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Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by flowers & humanised insects. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement. #FolkloreThursday #insects
An Insect Ball, Jean-Jacques Grandville, 1835 https://t.co/RNxSTvYqcy #cmadrawings #clevelandartmuseum
Grandville, né Jean Ignace Gérard (13/09/1803-17/03/1847) est un caricaturiste, illustrateur et lithographe français.
Les Fleurs animées, 1846-47 : Marguerite. Narcisse.
J.J. Grandville ~ Un Autre Monde: transformations, visions, incarnations
(Full book, 1844)
Grandville was a caricaturist later recognized as a precursor of Surrealism.
Un Autre Monde describes a parallel world created by three sleazy demiurges.
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FLOWERS PERSONIFIED 2. Victorians merged the laws of propriety with the language of flowers; nun-like Water Lily, or Nenuphar; sleep/death inducing precocious Poppy or Pavot, shrinking Violet or Violette from J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847 #BotanicalGothic @daisy2205
We are grateful for all of our day to day customers and for our wholesale clients. It is an honor to bake for you. #ScratchBakery #Branson #SugarLeaf #GrandVillage
FLOWERS PERSONIFIED. Invasive & unruly, the Hawthorn (Aubepine) & Gillyflower (Giroflee) are contained by plant men or gardeners, whilst the thistle (Chardon) makes an ass of her suitor with her spikes and prickles. From J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847 #BotanicalGothic
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Une exposition consacrée à Balzac et Grandville à la @Maison_Balzac à partir du 23 septembre !
Via @ActuaLitte
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Sweet Tweet Dreams: 'Promenade to The Stars' by the incomparable J J Grandville (1803-1847)
Grandview receiving 9 Bobby G nominations vs. Grandview winning 0 Bobby G awards
JJ Grandville’s #Illustrations , particularly his caricatures of anthropomorphic animals, influenced the work of John Tenniel in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. (Here more Les Fleurs Animées) #FairyTaleTuesday
Les Fleurs Animées by French artist J J Grandville (pseudonym of Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gerard, 1803 - 1847). The #Illustrations , which are both satirical and poetic, were published posthumously in 1847.
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The latest Grandville Force Majeure annotations are now online: "LeBrock’s styling cream is a reference to the Dapper Dan brand of pomade, popular in America from the 1920s to the1940s and featured in the Coen Brothers film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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