Art Passions
September 22, 2010
Enigma, Gustav Dore
THE WEBSITE Art Passions is a trove of works by some of the best 19th and 20th century illustrators of fairy tales and myths. You may have noticed the images I occasionally post from there. The site is the work of an anonymous woman artist devoted to these old story books. The artists featured include N.C. Wyeth, Gustav Doré, Adrienne Segur, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen and others. If you read fairy tales and myths to your children, I highly recommend this site, which is a labor of love. It is strange and wonderful that this form of technology can convey the pleasures of these antique illustrations. See Doré’s dark and foreboding illustrations of Paradise Lost and The Divine Comedy and Wyeth’s images of the immortal Crusoe. Thank you, Art Passions!
The Princess and the Pea, Edmund Dulac
