Great Literature Illustrated

[Dark Muse]

Those are really cool

[Janine]

Originally Posted by Dark Muse

Those are really cool

I have a hardbound book of his work. He is really amazing. In the back are landscape paintings he did as well. He crossed over into the fine arts field. Hadn't you ever seen his work before, Dark Muse? He is extremely popular or was at one time. I think his work is timeless. In my book the colors are much better and the paintings are clearer. My sister owns a plate with one of his paintings on it. He did all kinds of commercial art and advertizing art as well...some really witty and cool things. I will have to see if I can find any examples online.

[Etienne]

Wow Parrish has been my favorite thus far, after Doré.

I love the second and last pictures especially.

Jessie Marion King is also amazing!

Dulac's last picture also caught my attention very much!

[Janine]

Originally Posted by Etienne

Wow Parrish has been my favorite thus far, after Doré.

I love the second and last pictures especially.

Jessie Marion King is also amazing!

Dulac's last picture also caught my attention very much!

Etienne, I love Parrish and have for years. Sadly these are not really clear examples. If I find ones that are better I will replace them with the better photo of the print. I took these off of one site in which I felt the quality of the photos was not as good as some I have seen. Parrish's landscapes are amazing. Yes, I agree - the second and last ones have always been ones I am attracted to. You should check his work out in a book store. I should dust off my own hardback copy, get it out to pour over his work once more...I usually drool over amazing great talent with color and light. Those Dore's really impressed me, as well. I now need to get a good copy of a book on Dore. I would like to see more of the ones from "Paradise Lost" and "Dante" - will you be posting anymore?

[Dark Muse]

No I am not familair with his work.

[Etienne]

I found a nice website with plenty of Doré's (unfortunately, no The Tempest, no Gargantua and Pantagruel, and no Don Quixote) but I am unable to link pictures from there, so here is the website anyway: http://dore.artpassions.net/

Here is one, I'm not sure if it's an illustration for a book though. A Doré (and a fabulous one too!) nonetheless.


The Divine Comedy






Paradise Lost

[Dark Muse]

Here are some cool Greek Myth illustrations from Parrish


Pandora


Crice's Palace


Proserpina


Jason and His Teacher


The Argonauts Quest for the Golden Fleece

[Janine]

Those are really beautiful. I just found one site which had very clear photos of the reproductions; I could not stop copying them. Most online are not that clear I noticed, so I will post a few more tomorrow, from this new site I found - the lighting in Parrish's work, as I said before, is so amazing and so etheral; also his detail is amazing - like tree trunks, rock formations, water and the way light travels across objects or landscape elements. His landscapes are lovely too and maybe I will post some in one of the social threads but I am not sure we have a category for his work. The light on the Jason one is what I am referring to. I think he painted at a certain time of day or evening - such as twighlight.

Originally Posted by Etienne

The Divine Comedy

I don't know how I missed these last night - maybe we were posting nearly the same time. I love ArstyCraftsy - the site. I have copied some from that site - what seems to be the problem? I like the one you did copy and post - the cover illustration. So this girl and the deer is also Dore? It looks more like Dulac; amazing how much some of the artist's work look similar to each other. I guess they all influenced each other.

Anyway, I just love the additional etchings of Dore that you have posted. These are amazing and completely imaginative - such fine detail it takes my breath away. 5 and 7 really catch my eye....wonderful! Do you notice the rays coming from the angel in 7, how they look so much like the two rays coming from the angel in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" piece, only the angel is seen in the Mariner from the back? Those two single rays intrigue me.

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by Janine

So this girl and the deer is also Dore? It looks more like Dulac; amazing how much some of the artist's work look similar to each other. I guess they all influenced each other.

What? Which picture are you referring to?

[Janine]

Originally Posted by Etienne

What? Which picture are you referring to?

I meant the girl and the moose. I just saw it on another site and it is by Dulac, not Dore...You just got them mixed up. I love the new Dore's you just posted - they are amazing. Been researching just now to find the illustrator you mentioned - Jessie Marion King and found tons of different illustrators on one site but sadly one can copy them but they have a watermark across to protect them from being posted. I will provide some links soon for that site so you all can view these great examples. Here is one for starters - these are the Nielson Arabian Nights that I have in my own book which are rare to find these days. Apparently this person scanned all of the work from her own books. The site is quite extensive but some great stuff on there.

Arabian Nights
http://www.nocloo.com/gallery2/v/kay...rabian-nights/

If you click on the first one it takes you to a page where you can use the arrow to see all of the prints more easily.

[Etienne]

I don't see any girl with moose in the pictures I've posted, perhaps there's just something wrong with the linking? All those I posted, as I see them are easily recognizable as Dorés too. Anyone else see this moose? Might as well tell me which it is, I'll remove it and try to replace it by another.

[Janine]

Originally Posted by Etienne

I don't see any girl with moose in the pictures I've posted, perhaps there's just something wrong with the linking? All those I posted, as I see them are easily recognizable as Dorés too. Anyone else see this moose? Might as well tell me which it is, I'll remove it and try to replace it by another.

Sure thing...It is your post #36 and here is what you say just prior to the moose (or is it a reindeer?) picture - it is the only one in color - the rest are all black and white etchings, accept this same picture shows up in-between the others further down the post...very strange indeed, if you can't see it...under the print of the girl/moose or reindeer, it says 'Artsy Craftsy'.

Etienne, these are your words

Here is one, I'm not sure if it's an illustration for a book though. A Doré (and a fabulous one too!) nonetheless/

I hate to correct you, but it is a Dulac - in the site I just was exploring....not sure for what story it was done. The girl is pulling the antlers of the moose/deer. It is in color and then right after this you posted several Dores in a row. Those are spectacular, by the way!

[Dark Muse]

I think it is a problem with the site from which you liked the pictures from, as the first one, and one farther down is an image of a girl with a moose and under it, it says artscraftsy.com

[Janine]

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[andave_ya]

OOh, Janine, thanks for those Parrish pictures. One of them, the girl in blue with her head down in her hands, on the chair, is used as a cover of an Enya cd.