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Ricki Yasha TarrWhen I was little, someone showed me the painting Where The Bears Picnic aka The Bear Dance, and I had so much FOMO, that animals were having secret parties I wasn't invited to.
Share a piece of art that had an effect on you as a small child too!
Nick@RickiTarr If you go down to the woods today, you’d better go in disguise.
rainey 🌻The Voice of the Winds, by Rene Magritte. It has a very heavy sci-fi feel to it. I was mesmerized.
manic pixie donkey kong
Jae@raineyday @RickiTarr gosh yes, you can just imagine that on the cover of a 1970s Poul Anderson paperback or something
NormanDunbar@raineyday @RickiTarr I saw this and thought Pink Floyd!
Now that you mention it...!
@raineyday @RickiTarr The 'Voice of the Winds' does sound like a Floyd album title too!
TormodI was thinking "oh, a cool Bryce-render from 1998" or something. "Shiny spheres over water" was a whole category of posts back then - this was unexpectedly over solid ground 😄
GeoffreyWinn@RickiTarr Being a kid whose head was involuntarily filled with religious terror, I was absolutely scared shitless by a painting of the last judgment/judgment day in a reference book we had, an encyclopaedia type thing. It might not have actually been the Bosch painting of it, but it was Bosch-like, with lots of horrors like people rising from their graves, being thrown into flames, tortured by demons, others marching up to heaven in the nude etc. It was A Lot.
Mat BIt's funny you should say this, when I was about 7 we'd visit my parents best friends, a hippy/stoner couple (not that I knew that at the time but their house was very different to my straight laced folks), who had a fireguard with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch on it. I would sit on the floor studying it for ages every time we visited.
I was, and still am, mesmerized by it. Like absolutely nothing I'd ever seen before.
In hindsight I think that explains a lot 🫠
@TwoClownsEating @RickiTarr Lot of bums in that painting. The garden of unearthly bums, it should have been called.
@TwoClownsEating @RickiTarr Of course the bums do follow you round the room, because that’s the sign of a good painting.
I've got a fine art degree and this is the first thing you're taught.
David Cohen@Nickiquote @TwoClownsEating @RickiTarr Bosch makes butts? Had no idea they did garden stuff, I thought they were just about the power tools. Still, good to have a diverse product line.
jamesb (MW1CGG)@jamesb @Nickiquote @RickiTarr
No, Hampton, Middlesex.
@jamesb @TwoClownsEating @RickiTarr Maybe it was more common than we think. Green lady portrait above the mantle, flying ducks on the wall and an Unearthly Bumgarden fireguard.
@Nickiquote @jamesb @RickiTarr
I think it's kind of fitting, a fireguard that actually draws the curious and darker spirited children closer to the fire.
Dr Alice Violett@TwoClownsEating @Nickiquote @jamesb @RickiTarr what if you had a Bumgarden fireguard *and* a Crying Boy print? 😮
@alicemcalicepants @Nickiquote @jamesb @RickiTarr
Sounds like a case for operation yewtree.
AlexanderVI@RickiTarr easy. It's "Raven and the First Men", by Bill Reid at the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
It's big. It looks very cool. The museum guides tell the story, in a space purpose built for gathering, beneath a great skylight.
To a little kid, all very impactful. And I guess I will always be a little kid in my encounters with it. It has, to me, a kind of irresistible artistic gravity.
I make a beeline any time I am in Vancouver, as should everyone else.
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@AlexanderVI @RickiTarr Oh my. "OK kids, let's walk over to the other side for a different view!"
@AlexanderVI @RickiTarr Remarkable what humans are capable of.
🌈🕯️Curious Magpie🕯️🌈@AlexanderVI that is a powerful piece! @RickiTarr
foo ✅@RickiTarr When a human enters the forest, the quantum field collapses and all the bears go back to normal
Carrie Shanafelt@RickiTarr In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the youngest girl Lucy gets into Narnia and is immediately met by queer icon Mr. Tumnus, who lives alone, reads a lot, and knows how to make perfect little tea snacks, and tells stories about his favorite orgies and plays his recorder, and I'm pretty sure this illustration made me 30% gayer than I would have been otherwise. I know he's trying to sell her to the White Witch, but you know this is how he is with everyone he picks up in the woods.
@RickiTarr I am pretty sure I give off Mr. Tumnus vibes, finally, at 46. Look at me being very socially appropriate and agreeable, please, but understand this is a choice I am making!
Steve GisselbrechtI have been compared to Mr. Tumnus nonironically and I am proud of this. (It's the cakes, mostly.)
@carrideen I REMEMBER THIS! It's so cozy
Nazo@carrideen @RickiTarr It has been a long long long time since I read those books, so I had forgotten most of this stuff. Given the very unsubtle religious parallels in general in those books I wonder what C.S. Lewis was trying to do with this then.
Roy -- the dull oneI remember a reference book on various artists. One painting was of a native American elder, alone, hugging a telegraph pole in swirling snow. Unarmed, with no other living thing in sight. Story was, the old man left his village to die, not wishing to further strain his family during terrible winter famine.
I've searched online for the painting, but all I find is similar yet very different. Maybe I transformed it in my memory. But I love the memory.
Nic Dafis@RickiTarr I had quite an art-free childhood, sadly, but I suppose I started feeling some kind of hiraeth when I came across Tolkien's illustrations to The Hobbit, then the maps in LOTR, and then BANG Jimmy Cauty’s posters, which still give me shivers, and might be in my mum's attic, we'll see.
@nic Gorgeous
@nic @RickiTarr I had this Hobbit poster on my wall and used to stare at it a lot. https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115895080133222796
Nick (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The version of the Hobbit we had wasn’t illustrated, although it had Tolkien’s Smaug on the cover, but I had a promotional Hobbit poster from the Scholastic book club on my bedroom wall and I was fascinated with it. This is the poster.
That’s Brian Froud, yes? Didn’t know he’d done Tolkien stuff but of course it makes sense.
@nic @RickiTarr Paul Bonner, apparently?
@Nickiquote ah, ok, heavy Froud vibes, especially in the characters bottom right, which are very Dark Crystally. Alan Lee was another big name for me early 80s, especially his Mabinogion, then his stuff was all over Jackson's LOTR and that just *is* Middle Earth now.
@nic Yes I got the Alan Lee Hobbit just recently!
Nick (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I went for this version in the end with lovely Alan Lee illustrations. Thanks to @[email protected] and everyone else. #Tolkien
@Nickiquote I actually got rid of my copy of Lee's illustrated LOTR not so long ago, not because I don't like his pictures, but because it's too big a book to read comfortably, and I've got a nice set of 1970s Unwin paperbacks which just feel right to me.
@nic My Dad had this set, which I guess might be the same as yours. The spines were faded exactly as in these photos. Lovely design though.
https://www.abebooks.com/Lord-Rings-Tolkien-art-sleeve-1974/31580842212/bd#&gid=undefined&pid=1
The Lord of the Rings with Tolkien art in sleeve from 1974, by Unwin Books by Tolkien, J.R.R.: Very Good Soft cover (1974) | Tolkien Library
Soft cover - Unwin Books - 1974 - Condition: Very Good - The Lord of the Rings with Tolkien art in sleeve from 1974, by Unwin Books. A nice set of The Lord of the Rings paperbacks, with Tolkien art on the open-ended sleeve and covers, Unwin Books Edition 1974 This set includes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. The Fellowship of the Ring is the 1st impression, 1974, by Unwin Books. The Two Towers is the 1st impression, 1974, by Unwin Books. The Return of the King is the 1st impression, 1974, by Unwin Books. ISBN unknown. 1st impression paperbacks - issued in an open-ended sleeve illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien. These books were produced for export only. These paperbacks books are in good condition with the usual wear at the corners. The Two Towers appears to be read as you can see it at the spine. All three paperbacks have a previous owner inscription from December 1974. The open-ended sleeve has minimal wear around the edges, but the right top corner has a small tear. Some minor rubbing to bottom of the sleeve. Overall a very impressive fine looking set. A nice paperback set of The Lord of the Rings, in an open-ended sleeve, with art on sleeve and covers by Tolkien, released by Unwin Books in 1974. - The Lord of the Rings with Tolkien art in sleeve from 1974, by Unwin Books
@Nickiquote Mine aren't as nice as those, and might be a bit later, but they're the same ones as I read originally... ah, here they are (no slip case, sadly)
jabsonik@nic @RickiTarr Uuu, I had that one! I wonder when I lost it… :-/
Enema Cowboy@RickiTarr
I have that painting on my wall!
I have that painting on my wall!
Lorraine 💜🦜🎶🍀🤘This painting has been in either my mother's home or mine for as long as I can remember.
My mother and sister both convinced me that the child was actually me. I never questioned it. Not once.
Until I learned, as an adult, the child was a male.
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸
taxet@grumpydad @RickiTarr ah yes, the official Finnish national mascot for children’s nightmares.
J.D. MacLeod 🇨🇦@RickiTarr this print hung in our kitchen for all of our childhood and teenage lives. Its impossible, strait-laced perfection rankled us kids (since it did not reflect our own lives at all). We eventually christened the family James Wilson, his wife Susan, and daughter Elizabeth, and my little brother and I sometimes wrote James WIlson fanfic.
The gallant knight@johncomic @RickiTarr This is awesome, love it!
prozacchiwawa@RickiTarr i didn't know him by name then, but my parents had a couple of books of stewart cowley's art and i loved them:
https://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com/2011/09/spacecraft-2000-to-2100-ad-stewart.html
https://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com/2011/09/spacecraft-2000-to-2100-ad-stewart.html
@prozacchiwawa @RickiTarr I also like the works of Peter Elson a lot
sollat@RickiTarr
The book Masquerade and the idea that a jeweled golden hare was somewhere out in the real world waiting to be found.
TatiMitStift@RickiTarr
We had this Grimm's Fairytales edition with black and white drawings in them. The one that is burned into my mind doesn't exist, funny enough. It is the Cover of the book, but in the black and white style of the pictures inside. 😅
We had this Grimm's Fairytales edition with black and white drawings in them. The one that is burned into my mind doesn't exist, funny enough. It is the Cover of the book, but in the black and white style of the pictures inside. 😅
