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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them in my iPad. These stories started their journey with me when I was very young.”

—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books

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theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/

The Guardian · Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson PeakBy Guardian staff reporter
#Scottish#literature#19thcentury
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”

—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post

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The Washington Post · More than a century later, the wonderful work of Andrew Lang holds up remarkably wellBy Michael Dirda
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“His own fairy narratives, however, and their success in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, suggest… that fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”

—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-

The Bottle Imp · 'A Shy and Fugitive People': Andrew Lang and the Fairies - The Bottle ImpFor Andrew Lang, the realm of fairy land was synonymous with escape. Writing in The New Princeton Review in 1888, the same year in which he assembled his authoritative edition of Perrault’s fairy tales and completed his own novel about fairy abduction The Gold of Fairnilee, Lang lamented the insistence in modern writing upon the ‘ugly, manly face […]
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Coreyartus Imagery

Finished this up on my livestream yesterday. I think I had computer problems that were causing MakerTube to freak out a bit… I re-uploaded the recording, so the creation of this piece is all there now.

Here’s the speedpaint: makertube.net/w/2aAsvstzyV9jcE

And here are the two livestream recordings:

Pt 1: makertube.net/w/hDHkDtGCbnXf5Q
Pt 2: makertube.net/w/2hKfgDLc9MFD9z

Illustration of a moment inspired by the Little Mermaid where she looks up at a ship on the surface of the water in a sunset. Bubbles surround her as she is darkly lit in shadows and water. Deep textures and layers of colors descending from golden oranges and yellows at the top through teals to dark blues and purples at the bottom. The entire image is stylized with embossed lines in the the style of Art Nouveau.
#MastoArt#Art#IndieArtist
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Feral Strumpet

Spinning Frigg Vintage Fairytale Pin: A beautiful vintage brass pin of a woman with her distaff and spinning wheel. Pin measures just over 1 3/4" (4.5cm) wide. 

Frigg is the Norse Goddess of spinning-- it is said that she spun the clouds and you can see her spinning wheel in the sky as the constellation known as Orion's Belt.

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A close-up photo of a vintage brass pin in the palm of a hand. Pin depicts a scene of a woman with her distaff and spinning wheel. The woman is seated in silhouette, in an ornate throne surrounded by ornate floral motifs. Pin measures just over 1 3/4" (4.5cm) wide.
A close-up photo of a vintage brass pin in the palm on a dark grey slate background. Pin depicts a scene of a woman with her distaff and spinning wheel. The woman is seated in silhouette, in an ornate throne surrounded by ornate floral motifs. Pin measures just over 1 3/4" (4.5cm) wide.
A close-up photo of a the reverse side of the same vintage brass pin, showing an old-fashioned pin & clasp.
A photo of the same vintage brass pin of a woman with her distaff and spinning wheel. The pin in lying on the red textured cover of an old-fashioned book, next to a raw quartz crystal and round clear crystal orb.
#Spinning#Accessories#FairyTale
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Coreyartus Imagery

Got this piece completed this morning. It’s a riff on “Jack & the Beanstalk”.

I tried some foil-looking thing for the leaves this time, and I don’t think it’s as effective here as it could be for something that really needs something shiny or sparkly—like Cinderella, maybe? Hm.

Anyway, it’s done! All me and Procreate—not a lick of AI involved at all. Hate the stuff.

I’m actually really really happy with it! This was a stretch for me, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned this last week is that stretching is important. My stiff, sore body can attest to that.

Illustrated piece inspired by “Jack & the Beanstalk”, done in a heavily textured Art Nouveau style. It features a stylized beanstalk on the left, clouds at the top, and a painterly sky in the background. A small Jack figure is at the bottom ascending the stalk. Canvas textures, raised piped stripes of “clay”, and painterly distressing are included. Colors are predominantly greens, blues, and browns.
#art#MastoArt#Fairytale
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Swaantje Güntzel
STERNTALER / THE STAR MONEY

Contemporary interpretation of the fairytale "Sterntaler" (engl. “The Star Money or Start Talers”) from the Children‘s and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm. The artist gazes into the evening sky, where a string of Starlink satellites manufactured by SpaceX can be seen flying in a row alongside stylized stars. The work is a collaboration between Swaantje Güntzel and the Darmstadt-based photographer Andreas Zierhut. It was created during an Artist-in-Science Residency Güntzel held at the European Space Agency (ESA/ESOC) in Darmstadt in 2022, realized by Kultur einer Digitalstadt (KeD).

The work is currently on display in the exhibition "Infinity - Emptiness - Liveliness" at Planetarium Hamburg. Organized by Junge Akademie, curated by Anne Hemkendreis. The exhibition can be visited until May 31st, 2025.

Swaantje Güntzel, Andreas Zierhut, 2022
Sterntaler
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120 x 80 cm
Foto: Andreas Zierhut

#art #contemporaryart #kunst #zeitgenössischekunst #conceptualart #konzeptkunst #womensart #womenartists #esa #europeanspaceagency #starlink #spacex #spacedebris #space #satellites #andreaszierhut #darmstadt #kultureinerdigitalstadt #fotografie #photography #raumfahrt #planetariumhamburg #jungeakademie #annehemkendreis #weltraumschrott #europäischeweltraumagentur #märchen #fairytale #sterntaler #gebrüdergrimm #thestarmoney #brothersgrimm #thebrothersgrimm #artistinscience #artistresidency #artistresidence
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