A thread on some links between art and literature...
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Sethos I Before Horus, by Unknown Artist (c.1280 BCE)
Sethos I was the father of Ramesses II (also known as Ozymandias). In the wallpainting, Sethos is receiving pharaonic regalia to emphasise his power and military success.
Link: Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sethos I was the father of Ramesses II (also known as Ozymandias). In the wallpainting, Sethos is receiving pharaonic regalia to emphasise his power and military success.
Link: Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci (1503)
The smile of Mona Lisa, also known as a Lisa Gherardini, is playful and ambiguous – almost like she is hiding a secret.
Link: My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning
The smile of Mona Lisa, also known as a Lisa Gherardini, is playful and ambiguous – almost like she is hiding a secret.
Link: My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1558)
An illustration of the dangers of pride and ambition. From soaring so high, Icarus is barely noticeable after his fall and life simply carries on around him.
Link: Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
An illustration of the dangers of pride and ambition. From soaring so high, Icarus is barely noticeable after his fall and life simply carries on around him.
Link: Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump, by Joseph Wright of Derby (1768)
A wild-eyed scientist, onlookers who seem both intrigued and horrified, and a strong contrast between darkness and light.
Link: Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
A wild-eyed scientist, onlookers who seem both intrigued and horrified, and a strong contrast between darkness and light.
Link: Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich (1818)
A melancholy figure stands alone amidst a sweepingly dynamic, powerful landscape.
Link: The Prelude, by William Wordsworth
A melancholy figure stands alone amidst a sweepingly dynamic, powerful landscape.
Link: The Prelude, by William Wordsworth
Anatomical Pieces, by Théodore Géricault (1818-20)
A brutal, unglamorous and disturbing picture of body parts that seem to have been carelessly discarded and thrown into a pile.
Link: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
A brutal, unglamorous and disturbing picture of body parts that seem to have been carelessly discarded and thrown into a pile.
Link: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Norwegian Mountain Landscape, by Johan Cristian Dahl (1819)
The rocks in Johan Dahl’s Norwegian Mountain Landscape first appear to be gentle and inviting, but on a second glance seem much more dramatic and threatening.
Link: The Prelude, by William Wordsworth
The rocks in Johan Dahl’s Norwegian Mountain Landscape first appear to be gentle and inviting, but on a second glance seem much more dramatic and threatening.
Link: The Prelude, by William Wordsworth
The City, by August Strindberg (1903)
The sea is darkly turbulent and the grey sky is full of menace. The city of the Stockholm, brightly lit in the distance, is made to seem very small by comparison.
Link: Storm on the Island, by Seamus Heaney
The sea is darkly turbulent and the grey sky is full of menace. The city of the Stockholm, brightly lit in the distance, is made to seem very small by comparison.
Link: Storm on the Island, by Seamus Heaney
Metropolis, by George Grosz (1916-17)
A blood red, claustrophobic cityscape in which ghostly figures seem to climb, trample and scramble away from imminent danger.
Link: London, by William Blake
A blood red, claustrophobic cityscape in which ghostly figures seem to climb, trample and scramble away from imminent danger.
Link: London, by William Blake
Invasion Pattern, Normandy, by Eric Aldwinckle (1945)
A strangely calm image that, at least initially, doesn’t seem to depict a battle scene. The distance of the viewer’s perspective evokes a fleeting sense of contemplation and control.
Link: Kamikaze, by Beatrice Garland
A strangely calm image that, at least initially, doesn’t seem to depict a battle scene. The distance of the viewer’s perspective evokes a fleeting sense of contemplation and control.
Link: Kamikaze, by Beatrice Garland
Izzy Orts, by Edward Burra (1955)
The vacant, troubled stare of the sailor in the foreground contrasts with the celebratory scene behind him. He seems completely out of place and isolated whilst life goes on around him.
Link: Remains, by Simon Armitage
The vacant, troubled stare of the sailor in the foreground contrasts with the celebratory scene behind him. He seems completely out of place and isolated whilst life goes on around him.
Link: Remains, by Simon Armitage
Painting 150, by Manolo Millares (1961)
A dark, abstract image evocative of a primitive human body in the throes of both construction and deconstruction.
Links: Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
A dark, abstract image evocative of a primitive human body in the throes of both construction and deconstruction.
Links: Jekyll and Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
War, by Marc Chagall (1964-66)
An overcrowded cart leaves a burning city as people twist in anguish and despair. A white lamb is clearly visible, placed next to a shadowy image of Jesus to represent the sacrifice of innocent people.
Link: War Photographer, by Carol Ann Duffy
An overcrowded cart leaves a burning city as people twist in anguish and despair. A white lamb is clearly visible, placed next to a shadowy image of Jesus to represent the sacrifice of innocent people.
Link: War Photographer, by Carol Ann Duffy
View of Madrid from Torres Blancas, by Edward Burra (1976-82)
The soft morning light helps to transform what would ordinarily be a mundane, ugly cityscape into something altogether more beautiful and majestic.
Link: The Emigrée, by Carol Rumens
The soft morning light helps to transform what would ordinarily be a mundane, ugly cityscape into something altogether more beautiful and majestic.
Link: The Emigrée, by Carol Rumens
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