#arthur rackman

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The Witches Sabbath - Arthur Rackham (original illustration but not used in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; 1924 Pen ink watercolour.

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In the holiday mood but want something to look at something classic instead of more modern iterations starring puppets? The digital library includes older editions of fiction books such as A Christmas Carol. Here are some examples from two versions from British illustrators Arthur Rackham and John Leech. A Christmas Carol isn’t the only holiday-themed story Dickens wrote. A year later, he made The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out. In it, a poor messenger is repeatedly downtrodden by the upper classes, who judge him for his inability to pay his debts and distribute meager charity like tyrants. He questions if all poor people are inherently immoral. He climbs a bell tower and meets the spirit of the bells and their goblin attendants, who reprimand him for losing faith in humanity. They say he died in the climb, and show a bleak future for everyone he left behind. As he laments what happens, he hears the bells again and wakes to a happier reality where his neighbors pitched in to help. The end of the book questions which ending was real. Curious about other historical fiction? Check out our Digital Library!

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Arthur Rackman - Illustration pour 'Songe d'une nuit d'été' 'Acte II, scène 1, 1908

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Arthur Rackman - Gulliver’s travels.

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one hellava story illustrator is; Arthur Rackman

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Some fairy tales date back to Bronze Age

Some fairy tales date back to Bronze Age

A research paper just publishedin the open access journal, “Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales,” has confirmed that some fairy tales have roots dating back thousands of years. The researchers, Sara Graça da Silva and Jamshid J. Tehrani, show that common fairy stories and legends not only resemble each other across languages and cultures, but…

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The Forbidden Forest -Warwickshire- Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The Forbidden forest is a grimm tale about an repulsive, cruel, old king who was refused by a beautiful maiden. From that day forwards he stated that ‘From know on, any maiden that takes my fancy is mine. And as soon as I tire of her, I shall kill her.’ This fair maiden was horrified that one day the king would capture her again, so she fled to her grand mothers who lived on the border of the kingdom. Horrified to leave he grand mothers house, she helped her grandma with her spinning and once a week, the old woman took the finished hanks of wool to sell in the market. 

One day her Grand mother feel ill. the girl had to take her place. She was told to beware of the forest and the trees as they had a mind of there own. During her journey she was spotted by the king. He chased her into the forest. Although he new about the dangerous oak tree he continued to ran after her even though the tress tried to cover her pathway. When he followed her to the cursed oak tree, there was a cracking noise and one of the oaks heavily branches crashed onto of the king crushing him to death. 

I found this story really influential as the author really brought these trees to life. I thought this would link in way with my project concept really well as I’m trying to give my trees more humanistic characters, for example giving them a personality, and humanistic physical features. 

Arthur Rackham: Arthur Rackham is very well known, traditional, illustrator. He is mainly know for his fantasy work. 

I think Arthur Rackman’s trees are really beautiful, I’m really fond of the detail he captures in the texture of his trees. I think its really effective how he captures the movement of the tree trunks as you can see the twisting and the turning of the tree and its bark. Arthur Rackham uses a mixture of water colours and inks to produce his paintings. I think the fact that Arthur Rackham really exaggerates the trunks of the trees to make them mimic more humanistic body figures, making the character look more human like making them more relate-table. 

I really love the colours that the Arthur Rackman uses in his work and his colour scheme is rather unsaturated making his work look rather sensitive. I find his work really delicate and intricate as he captures the texture of the bark really clearly. I also like the way he experiments with scale making the trees look overpowering over all his other characters in the picture.