Eye Candy for Today: Bilibin’s Vasilisa
Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin (larger but darker here) One of Bilibin’s wonderful series of illustrations for the classic Russian folktale.
Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin (larger but darker here) One of Bilibin’s wonderful series of illustrations for the classic Russian folktale.
Maria Morevna (#4) by Ivan Bilibin On Wikimedia Commons. here’s the info page. For more, see my previous post on Ivan Bilibin [Update: my original links were to a page in which the URL is in Russian characters, and I apparently can’t copy and paste Read More …
From time to time, I like to check back on artists I’ve written about a few years ago and see what new resources for their work have appeared on the constantly expanding internet since I last wrote about them. I took a look this morning Read More …
Every once in a while I stumble across something by accident that turns out to be a great find. I was in the Met in New York last weekend and they have a wonderful practice (fortunately in common with many major museums lately) of rotating Read More …
Austrian-German painter and illustrator Maximilian Liebenwein, who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries, worked in an illustation style that feels in keeping with many of the other classic illustrators of that “Golden Age” of illustration. In particular, some of Liebenwein’s illustrations Read More …
A few winter images to mark the winter solstice today. If you want more, revisit Irene Gallo’s “Picturing Winter: A Solstice Celebration” from 2011. Images above: John Henry Twachtman, Gustave Courbet, Caspar David Friedrich, Antoine Blanchard, Albert Bierstadt, Ivan Bilibin, Neil Welliver, Alphonse Mucha, Ivan Read More …