{"id":17134,"date":"2015-08-13T01:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T00:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17134"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:52:44","slug":"the-king-in-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/08\/13\/the-king-in-green\/","title":{"rendered":"The King in Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hastur-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hastur.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hastur.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hastur (1999) by John Coulthart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Going through some of my old Lovecraft art this week it occurred to me that this drawing hadn&#8217;t been made public in its original colour form. <em>Hastur<\/em> appears as a murkier black-and-white illustration in the <em>Great Old Ones<\/em> series I produced in collaboration with Alan Moore for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/books\/the-haunter-of-the-dark\/\"><em>The Haunter of the Dark<\/em><\/a>. The drawing was one of several improvised pieces made using coloured pencils on tinted paper. Some people may regard this and similar works as &#8220;Gigeresque&#8221; but I only apply that label to close imitations of HR Giger&#8217;s biomechanical style. This type of improvised drawing or painting predates Giger\u2014Max Ernst&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamula.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/decalcomania.html\" target=\"_blank\">decalcomania<\/a> paintings being familiar examples\u2014and you see similar fields of organic or mineral forms in the work of other Surrealist or Fantastic artists. If you have some ability with a pencil or paintbrush it&#8217;s relatively easy to produce a lot of this kind of work; the challenge is to do something more than create a mass of writhing abstraction.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-lovecraft-archive\/\">The Lovecraft archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hastur (1999) by John Coulthart. Going through some of my old Lovecraft art this week it occurred to me that this drawing hadn&#8217;t been made public in its original colour form. Hastur appears as a murkier black-and-white illustration in the Great Old Ones series I produced in collaboration with Alan Moore for The Haunter of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/08\/13\/the-king-in-green\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The King in Green&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,42,22,26,23],"tags":[103,1687,720,112,6340],"class_list":["post-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-work","tag-alan-moore","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-hr-giger","tag-max-ernst","tag-the-king-in-yellow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134","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=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}