Lewis Carroll, Henry Holiday and Joseph Swain's Tragicomedy
Knight Letter (LCSNA), № 106, Spring 2021, p. 12~13 It is possible that the author was half-consciously laying a trap, so readily did he take to the inventing of puzzles and things enigmatic; but to those who knew the man, or who have divined him correctly through his writings, the explanation is fairly simple. … Continue reading “Henry Holiday’s Snark Illustrations”
This is about what I published about The Hunting of the Snark in Reddit (/r/TheHuntingOfTheSnark) before the snrk.de blog was launched in autumn 2017. Some entries are out of date. The text below is a copy from the wiki page in my reddit account. The poem and the illustrations have been published by C. L. … Continue reading “Snark on Reddit”
I try to play with my pareidolia like Gustave Doré and Henry Holiday might have played with their pareidolia. 2013 (Gustave Doré, Henry Holiday, Gustave Doré)Gustave Doré and Henry Holiday were playing with Gustave Doré. 2015 (Gustave Doré, Matthias Grünewald, Henry Holiday) 2017 (Henry Holiday, Matthias Grünewald) 2017 (Matthias Grünewald) 2019 … Continue reading “Playing with Pareidolia”
Bycatch from my Snark hunt: In the image you see two renderings of a segment from The Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1512-1516) by Matthias Grünewald (Mathis Gothardt Neithardt), painting in a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece, now located at the Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France), where a part of the rendering on the right side … Continue reading “Face It!”
Artists, who have played with their own pareidolia first, know how to play with the pareidolia of the beholders of their works. I incidentally found this in December 2017 as bycatch from my Snark hunt: more 2017-12-23
The two images had been compared in a beautiful book by Margaret Aston in 1994: The King’s Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait (Reviews: Christy Anderson and Gottfried G. Krodel) [left]: Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck, redrawn (vectorized) print Ahasuerus consulting the records (1564). The resemblance to the image on the … Continue reading “The King’s Bedpost”
One of the surest tests [of a poet’s superiority or inferiority] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling … Continue reading “On Borrowing”
Image from: wikimedia.org: Millais’ Lorenzo and Isabella caused some noise in November 2012 on occasion of Tate’s Pre-Raphaelites exhibition. Only then the phallic symbol was mentioned openly by a museum, even though “The gallery staff at the Walker Art Gallery have been mischievously pointing it out to (adult) visitors for years : )”. More than … Continue reading “There is salt on the shadow,
but no shadow on the salt.”
more Retweeted by Musée Unterlinden (2017-12-27, 2022-06-20): Another finding (bycatch from my Snark hunt): more 2017-12-27, updated: 2022-06-20
This is a bycatch from my Snark hunt: Segment from a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias Grünewald‘s The Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1512-1516) I discovered that “face” in Matthias Grünewald’s painting in 2018, but perhaps I was not the first one. I think that Gustave Doré found it already in the year 1863 … Continue reading “Monstrous Heads”
Illustration drawn by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (engraved by Hall…) to Edward Jones’s Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784) [main image]: John Martin, The Bard (ca. 1817); by GIMP: contrast enhanced in the rock area & light areas delated. [inset]: Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain), illustration (1876) to the chapter The Beaver’s … Continue reading “The Bard”
[main image]: John Martin, The Bard (ca. 1817); by GIMP: contrast enhanced in the rock area & light areas delated. [inset] Henry Holiday (engraver: Joseph Swain), Illustration (1876) to the chapter The Beaver’s Lesson in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, detail Bycatch (found in 2013) from my Snark hunt: [left] from Maurits … Continue reading “The Bard”
Bycatch (but not mine): [left]: John Tenniel: Alice on the Train (1872) [right]: Augustus Leopold Egg: The Travelling Companions (1862) I found the comparison in preraphaelitesisterhood.com. If it is a pictorial reference at all, it might be a nice pun by Tenniel, but not as challenging as Henry Holiday’s conundrums. Playing with the work of … Continue reading “Alice on the Train”
Bycatch from my Snark hunt: I discovered that “face” in Matthias Grünewald’s painting in 2018, but perhaps I was not the first one. I think that Gustave Doré found it already in the year 1863 when looking for inspiration from other artwork. more 2018-09-21, update: 2021-04-18
Bycatch from my Snark hunt: [background]: Sir John Tenniel: Alice & Cheshire Cat (1866 or 1869?) vintageephemera.blogspot.de/2010/08/book-illustration-cheshire-cat-alices.html [center right]: Magic lantern slide by William Robert Hill: Alice in Wonderland (1876) twitter.com/Bonnetmaker/status/525660964700848129 [bottom center]: Bonomi Edward Warren: Sportsman and dog on a wooded path (1868, watercolor) [bottom right]: Bonomi Edward Warren: Woodland Scene in Summer with … Continue reading “Alice in the Woods”
Bycatch from my Snark hunt: The, well, ambiguity of that “shadow”is known. Also there were some Freudian assumptions regarding what the salt could stand for. But so far I didn’t find any remarks on the impossibility of having a shadow being covered by white salt which isn’t covered by that shadow. To someone who learned … Continue reading “Lorenzo and Isabella”
About 10 years ago I found out that Henry Holiday's Snark illustrations contained several references to artwork from other artists, father+son Marcus Gheeraerts among them. John Tufail's suggestion (the night sky as a map) made me search for a Gheeraerts painting with a map. pic.twitter.com/6gBJhThN9K — Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 30, 2019 @snark150 is … Continue reading “Favourite Tweets”
Isenheim Altarpiece fully open. St. Anthony, patron of the sick, is in center & both wings, because it was made for a hospital in 1515. Amazing work by Matthias Grünewald, whose day is today. pic.twitter.com/CRBIK0pqbc — Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) August 31, 2018 #CurrentMood "Saint Anthony and Saint Paul the #Hermit Meeting", Isenheim Altarpiece (detail), … Continue reading “Twitter: Grünewald – Doré – Holiday”
Bycatch from my snark hunt:
Bycatch by Margaret Aston