“That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.”
—Seamus Heaney, born on this day in 1939.
Vera Idelson. Costume Design Illustrations for Italian Futurist Play The Anguish of the Machines by Ruggero Vasari. 1923.
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A BESTIARY: Golem
11 inches by 14 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
May 22, 2014
I’m in the latest issue of the French magazine Télérama, which is devoted entirely to Shakespeare. I chose the women in Shakespeare as the subject I wanted to illustrate most & so got to do this fun spread on women in general and Lady Macbeth, Portia & Ophelia in particular. Thank you to AD Catherine Le Gallou. (There are a lot of amazing illustrators in this issue, including Christophe Blain & Gipi!)
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Georges de Feure, La source du mal [The Spring of Evil], 1894. Color lithograph, 22 5/8 x 16 1/16 inches (57.5 x 40.8 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Purchase. Photograph by Brian Forrest.
Still of Jonathan Pryce and Michael Palin, from Brazil (1985). Source.
“So much of the fantasy I see is just a sort of cartoon romp, a kind of wish-fulfillment. I remember, years ago, talking to George Lucas about evil. He thought Darth Vader was evil. And I said, "No, he’s not evil. He’s just the bad guy. You can see him coming a mile away—he wears black. Evil is Mike Palin in Brazil, your best friend, the father of three, a good man, who just does what he does.” [Palin’s Brazil character was a nervous, mild-mannered government torturer. —ed.]“
- Terry Gilliam interviewed by The AV Club, 2003
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