Comments on: The Hound of Heaven by RH Ives Gammell http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/12/16/the-hound-of-heaven-by-rh-ives-gammell/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:55:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/12/16/the-hound-of-heaven-by-rh-ives-gammell/comment-page-1/#comment-43782 John Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:49:45 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2649#comment-43782 I don't look at games much any more although I usually enjoy their eye candy. One of those essays mentions Gammell being influenced by Jung's theories so he was evidently more concerned with deeper symbolism than most Christian painters. But then I think that shows in the compositions, they're more than mere illustrations. I love Frieda Harris's Tarot designs, especially the way they pushed the Tarot towards Modernism. From what I've seen of contemporary Tarot art, that still seems to be an unexplored path. I don’t look at games much any more although I usually enjoy their eye candy.

One of those essays mentions Gammell being influenced by Jung’s theories so he was evidently more concerned with deeper symbolism than most Christian painters. But then I think that shows in the compositions, they’re more than mere illustrations.

I love Frieda Harris’s Tarot designs, especially the way they pushed the Tarot towards Modernism. From what I’ve seen of contemporary Tarot art, that still seems to be an unexplored path.

]]> By: Wiley http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/12/16/the-hound-of-heaven-by-rh-ives-gammell/comment-page-1/#comment-43695 Wiley Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:55:44 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2649#comment-43695 Intriguing to say to the very least. The works shown in the article by Elizabeth Ives Hunter remind me of these strange 'living' still-life pictures shown during the mission briefings in the first few Thief games. The more recent game Bio Shock has much grandiose art and architecture in this vein haunting its crumbling, dystopian setting. In a sense its kind of distressing that games have become so artistic and real; it ensures children and even adults in wealthier countries will spend less and less time outside, and more time in a Tetsuo: Iron man - like setting. On the other hand, its kind of nice since most new cinema is utter shite. I definitely agree with the comment of them being Tarot-like. I am not sure how much their outlooks coincided or clashed, but Gammell's imagery reminds me quite a bit of that of Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Intriguing to say to the very least. The works shown in the article by Elizabeth Ives Hunter remind me of these strange ‘living’ still-life pictures shown during the mission briefings in the first few Thief games. The more recent game Bio Shock has much grandiose art and architecture in this vein haunting its crumbling, dystopian setting. In a sense its kind of distressing that games have become so artistic and real; it ensures children and even adults in wealthier countries will spend less and less time outside, and more time in a Tetsuo: Iron man – like setting. On the other hand, its kind of nice since most new cinema is utter shite.

I definitely agree with the comment of them being Tarot-like. I am not sure how much their outlooks coincided or clashed, but Gammell’s imagery reminds me quite a bit of that of Crowley’s Thoth Tarot.

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