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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: Happy 90th Birthday, Ronald Searle!

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Wednesday, 3 March 2010. Happy 90th Birthday, Ronald Searle! I love the billowy stomach set against the flat, stiff limbs in the drawing above. At some restaurants the wine is treated with such reverence and ceremony that the wine list might as well be delivered by the 'High Priest'. Love the use of straight lines and diagonals to emphasise the force here. I've only just noticed the pot-bellied bloke at far right, ogling the woman sitting opposite him. A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and Thou.'. I am look...

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: August 2008

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Saturday, 23 August 2008. David Hall and Alice in Wonderland. News of the upcoming 'Alice in Wonderland' adaptation from Tim Burton has brought me back to Disney's 1951 animated version. Though not the best Disney film, it is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and probably my favorite of Disney's 50s output - it does not work together cohesively as a whole, but showcases a great deal of imagination as far as style and staging are concerned. And Through the Looking Glass. Hall adapted many of Perkins...

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: Portfolio and CV

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Sunday, 10 January 2010. I've recently updated my CV and Portfolio, combining them as a single pdf. Included in the document are quite a few of my published and unpublished drawings, including many that aren't on the main site. If you want a copy, comment on this post with your email address, or email me. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Political Cartoon Blog. Bateman, H. M. Beaman, S. G. Hulme. Da Vinci, Leonardo. Lavater, Johann Gasper. Tenniel, Sir John. Sir John Tenniel and Jack the Ripper.

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: December 2008

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Tuesday, 9 December 2008. A friend rather better than I am at following the news just alerted me to this. Article, which presents a new theory on Massys' Grotesque Old Woman. The article suggests that Massys' modelled his Duchess on a real person: an old woman with a severe form of Paget's disease. Though this may initially seem to solve the mystery, it actually adds to the mystery by raising a couple of questions. First of all, who is Leonardo's drawing (above) of? Labels: alice in wonderland. This draw...

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Luke Farookhi - Illustrations and Caricatures - Links

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Luke Farookhi - Illustrations and Caricatures. My Political Cartoon Blog (updated regularly).

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: Sir John Tenniel & Jack the Ripper

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Tuesday, 12 January 2010. Sir John Tenniel and Jack the Ripper. No, this post isn't about the bizarre theory that Lewis Carroll was responsible for the Whitechapel murders (though the idea is too funny not to mention later in this post). It covers cartoons on 'Jack the Ripper' by John Tenniel, who is best known now for his Alice. Illustrations, but who was famous at the time as a cartoonist for satyrical magazine Punch, or the London Charivari. The list of real-life suspects grows steadily longer every y...

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: Harry Clarke and Goethe's 'Faust'

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Thursday, 26 March 2009. Harry Clarke and Goethe's 'Faust'. Above is an unfinished, and unpublished, illustration depicting Faust and Margaret from the 'Garden' scene in Faust. There were eventually 8 full-colour, full-page illustrations; eight full-page ink wash illustrations; six full-page illustrations in pure black line; and sixty-four black and white vignettes referringto 'incidents in the poem not covered by the full-page drawings.' Clarke's Faust. A dream world of half-created fantasies; the power...

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: March 2010

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Wednesday, 3 March 2010. Happy 90th Birthday, Ronald Searle! I love the billowy stomach set against the flat, stiff limbs in the drawing above. At some restaurants the wine is treated with such reverence and ceremony that the wine list might as well be delivered by the 'High Priest'. Love the use of straight lines and diagonals to emphasise the force here. I've only just noticed the pot-bellied bloke at far right, ogling the woman sitting opposite him. A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and Thou.'.

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: October 2008

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Friday, 31 October 2008. Some appropriate images for the occasion. Some of my favourite 'gothic horror' images - by some of my favourite artists - to get you in the right mood for the occasion. In a sense this is a taster of things to come; I will soon try to do a few posts about Anderson, Delacroix and Clarke's Faust. And (as always) Dore. S G HULME BEAMAN. S g hulme beaman. Thursday, 2 October 2008. Bateman: The Possibilities of a Vacuum Cleaner. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Political Cartoon Blog.

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The Garden of Unearthly Delights: March 2009

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Thursday, 26 March 2009. Harry Clarke and Goethe's 'Faust'. Above is an unfinished, and unpublished, illustration depicting Faust and Margaret from the 'Garden' scene in Faust. There were eventually 8 full-colour, full-page illustrations; eight full-page ink wash illustrations; six full-page illustrations in pure black line; and sixty-four black and white vignettes referringto 'incidents in the poem not covered by the full-page drawings.' Clarke's Faust. A dream world of half-created fantasies; the power...