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Interesting or favourite art

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This is a curious illustration from a poetry book published in the 1920s, the illustrator is Harry Clarke who I hadn’t heard of before. It is to my mind in the same genre as Audrey Beardsley. Some of his others in the book are in colour and most attractive, it reminds me of that group of artist what Id call faerie art. Im not an expert in art but given that poetry is my thing Ive bought the book second hand, it is called The Year’s at the Spring, it is an anthology of popular poetry from that time. I found it as I was looking for more of Alice Meynell’s poetry and she is one of the contributors.  

Id be interested to see what art appeals to others. On the advice of another member the file is a screenshot of the larger image, so small enough to upload, hence its lack of resolution  

Alice

  • 'The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke', by Richard Dadd is a fascinating painting with a sad story behind it.

  • Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński has to be my favorite. His surrealist horror paintings are so fascinating to look at. So intricate and unnerving.

  • What a lovely illustration! I don't know much about art styles, but it reminds me of the pictures on my oracle cards because of how intricately detailed it is

  • I need to think about artists, but I really love that image, my eye just keeps getting drawn around the image at all the exquisite detail. Thank you for such a visual treat.

  • I'd never heard of Harry Clark before, but I like the picture you posted and I like Aubrey Beardley too, there are some pottery works called the fairy pattern, but naturally I can't find them, but they're very beautiful and vibrant and quite valuable.

    I'm not a fan of pop art or cartoon styles, or much modern art to be honest. There's also a difference in what I'd like to see in a gallery and what I'd want to live with, I love Carravagio, but I'm not sure I could live with his art, Van Gough I could, I quite like the Pre-Raphelites too, they're more livable with, but a bit over done.

    I like watercolours of landscapes, but not to wishy washy, but I'm not a fan of acrylics, somehow to me the pigments look wrong.

    I did try and do art for several years, but gave it up as I just didn't improve and couldn't get what was in my head out into the world, the only media I've ever found artistic satisfaction from was hairdressing, when a combination of cut and colour created a living sculpture. I used to love working with chalk pastels, I could have a rack of chalk pastels as an art instalation as well as one of those circular racks of embrodery threads I think the colours attract me the most.

  • Hello, Alice. I really like anime and manga art, I'm also an artist myself. This is the last thing I drew

    (hope swimsuits aren't considered too racey for this forum. I don't normally draw my characters like this)

    You can also check out more of my work here https://globalcomix.com/a/jam-2 and here https://www.webtoons.com/p/community/en/u/_zh3bp0 

    but my own art aside, I really like the art of Osamu Tezuka, Akira Toriyama, Yusuke Murata, Hayao Miyazaki and Hitoshi Ariga, they're some of my favourite manga artists. I'm still really sad about Toriyama-Sensei's death back in 2024