Comments on: The faces of Parsifal http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:17:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/comment-page-1/#comment-99271 John Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:55:06 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/#comment-99271 Hi Jim and thanks for commenting. I realised when I put this post together that your picture was less close to Delville's than I remembered which made me suspect I was probably making the connection myself. I'm not so sure Barney Bubbles borrowed from it either so that just leaves Stanley Mouse and I! One reason I try not to say "X must have been inspired by Y" is because I've had similar instances myself of people assuming one of my works had a specific origin when this wasn't the case at all. Hi Jim and thanks for commenting. I realised when I put this post together that your picture was less close to Delville’s than I remembered which made me suspect I was probably making the connection myself. I’m not so sure Barney Bubbles borrowed from it either so that just leaves Stanley Mouse and I! One reason I try not to say “X must have been inspired by Y” is because I’ve had similar instances myself of people assuming one of my works had a specific origin when this wasn’t the case at all.

]]> By: Jim Lamb http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/comment-page-1/#comment-99195 Jim Lamb Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:33:26 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/#comment-99195 I tripped over your web site tonight by accident. It was very interesting to me to see the image you posted entitled Parsifal by Jean Delville (1890). The thing that intrigued me about seeing the image is that I had never heard of this artist or seen his image until tonight. As the artist for the covers for all 7 of the Charles Williams series by Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishers, I read most of the novels before I illustrated the covers for them, and the images I developed came directly from the readings of the texts. I must say it is a bit eery to see the resemblance in the Delville image and the one I created, having never seen his work before. Incidentally, you are close. The series was reprinted by Eerdman's in 1980. I tripped over your web site tonight by accident.

It was very interesting to me to see the image you posted entitled Parsifal by Jean Delville (1890). The thing that intrigued me about seeing the image is that I had never heard of this artist or seen his image until tonight. As the artist for the covers for all 7 of the Charles Williams series by Wm. B. Eerdman’s Publishers, I read most of the novels before I illustrated the covers for them, and the images I developed came directly from the readings of the texts. I must say it is a bit eery to see the resemblance in the Delville image and the one I created, having never seen his work before. Incidentally, you are close. The series was reprinted by Eerdman’s in 1980.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/comment-page-1/#comment-67566 John Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:10:33 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/#comment-67566 Hi Mike. Offhand I would have said "Naaah...Mucha!" but looking at it again he's got the sphere above the head and the shape of the hair as well. So it's worth noting above. Hi Mike. Offhand I would have said “Naaah…Mucha!” but looking at it again he’s got the sphere above the head and the shape of the hair as well. So it’s worth noting above.

]]> By: mike http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/comment-page-1/#comment-65648 mike Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:05:26 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2008/09/07/the-faces-of-parsifal/#comment-65648 john, does this tilted back head remind you of the space ritual sleeve? that's what first sprang to my mind. mike john,
does this tilted back head remind you of the space ritual sleeve?
that’s what first sprang to my mind.
mike

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