Tag: mermaids

Rackham’s Mermaids

” The Rhine’s fair children, Bewailing their lost gold, weep “
From : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
The Rhine-Maidens teasing Alberich · From : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
” Mock away ! Mock ! The Niblung makes for your toy ! “
“Seize the despoiler ! Rescue the gold ! Help us ! Help us ! Woe! Woe!”
The frolic of the Rhine-Maidens · From : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

All illustrations are from : The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Published in 1910. New York Public Library at internet archive

Sirenas del Aire, ca. 1935–36

Lola Álvarez-Bravo :: Sirenas del Aire, ca. 1935–36, printed ca. 1958. Álvarez-Bravo offers a pairing of the modern and the classical world using the surrealist approach of juxtaposing improbable objects. Two mermaids, their backs to the viewer, float on an empty picture. These mermaids (or sirens) have chosen a more modern vehicle to send their messages, a typewriter. | src Surrealism and Women Artists