I really like the look of it. The piece has a sort of fin-de-siecle feel like you find in the later Pre-Raphaelites or Arthur Rackham (note that John Waterhouse often left the edges of his compositions "unfinished" as a nod impressionist/post-impressionist idea that art should draw attention to itself as art). The conception's actually quite arresting and the actual character seems to be a sort of Gandalf-meets-Brian-Froud's-mystics; a combination that's always welcome in my imagination. It makes me want to know more about this version of Saint Nicholas and the world that he inhabits.
I really like the look of it. The piece has a sort of fin-de-siecle feel like you find in the later Pre-Raphaelites or Arthur Rackham (note that John Waterhouse often left the edges of his compositions "unfinished" as a nod impressionist/post-impressionist idea that art should draw attention to itself as art). The conception's actually quite arresting and the actual character seems to be a sort of Gandalf-meets-Brian-Froud's-mystics; a combination that's always welcome in my imagination. It makes me want to know more about this version of Saint Nicholas and the world that he inhabits.
ReplyDeleteI love you James. Merry Christmas!
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