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Masonism in Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Masonism in Mozart’s The Magic Flute
On the 30th of September 1791, the opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made its debut at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna. The piece was finished three months before the composer died of suspected rheumatoid fever at the young age of 35. Mozart scholar Maynard Solomon wrote that, “Although there were no reviews of the first performances, it was immediately evident that…
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On the 1st of October 1872, James Allen St. John, often referred to as ‘the godfather of modern fantasy art’, was born in Chicago, Illinois. His work set the spirit and rhythm for the important science fiction sub-genre of heroic fantasy illustration. St. John studied in Paris, Belgium and Holland and worked for most of his career in Chicago. Among his most active clients was the A. C. McClurg Company for which he illustrated many of the fantastic adventure novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The collaboration between Burroughs and St. John began in 1916 with illustrations to The Beasts of Tarzan. From then on Burroughs regarded St. John as the definite Tarzan artist for he was able to convey violent yet graceful, almost balletic movements in a manner that even today seems very fresh and dynamic. His illustration for the cover of Tarzan And The Jewels of Opar depicts a scene that one could almost immediately place within Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement’s figures. Similar kind of romantic heroism characterises the illustration to The Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
St. John’s unique style skilfully merged elements of Classicism, Romanticism, Mannerism and those from the edge of fantasy kitsch. His works have become an inspiration to many readers of Burroughs’ stories but also to generations of pulp fiction lovers. The term ‘pulp’ was derived from the kind of cheap wood pulp paper on which the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century fiction magazines were normally printed. Their cover illustrations were initially targeted for specific marketing purposes, but eventually gained recognition for their unique artistic values. St. John did cover illustrations for various pulp magazines, among others – ‘Amazing Stories’, ‘Fantastic Adventures’, ‘Fate’, ‘Other Worlds’, ‘Mystic Magazine’ or ‘Weird Tales’.
‘Weird Tales’ June 1932
‘Weird Tales’ December 1932
‘Weird Tales’ December 1936
See also a flick-through edition of ‘Weird Tales’ from October 1936:
http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/WT_1936_10/index.html
St. John’s other domain was portraiture. The influence came from his mother, who was a painter and a portraitist too. He perceived portraiture as a unique chance to tell a much in-depth story about a depicted person: “Portrait painting” he claimed, “appeals to me as one of the highest branches of the painter’s craft. So commonplace when stiffly and uninterestingly treated, but, on the other hand, presenting infinite possibilities when the idea of making it a work of art holds equal place with that of truthfully rendering the features. For instance, one should look at a portrait as something not merely a likeness or photographic copy of the face alone, but a thing that is the sitter himself, his personality, to the tips of his fingers, the wrinkle of his clothes; and the artist should draw all these in so broad and sympathetic a way that those who do not know the person may yet find pleasure in the counterfeit, the lighting and the harmony of colours. I have painted many portraits of widely different types, striving always for these points, and today I am completely fascinated by the exquisite pleasure of studying human nature and transferring it to canvas.”
In 1917 St. John began to teach Painting and Illustration classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, which he continued to do for the rest of his life. In 1928 he also taught a painting class at the Businessmen’s Art Association in Chicago, which was a private club for professional artists that worked for newspapers and advertising. Below – a very rare, if not the only footage of an art class during which James Allen St. John is demonstrating his unique painting techniques:
Film Credit: Stuart Fullerton
James Allen St. John: Tarzan and Pulp Fiction On the 1st of October 1872, James Allen St. John, often referred to as ‘the godfather of modern fantasy art’, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Breaking Boundaries in TV Drama
Breaking Boundaries in TV Drama
On the 29th of September 2013, the long-awaited final episode of American drama Breaking Bad (2008-2013) was aired to U.S. television audiences. Vince Gilligan’s AMC TV series turned out to be a complex and complicated work of cinematic art. The most striking first impression is the film’s atmospheric intensity. The warm hues of the American southwest landscape with its barren expanses are offset…
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English Utopia in the Art of Helen Allingham
English Utopia in the Art of Helen Allingham
On the 28th of September 1926, Victorian water-colourist and illustrator Helen Allingham, born Helen M. E. Paterson, died in Haslemere, Surrey, England. Her career “was circumscribed by, relied upon, and exceeded accepted norms of landscape painting in the nineteenth century. She painted out-of-doors, for example, a common mode of practice none the less considered suspect for respectable women…
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Drawing with Light: The Photographs of Olive Cotton
Drawing with Light: The Photographs of Olive Cotton
On the 27th of September 2003, modernist photographer Olive Cotton died in Koorawatha, New South Wales, Australia. Her work shows an interchange between the pictorialist style and ‘modernism’ (New Photography), which superseded the former in Australia in the 1930s. Cotton was introduced to the arts, science and a love of nature at an early age. Her mother, Florence, played the piano and painted,…
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Marcel Proust and his Mother: A Unique Bond
Marcel Proust and his Mother: A Unique Bond
On the 26th of September 1905, Jeanne Clémence Weil, mother of writer Marcel Proust, died in Ile de France, Paris. Madame Proust, as she was to be known, seeing as Marcel never got married, was born Jewish on both sides of her family. Her genealogy actually shows that Marcel Proust and Karl Marx were distant cousins, albeit seven generations apart. Jeanne was a sensitive, very intelligent, and…
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Aesthetic Delirium in Jack Smith's 'Flaming Creatures'
Aesthetic Delirium in Jack Smith’s ‘Flaming Creatures’
On the 25th of September 1989, American filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, and pioneer of underground cinema Jack Smith died in New York City, New York. From the early 1960s through most of the 1980s, he was a key figure in American avant-garde film and theatre. His works, marked by a deceptively playful camp sensibility, combine a flamboyant style with radical social and political…
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Gay Georgian London: Horace Walpole Amongst the 'Finger-Twirlers'
Gay Georgian London: Horace Walpole Amongst the ‘Finger-Twirlers’
On the 24th of September 1717, Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician, was born in London. Although the son of the first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, he is largely remembered in our times for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London, where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian…
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Paul Delvaux: Secret Facets of Surrealism
Paul Delvaux: Secret Facets of Surrealism
Sleeping Venus (1944) On the 23rd of September 1897, Belgian painter and printmaker Paul Delvaux was born in Antheit, Belgium. His original style and the mysterious, almost mystical, themes he employed in his art, place him outside ‘the box’ of any formal art movement. Between 1920 and 1924, Delvaux studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. His early work was close to Social Realism; in…
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The Musical Brush of M. K. Ciurlionis
The Musical Brush of M. K. Ciurlionis
On the 22nd of September 1875, Lithuanian painter, composer and writer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born in Senoji Varėna, the Russian Empire. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau at the turn of the century and is seen as one of the earliest experimenters with abstraction in European art. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum…
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Modernity and the Body: Sascha Schneider's Bodybuilders
Modernity and the Body: Sascha Schneider’s Bodybuilders
Hypnosis (1904) On the 21st of September 1870, German painter and sculptor Sascha Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. During his childhood his family lived in Zürich, Switzerland, but following the death of his father, Schneider moved to Dresden, Germany, where in 1889 he became a student at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1903 he met best-selling author Karl May, and…
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Gertrud Arndt: Photo Pioneer of Female 'Self-Disguise'
Gertrud Arndt: Photo Pioneer of Female ‘Self-Disguise’
On the 20th of September 1903, German Bauhaus photographer Gertrud Arndt was born in Hantschk Ratibor, Upper Silesia. Arndt studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau (under Klee, Gropius and Itten), where she subsequently also taught. Her primary discipline was weaving, her textile designs showcasing the rigid geometric pattern-making typical of the Bauhaus aesthetic. “She must have felt so optimistic.…
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Victorian Idyllism and Social Realism in Lionel Smythe’s Art
Victorian Idyllism and Social Realism in Lionel Smythe’s Art
On the 4th of September 1839, Royal Academician Lionel Percy Smythe, an English artist and etcher, was born in London. Smythe painted rural landscapes, genre and maritime scenes, people and animals in both oils and watercolours. He became associated with a group of artists called The Idyllic school (or the Idyllists), a 19th-century art movement of British artists—both painters and…
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American Concentration Camps in Masumi Hayashi's Photoramas
American Concentration Camps in Masumi Hayashi’s Photoramas
On the 3rd of September 1945, Japanese-American photographer Masumi Hayashi was born in Rivers, Arizona, in the Gila River War Relocation Camp, an internment camp built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Shortly after the end of the war, her family moved to Los Angeles, where she began her education, following which Hayashi moved to…
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Welcome to the Jungle... The Mindscapes of Henri Rousseau
Welcome to the Jungle… The Mindscapes of Henri Rousseau
On the 2nd of September 1910, French Naïve painter Henri Rousseau died in Paris aged 66. A puzzling cult figure during his lifetime, Rousseau was very much a self-taught artist with a unique style, famous most of all for his visionary jungle scenes. The inspiration for his art seems to have come from various sources. “During his 4-year term of military service he met soldiers who had survived the…
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"September 1, 1939": The Prophecies of W. H. Auden
”September 1, 1939” is a poem by W. H. Auden, an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. Auden moved from England to America at the beginning of 1939. Some perceived his move as a cowardly act of escape dictated by the rumours of the approaching military conflict in Europe. “From his newly adopted home Auden followed the troublesome…
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Helen Levitt's Snapshots of New York Street Life
Helen Levitt’s Snapshots of New York Street Life
On the 31st of August 1913, American photographer Helen Levitt was born in Brooklyn, New York. Alongside Berenice Abbott and Ruth Orkin, Levitt tried to document the changing life of New York. But whilst Berenice Abbott sought to capture the architecture of New York before the skyscrapers changed the skyline forever, and Ruth Orkin was trying to capture the changing tempo of the City from her…
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