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It’s the best day of the week, This is Crystal excited to host another session. Thanks to for hosting before our break. Our theme this week is the folklore of art, colors, and creativity! Put on your beret and tweet away! (Img: J. Bauer)

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Josef Fenneker (1895–1956) was one of the most important representatives of artistic film posters of the 1910s and 1920s. His color lithographs incorporated influences from Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism, Art Deco, and Jugendstil https://t.co/8dhDLFtEEO

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Edward Robert Hughes was a modestly regarded painter and assistant to Holman Hunt.
Now his paintings of women as heavenly bodies are loved around the world on thousands of posters and greeting cards.

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In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens depicting jealousy.
In this scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses she is poisoning the ocean to transform her love rival Scylla into a sea monster.
(🎨Waterhouse)

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considering & symbolism in Pre-Raphaelite

"...derived from its association with the Folk - originating as ‘folk’s gloves’ - the foxglove is associated with magical deception & trickery..."

https://t.co/Y2dExv4HMM

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CU SITH or SIDHE Gaelic fairy dog DARK GREEN in colour & as big as a 2 year old calf with coiled or plaited fur & tail. The Cu Sith are malevolent & possess the power of the evil eye. They appear in many notable studies of Irish fae 🎨Croker; Evans Wentz; White

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The mallow plant in French is ‘mauve’, & this is where the colour derives its name. Discovered in 1856, the colour became so popular that the 1890s were known as the ‘mauve decade.’ As for mallow, the ancients often used it in erotic potions. Img: Cicely Barker

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Can you spot what isn’t different?
Rossetti clearly loved this spiral hair ornament and gave it different models to wear. Apparently it was last heard of when borrowed by Charles Howell’s wife who never returned it….

Thanks Pics https://t.co/tejk8l5lLJ

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In 1856 William Henry Perkin (1838–1907) tried to make quinine from coal tar & discovered it could be used to create purple dye. He called it mauveine. Fabric dyed with it didn't fade from sunlight & coal pollution; 'royal purple' clothing became more affordable

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Queen Elizabeth I decreed only the royal family could wear purple. In the early 19thc purple dye was made using (rather scarce) snake droppings later replaced by (more prevalent) cormorant guano. This murexide purple was lightfast but faded in coal-polluted air

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Ever since ancient times, red was the colour of life and intense emotions. In some Slavic languages, red can replace the words beautiful, splendid, and colourful. Or in others represent evil.

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If the first butterfly of the season you see is white it will be a rainy summer. If the first is dark there will be many thunderstorms and if the first butterfly you see is yellow then it will be a summer full of sunshine.

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The colour Red, symbolising Power, Wealth and Purity in Indian culture.

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The Baleful Head – Edward Burne-Jones
Perseus carefully shows Andromeda the Medusa's head reflected in water - to keep her safe from its petrifying power.
Later he will use his trusty Gorgon's head to turn his enemy to stone.

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Orange Kinkwa-neko or Golden Flower Cats have a demonic nature, in Japanese folklore.

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There were many examples of automata in Greek mythology, something the island of Rhodes was particularly renowned for: "The animated figures stand / Adorning every public street / And seem to breathe in stone, or / move their marble feet."

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'Colour in Fairytales' for (and a version of this essay appears with others in my book 'Seven Miles of Steel Thistles'). https://t.co/tkNe4KlbHJ

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'In addition to the many Pan-like figures ... there is one figure of interest who is wearing a cloak with a red jewel and holding a staff containing the hermetic double snake.' Mysteries of Poussin's art. https://t.co/DPXyEQZRgn

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Rusalki laugh as they tie together willow or slender birch branches so they can swing by the river. They love to perform somersaults and sing and dance in the moonlight. Some people say that merely hearing Rusalki’s laughter causes death.#FolkloreThursday

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2021-08-27

Ayakashi in Japanese literally means, "strange phenomenon of the sea," and is a term used for yokai who appear in the liminal spaces between the surface of the sea/ocean and the air.

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