Cathartes.
Paintings from this gallery of portraits and still lifes. I suspect Jeff VanderMeer would appreciate the Manfungus series. Via Chateau Thombeau.
Manfungus 1.4.
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• The fantastic art archive
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New Austin Spare grimoires
The latest Starfire catalogue has news of the unearthing of two unfinished grimoires by Austin Osman Spare both of which are due for publication later this year. The two books—The Focus of Life & The Papyrus of Amen-AOS and The Arcana of AOS & the Consciousness of Kia-Ra—date from 1905–06 and I presume the picture from the catalogue shown above is from one of these. No details yet as to price of either volume. Via Arthur.
These two grimoires by Spare are at once enigmatic and full of haunting beauty. The paintings and drawings from each notebook are here reproduced in full colour. With analytical essays by Michael Staley, Stephen Pochin and William Wallace, and an introduction by Robert Ansell, this publication adds to our understanding of Spare’s early years as an artist, mystic and philosopher, and sheds light on the early development of his sigillisation techniques.
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• Austin Spare absinthe
• Austin Spare’s Behind the Veil
• Austin Osman Spare
The art of Yannis Tsarouchis, 1910–1989
Man with butterfly wings sitting on his heels, study from life (1965).
Two paintings by Greek artist Yannis Tsarouchis among whose homoerotic works can be found obsessively recurrent depictions of men with butterfly wings. Via Bajo el Signo de Libra.
Winged spirit buttoning his underpants (1966).
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• The gay artists archive
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• Butterfly women
Schott’s Physica Curiosa
Pages from Physica Curiosa (1697) by Gaspar Schott, a collection of natural anomalies and the usual debatable creatures which belong in a fantastic bestiary. Some of these are similar to illustrations from the same period which I’ve used in Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, due for publication soon by Tachyon.
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• The etching and engraving archive
Secession posters
Alfred Roller (1901 & 02).
A selection of posters for the Vienna Secession at Lawrence University’s Art of the Poster site. Alfred Roller’s stylised lettering on the poster below was famously adapted by Wes Wilson for his psychedelic designs in the 1960s.
left: Koloman Moser (1902); right: Alfred Roller (1903).
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• The art of Henri Privat-Livemont, 1861–1936
• Wilhelm Kåge
• Art Nouveau illustration