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  • Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott

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    The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse Original is in the Tate, Britain. There is a high-resolution zoomable image on the Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. I almost hesitated to feature this image; Waterhouse’s interpretation of the scene from Tennyson’s poem is so commonly reproduced, it’s almost…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Gather Rosebuds

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    Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, John William Waterhouse The title is from the famous first verse of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time“: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. On Wikipaintings. Original is…

  • Waterhouse’s Miranda

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    Whatever the actual reception of the movie itself, I think it’s always good when a new popularly released move brings renewed attention to the works of Shakespeare, which had much more in common with the characteristics of contemporary popular entertainment than your high school English class might have led you to believe. The latest adaptation…

  • J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite

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    For those familiar with the English Pre-Raphaelite painters, the phrase “modern Pre-Raphaelite” may sound as much an oxymoron as the Surrealist phrase “Soluble Fish”, in that the Pre-Raphaelites named their group after their desire to return to the “pre-Raphael” purity of the early Renaissance. John William Waterhouse was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,…

  • Sir John Everett Millais

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    There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples (…) When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;…

  • Picturing Spring: An Equinox Celebration on Tor.com

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    In what I hope will become a regular feature, Irene Gallo, art director of Tor, Forge, Starscape and Tor.com, has reprised the idea behind her post from last December, Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration, as Picturing Spring: An Equinox Celebration. The basis of the original post was to ask several illustrators and art directors to…