{"id":14942,"date":"2014-02-26T02:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14942"},"modified":"2014-02-26T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T05:55:11","slug":"more-chimeras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/02\/26\/more-chimeras\/","title":{"rendered":"More chimeras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Chimera (1867) by Gustave Moreau.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no easy task to catalogue all the chimeras that proliferate between the numerous examples in the work of Gustave Moreau to those produced before the First World War. Consider this a sample, then, and a pointer to further research. Several of these artists\u2014Malczewski, Ernst, Brauner\u2014returned to theme many times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Sphinx: &#8220;My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon.&#8221; The Chimera: &#8220;I am weightless and joyful.&#8221; (1889) by Odilon Redon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Chimera&#8217;s Despair (1892) by Alexandre S\u00e9on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Pan and Chimera (c. 1895) by Luc-Olivier Merson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Artist and Chimera (1906) by Jacek Malczewski.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Sphinx and the Chimera (1906) by Louis Welden Hawkins.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Sphinx and the Chimera (1921) by John Singer Sargent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chimera (aka Astarte) (1926) by Nicholas Kalmakoff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chimera (1928) by Max Ernst.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Untitled (Chimera) (1940) by Victor Brauner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chimera11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chimera11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chim\u00e8re du soir (1961) by Leonor Fini.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/02\/25\/the-chimeras-of-dimitrie-paciurea\/\">The chimeras of Dimitrie Paciurea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chimera (1867) by Gustave Moreau. It&#8217;s no easy task to catalogue all the chimeras that proliferate between the numerous examples in the work of Gustave Moreau to those produced before the First World War. Consider this a sample, then, and a pointer to further research. Several of these artists\u2014Malczewski, Ernst, Brauner\u2014returned to theme many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/02\/26\/more-chimeras\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More chimeras&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,21,44,18,45],"tags":[648,5825,347,5827,1729,730,5828,5826,112,4790,126,3129],"class_list":["post-14942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fantasy","category-painting","category-surrealism","category-symbolists","tag-alexandre-seon","tag-dimitrie-paciurea","tag-gustave-moreau","tag-jacek-malczewski","tag-john-singer-sargent","tag-leonor-fini","tag-louis-welden-hawkins","tag-luc-olivier-merson","tag-max-ernst","tag-nicholas-kalmakoff","tag-odilon-redon","tag-victor-brauner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3T0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}