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zegalba · 24 days

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Yoshitaka Amano: 1001 Nights (1998)

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femalegifsource · 8 months

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CATHERINE ZETA-JONES in Les 1001 Nuits (1990)

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53v3nfrn5 · 1 month

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1001 Nights (1998) dir. Mike Smith art: Yoshitaka Amano

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illustratus · 28 days

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Scheherazade and the Sultan by Alfred Choubrac

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cat-eye-nebula · 3 months

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ℌ𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔓𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔭𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔢

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mote-historie · 10 months

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Kay Nielsen, Scheherazade kneeling before the king, from Nielsen’s illustrations for A Thousand and One Nights, circa 1917 to 1919, published posthumously.

#1917 #illustration #painting #kay nielsen #danish illustrator #art nouveau #fairy tale #a thousand and one nights #published posthumously #posthumously #1001 nights #sultan #the king #arabian nights #thousand and one night #fairy tale illustrations #fairy tales #scheherazade #Scheherazade

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stone-cold-groove · 2 months

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Magic carpet ride. One Thousand and One Nights - 1906.

#vintage illustration #vintage art #vintage books #arabian nights #1001 nights #one thousand and one nights #maxfield parrish #book illustration #children’s book illustrations #magic carpet ride

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jadeseadragon · 5 months

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Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (French, 1878 - 1942), illustrations from Le Livre des Mille et une Nuits; Art H. Piazza, ed. Paris, 1932.

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waterlubes · 2 years

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The 1001 Nights - Kay Nielsen

#kay nielsen #arabic art #20th century art #art #illustration #fairy tale art #fairy tale #ethereal #art nouveau #1001 nights

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i12bent · 7 months

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Bjørn Wiinblad (Sept. 20, 1918 - 2006) was a famous Danish artist and designer. He loved working in ceramics, but also as a set designer for theater or within hotel and restaurant decor. His many, many everyday products are still found in millions of homes world wide, and he has works in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as at MoMA in New York.

His style was very up-beat, almost anti-Scandinavian in its love of squiggles, happy faces and orientalist settings. Here is a design for a Scheherezade-themed quilt:

Femte tema: Forlæg til detalje i Scheherezade-billedtæppe, The Dallas Apparel Mart, 1971 - gouache on paper

#art #danish artist #danish designer #bjørn wiinblad #1970s #quilt #gouache on paper #arabian nights #1001 nights #victoria and albert museum #moma #danish royal academy of fine arts

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praise4slaanesh · 4 months

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One of the most underrated Danish artist I have come across, is Kay Nielsen, 1886-1957. Kay was the child of 2 Danish actors, and became an illustrator himself. Visiting Paris, London, New York and settling in Los Angeles, he tried to write about fairytales, mythology and anything in-between. His style is reminisced of the jugendstilen, from which his works get a very unique and special touch. Personally, I relate him a lot to the Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano, 1951-, whose style gives the same dreamy feeling. Nielsens works are mostly seen in books like East of The Sun - West of The Moon, however he also worked on the section in the Disney film Fantasia, involving Night on Bald Mountain. Properly most obscure, he also had some illustrations in erotic novels, that´s increasingly hard to find today. Here´s a small pick for some of my favorite illustrations form this amazing, underrepresented artist. Read more about Kay Nielsen here:

https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Kay_Nielsen

Or in the book: Kay Nielsen: An Enchanted Vision

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zegalba · 10 months

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Yoshitaka Amano: 1001 Nights (1998)

#yoshitaka amano #1001 nights #film #illustrations #sparkle #gothic #1998

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53v3nfrn5 · 9 months

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1001 Nights (1998) Yoshitaka Amano

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illustratus · 26 days

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The Sultan orders to cut off Aladdin's head by Albert Robida

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softlytowardthesun · 2 years

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Wich are your favorite fairy tale couples/romances and why?

*cracks knuckles* I'm excited for this one!

It's important to note that not all of these are necessarily "canon" to the story, whatever that nebulous word means in the context of oral traditions. Still, the fun of fairy tales as a genre is the audience participation aspect, allowing you to fill in our own imaginative gaps.

Gold-Tree, her husband, and her wife from "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree": in this Celtic variant of "Snow White", the handsome prince fills the role that the dwarfs occupy in Grimm. She marries him and temporarily escapes her mother, but the wicked Silver-Tree finds Gold-Tree and poisons her. Thinking her dead, the prince takes another wife, and in a total reversal of "Bluebeard", the second princess walks into the forbidden room where Gold-tree slumbers, finds the thorn, and breaks the spell. The second princess then kills Silver-Tree when she makes her third attempt on Gold-Tree's life, and " prince and his two wives were long alive after this, pleased and peaceful."

The Peasant and the Soldier from "The Grave Mound": A comical story about two poor men who win their fortune through conning the Devil, which ends with them co-habitating and "living in rest and peace...as long as God is pleased to permit". I fell in love with this story after reading the dedicated chapter for it in the terrific academic anthology "Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms".

Betushka and the Wood Maiden: Every day at noon, a mysterious and beautiful maiden appears to the farm girl Betushka. They dance together until the sun goes down, and I'm just so moved by how it's described: "Betushka's cheeks burned, her eyes shone. She forgot her spinning, she forgot her goats. All she could do was gaze at her partner who was moving with such grace and lightness that the grass didn't seem to bend under her slender feet." Ultimately, Betushka succumbs to an Orpheus-style moment of weakness that separates them forever. Tragic, but undeniably beautiful.

The Clever Farmgirl and the King: I love a battle of wits where the two parties challenge each other but clearly respect and love one another. You listed this as one of your favorite tale types, and in hindsight, I'm inclined to agree.

Tam Lin and Janet: these two need no introduction. A haunting ballad of love and the transformations that it always entails. (Just please, never the non-consensual variants.) I have to shout out Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube for introducing me to this story, and the "Which Fairytale Lady Are You?" quiz, which assigned me Janet. I hope to be as bold and confident as this heroine, in love and in life.

Prince Yousif and Louliyya, Daughter of Morgan: An Egyptian relative of Rapunzel, I love their fierce and undying commitment to each other, and their resilience in the face of the many challenges between them and their happy ending.

The Lady and the Lion from "The Singing, Springing Lark": A "Beauty and the Beast" variant where the heroine knows about the curse from the word go, and they actually live happily in spite of his back-and-forth between his human and lion forms for a while, even having a child together. Of course, circumstances force them apart, and she travels to the Sun, the Moon, the Four Winds, and the Red Sea to get him back. It's a relationship built on honesty, communication, and willingness to sacrifice for one another. When people talk about wanting a fairy tale Prince Charming, this is the guy I picture.

The One-Handed Girl and her Prince: A lovely (if at times gruesome) Swahili story of a woman deprived of everything by her wicked brother, she finds love in a charming prince and they start a family together. When her love is out warring, her wicked brother rears his head and persuades her in-laws to banish her to the wilderness, and tell the prince that she and her baby died. I'm always moved by the makeshift funeral her husband arranges when he hears the wicked brother-turned-royal-advisor's lie, and their reunion at the end.

The couple from "The Nixie of the Pond": When her husband succumbs to a mysterious nixie, the heroine conducts a series of moonlight rituals, offering a comb, a flute, and a spinning wheel to the water spirit in exchange for his safe return. Of course, the nixie doesn't play fair, but they eventually get their hard-earned happy ending, finding each other under the moonlight listening to the same song she used to bargain for his rescue.

Broadening the definition of "fairy tales", I have to include Dorothy and Ozma, Clara / Marie and her Nutcracker, and Ahmed and Pari Banu. There are also stories with pairings that, while I can't honestly say I support, I still find compelling: Shahrazad leading Shahryar through the most intense talk therapy session in world literature, whatever the heck is going on with Velina and Tayzanne, the quasi-erotic dynamic of this proto-Little Red Riding Hood. Plus there's some terrific villain couples I love to hate, like the witch and her lover in "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince" (sorry, Burton's translation is all I could find online; if you have the chance, read Yasmine Seale's version of the text).

As you can tell, I've thought about this stuff a lot and I'm eager to talk about it. What are some of the romances and relationships you love / find compelling in fairy tales?

#ask response #ariel seagull wings #fairy tales #1001 nights #nixie of the pond #gold tree and silver tree #the grave mound #the wood maiden #the one handed girl #jack the master and jack the servant #the singing springing lark #tam lin #louliyya daughter of morgan #the farmer's clever daughter

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acquired-stardust · 1 day

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The Magic of Scheherazade Nintendo Entertainment System 1987

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