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'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.'
-Ursula K. Le Guin

🎨Arthur Rackham

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2022-03-31

This Arthur Rackham series always scared the hell out of me.

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2022-03-31

This week's features magical women, incl witches & their familiars. The work of artist extraordinaire Arthur Rackham has that special quality that pulls me in, makes me feel like a little boy discovering that otherworld for his very first time.

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2022-03-29

'Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.'
-Lewis Carroll

🎨Arthur Rackham

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2022-03-26

It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season.

—Thomas Hardy
art by Arthur Rackham

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2022-03-22

"...And when they came quite up to the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar."

- Hansel and Gretel, by the Brothers Grimm 🎨 by Arthur Rackham

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2022-03-21

Irish Fairy Tales (1920) is a book by James Stephens that retells ten Irish folktales. This collection is also graced by the beautiful artwork of Arthur Rackham.


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2022-03-15

Mermaids of the Rhine - Arthur Rackham

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2022-03-12

Valkyries functioned as guides to the afterlife, leading the souls of fallen warriors either to Odin's Valhalla, or to the peaceful fields of Freya's Fólkvangr.

Art: Arthur Rackham, "Wagner's Ring Cycle: Valkyrie," 1910

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2022-03-11

Clerk Colvill and the Mermaid for British Ballads, Arthur Rackham.

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2022-03-07

Arthur Rackham. Never was art more whimsical, grotesque, and fairy tale worthy. The realism of animals and plants with his creatures was nightmarish and magical.

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2022-03-06

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

—Molly Ringle

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2022-03-04

Arthur Rackham - his compositions, the swooshiness of his linework and I love how he outlines the bodies of his characters

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2022-03-02

Jolly Jackrabbits: Celebrating March 1st with depictions of these long-eared lovelies: Lewis Carroll's 'March Hare' by John Tenniel (1865) & Arthur Rackham (1907) and terrific tiles by William de Morgan (1880s)

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2022-03-01

Hansel and Gretel 🎨 by Arthur Rackham

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2022-02-25

There's a tale from the Solway Firth of a mermaid who fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return, but after many years, he died, alone.


art: Arthur Rackham

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2022-02-22

In Greek mythology, Iris is a sky goddess and the personification of the rainbow. She is also a messenger of the gods, travelling from one end of earth to the other at the speed of wind, connecting the gods to humanity.

🎨'Iris' - Arthur Rackham, 1921.

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