Scrooge Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I have that bio but it's been stuck on my eternally growing and slowing attritioning reading pile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 The style Wyeth adopted for The Odyssey (which are wonderful and unknown to me before this posting, Pat) have a clear Symbolist quality. Here is Arnold Böcklin: The Plague George Frederic Watts: Hope Böcklin: The Isle of the Dead John William Waterhouse: The Lady of Shalot Alexandre Cabanel: Ophelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Wyeth's more highly realistic work is - to me at least - reminiscent of Russian Revivalist painting of the late 19th Century, whose leading proponents often turned to fairy tales for inspiration. Victor Vasnetsov: Ivan Tsarevich Riding the Grey Wolf And this is "Sadko", by Ilya Repin, a fairy tale which was also the subject of an opera by Rimsky Korsakov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Vasnetsov: The Magic Carpet Vasnetsov: The Snow Maiden Repin: Dancing Gopak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Vasnetsov: Knight at the Crossroads Vasnetsov: Sleeping Tsarina Vasnetsov: Elegy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Repin: Easter Procession at Kursk Repin: Cossacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Annihilus Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 And this is "Sadko", by Ilya Repin, a fairy tale which was also the subject of an opera by Rimsky Korsakov This is spectacularly cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Oh - okay. Here are more of Vasnetsov: Birds of joy and sorrow Kaschev the immortal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 (edited) Baba Yaga The flying carpet Edited March 27, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 And this is "Sadko", by Ilya Repin, a fairy tale which was also the subject of an opera by Rimsky Korsakov This is spectacularly cool! Sadko Sadko, a poor but spirited minstrel, wagers his head against the wealth of the Novgorod merchants that he will catch golden fish in the neighbouring Lake Ilmen. Aided by the Sea-King's daughter he wins, and embarks upon a voyage on one of the fleet of ships that have become his. Overtaken by storm, it is decided by the ship's company that one of their number must be offered as a sacrifice to the Sea-King. Lots are drawn, with the result that Sadko finds himself on a plank in mid-ocean. Entering the Sea-King's domain, he plays upon his gusli with such goodwill that the monarch and his court are soon engaged in a frenzied dance. A fierce gale ensues. St. Nicholas, intervening on behalf of seafarers above, dashes the gusli to the ground, orders Sadko home, and transforms the Sea-King's daughter, who has offered herself to the already married minstrel, into the river Volkhov, on which Novgorod now stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Like Norm Saunders, George Gross was a pulp artist before the war who gravitated to paperback then magazine covers in the post war period. Here is a mixture of covers from my collection augmented by some found on the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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