Gustave Van de Woestyne (Belgian, 1881-1947)
Farmer family, around 1912
Oil on canvas, 40 х 50 cm
The colors of Jim Henson’s FRAGGLE ROCK.
Vintage French flower people postcard for François Pinet ladies’ footwear. 1890s.
Justinus Kerner. Kleksographien. 1890.
Kerner intentionally produced random inkblots (Swabian Tintensäue) made by folding the sheet of paper into a symmetrical shape. They resemble the images the Rorschach also called the “inkblot test”. The “scope of imagination transmitting entities” are often ghost-like and grotesque, which excited Kerner to characters and short stories–which he then summed up in verse. Where the imagination was not enough, Kerner helped after “with a few strokes of the pen”. It differs Hades and hell pictures with goblins, the angel of death, witches, devils, etc. Other known Klecksographen are Victor Hugo and Christian Morgenstern.
Book or Shrine, Cumdach of the Stowe Missal, Medieval Art
Rogers Fund, 1911 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Wood, brass, silver gilt, glass cabochons
