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What a wild session, I’m leaving you with this illustration from Arthur Rackham. Wild things have a place and deserve their space! This is Crystal of signing off. The amazing will be joining as your last host at 6:30 BST!

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2019-08-23

The natural world in the illustrations of Arthur Rackham.

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2019-08-14

Lizzie and Laura, in Rossetti's "Goblin Market," escape, if only just, in a poem with definite allusions to Persephone and Hades. Although the fruit seems to have trapped her in a state of wanting & wasting rather than a place like Hades/Faerie. Famously illustrated by

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2019-06-04

Just completed reading this Excellent informative Book on Illustrator (The Gobin Master) Arthur Rackham.
Strongly recommended.

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2019-05-31

This morning I maybe at work physically but mentally I am living in the magical world of Arthur Rackham. Care to join me?

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2019-05-21

I cannot say enough to sing the praises of Arthur Rackham. He brought new meaning to the art of illustration. His work is the essence of a fairy tale.

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2019-04-30

Brünnhilde on Grane leaps onto the funeral pyre of Siegfried. 'Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods' by Richard Wagner, 1911. Illustration by Arthur Rackham.

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2019-04-11

Illustration from: 'Alice in Wonderland'. Arthur Rackham. 1907.

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2019-04-09

Alberich, by Arthur Rackham.

Originally the image was published in the following book: Wagner, Richard (translated by Margaret Amour) (1910). The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie

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2019-03-13

Slightly more graphically coloured versions of a couple of my ‘Weird-Field’ Spaceships - Rockwell and Rackham.

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2018-12-19

Anton Pieck's illustrations closely resemble those of Rackham. His fantastical images were realised in the Dutch theme park "de Efteling", which he largely designed.
For a 1935 collection, he illustrated 16 of Schubert's songs.

Can you name the songs to these drawings?

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2018-12-03

Three visions of Cinderella's fairy godmother by three Golden Age of Illustration masters.

1) Rustic, homespun auntie by Gustave Doré.
2) Elderly, sybilline dame by Arthur Rackham.
3) Ethereal, courtly beauty by Edmund Dulac.

Goodnight. 🙂

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2018-11-15

Conte psychologique, à mi-chemin entre la fantasy et le fantastique, La Route de Tibilissi est surtout magnifié par le trait fin impressionnant de Kosakowski, un beau mélange entre Miyazaki et Rackham. Un one shot étonnant !

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2018-04-23

Arthur Rackham. Oh yes.

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2018-03-11

The many mermaids of Arthur Rackham. One of the "Golden Age" illustrators, Rackham (1867-1939) illustrated many editions of fairy tales, myths and even the work of Shakespeare and Wagner. His depictions of Rhine-maidens & Mermaids are extraordinary.

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2018-02-11

From the book "English Fairy Tales"
illustrator : Arthur Rackham.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1918.

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2016-11-20

Frazetta, Giger et Rackham... It's something
Je l'ai intitulé "Les Power Rangers"

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2016-11-14