Maggie Vandewalle

270 872

Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones was born in 1742.
His most famous work "The Bard" (1774) is based on Thomas Gray’s poem and depicts final bard cursing Edward I's invaders before leaping into the "endless night"
National Museum Wales

29 97

THE WALES WINDOW
"This stained glass window in Birmingham, Alabama is one of the first depictions of a black Christ in the deep South. It was donated by the people of and created by Welsh artist John Petts after a church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan killed 4 girls in 1963."

532 1408

The Lady of the Lake plays a pivotal role in Arthurian legend.
She gives King Arthur his sword Excalibur, raises Lancelot in her magical kingdom, and bewitches Merlin the wizard into teaching her some magic - which she then uses to imprison him in a tower.

56 171

"Something wicked this way comes"
Second Witch
William Shakespeare's Macbeth



Witches Round the Cauldron
Daniel Gardner, 1775
National Portrait Gallery, London

48 95

Random question time: what is your favourite castle in Wales?
Not necessarily the biggest or fanciest, just your own personal favourite for whatever reason?
(Oh, and yes, there is a point to this!)


JMW Turner - Caernarfon/ Pembroke/ Laugharne/ Cilgerran

10 13

There's an excellent Women in Art exhibition at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery right now, with works by Shani Rhys James, Gwen John, Evan Walters, Ceri Richards and more. A great way to while away a dinner break in

4 10