Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains, Picador/Pan, 1972. Cover: The Temptation of St. Anthony by Matthias Grünewald. #AngelaCarter #heroes #villains #Picador #Pan #MatthiasGrünewald

@picadorbooks.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_... #AngelaCarter #Picador #PicadorBooks #HeroesAndVillains #MatthiasGrünewald #MuseéUnterlinden #IsenheimAltarpiece The #devil is in the details. See also: snrk.de/page_face-it/ In this post I modified the original cover illustration.

Trubu Roy (with apologies to Max Ernst) #NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOctober18th

Should I better call it “Trooboo Roy”? (He’s not the friendly ghost True Boo.) How about “Trübü Rwa”?

Le retable : mode d'emploi - Das Retabel : Bedienungsanleitung Musée Unterlinden (User manual for an altar piece) youtu.be/Ff4Po1QPBoc

Henry Holiday saw a #kitten in the painting when illustrating Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”. #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #MUnterlinden Regrettably, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar has no BlueSky account yet. On another account they reposted my comparison. (Links in ALT text)

#WorldCatDay #InternationalCatDay #CatDay #Kittens Details from a painting by Matthias Grünewald and from an illustration by Henry Holiday to "The Hunting of the Snark", who saw a Kitten in Grünewalds painting. To artists paredolia is a tool.

Those two images make a good couple.

How about seeing skulls?

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🩶 This Pebble could represent one of the oldest known abstractions of a human face in the prehistoric record. #RockinTuesday #pareidolia #archaeology

‘Pareidolia may have been the mechanism through which figurative representation emerged’

"The art of deniability" (@mahendra.bsky.social) When Henry Holiday illustrated Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), his playing with the pareidolia of the beholders of his illustrations allows him to hold them responsible for the things (especially the long ones) which they "see".

As a painter, it’s been said, once Pareidolia detects an unintended face in the painting you’re doomed LOL.

2025-05-31, 11:00, Visite du Retable d'Issenheim Place Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar, France www.facebook.com/events/94888...

How about adding "The Hunting of the Snark" to the reading&viewing list? I think that Henry Holiday's illustrations (snrk.de) are as important as Lewis Carroll's text (snrk.de/snarkhunt).

From Jay Clouse, @jay.blog, "What Salvador Dali taught me about creative work", 2017 web.archive.org/web/20200918...

Sometimes you need to see less to see more.

Isenheim Altarpiece, Inner wings opened, c. 1512-1516, by Matthias Grünewald (Mathis Gothardt Neithardt) Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France Source: webmuseo.com/ws/musee-unt...