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Trevor 486

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Apr 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/27/97

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This question is to Anne and everyone:

Have you seen any photos (magazine/bk) picturing this style?
Any web sites?
How about clip art, or any other source material?

Thanks!
-Erika

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Varndell

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Apr 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/29/97

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Victorian tribal??????????????????????????????
British colonial??????????????????????????????

Do you mean the work of tattooists during the reign of Englands Queen
Victoria
depicting non-Western imagery? Or is this something new (you kids come up
with darndest stuff.) For some leads to the former check out Ed's catalog
"Pierced Hearts and True Love" (Hardy Marks/ Honolulu)

Peace-

Teddy

Trevor 486

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May 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/4/97

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varn...@aol.com wrote:
<Do you mean the work of tattooists during the reign of England's Queen
Victoria depicting non-Western imagery?

nooo....
This style is reminiscent of the curls of ironwork...
bold floral, organic- frankly reminds me of William Morris' work.

Although you have piqued my interest...

-Oviri

Eighteggs

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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<This style is reminiscent of the curls of ironwork...
<bold floral, organic- frankly reminds me of William Morris' work.

try looking through some clip art and graphic designs books. They are a
wonderful source of this type of design work!

Katie
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Will Stevenson

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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Trevor 486 (trev...@aol.com) wrote:

: varn...@aol.com wrote:
: <Do you mean the work of tattooists during the reign of England's Queen
: Victoria depicting non-Western imagery?

: nooo....
: This style is reminiscent of the curls of ironwork...

: bold floral, organic- frankly reminds me of William Morris' work.

although just after victoria, the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh
i think is what you are after

like Morris, he was a designer - in ironwork, furniture, watercolours,
calligraphy and architecture - and i think that his style could
translate well as tattoo

he is famous for his 'rose' ironwork designs, which i think could turn
out well as blackwork - and also for his paintings of flowers, which
although botanically accurate, are immediately obvious as his work

i remember a post to RAB a few months ago about Macintosh's work and
tattoos - perhapse that poster is still out there...?

he is possibly best known for the Glasgow School of Art which he
designed - i know they are on the web, but i cant mind the url, so
you'd have to search for it

generally i dislike 19thC visual arts for being sentimental, having
false emotion, for portraying women as either weak, beautiful and
not in control (rosetti) or as seductor/destroyer

however, most people seem to disagree with me (esp women)..

cheers

will

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Will and Julia Newton

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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In article <19970504030...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
trev...@aol.com (Trevor 486) wrote:

> varn...@aol.com wrote:
> <Do you mean the work of tattooists during the reign of England's Queen
> Victoria depicting non-Western imagery?
>
> nooo....
> This style is reminiscent of the curls of ironwork...
> bold floral, organic- frankly reminds me of William Morris' work.

TREVORŠ
Checkout Aubrey Beardsley's B&W illustrations,especially the ones for Bon
Mots and Salome. Also, Dover Publications puts out a number of low-cost
copyright-free sourcebooks of all different kinds of motifs-- they have a
Art Nouveau one, a Victoian one, an Art Deco one... I missed the first
part of this post so I hope that this is what you were asking for :>)
Yours, Julia Newton

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Trevor 486

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May 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/6/97

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steve...@cf.ac.uk (w stevenson) wrote:
<although just after Victoria, the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh

<i think is what you are after

Thanks Will! This is a great suggestion to pursue (Victorian tribal
designs). Judith also suggested Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations-
a great idea.
I've been looking at Mucha's "frames"- I can't tell how they'd reproduce
in solid black.
I have the pleasure of working in a bkstore, so I've already checked
out all the clip art- and now I have more things to look at!

Thanks,

Varndell

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May 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/6/97

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There is a show of Macintosh's work at the Art Institute
of Chicago this summer- their bookstore will probably
have a few titles containing examples of his graphic
designs.
Peace-
Teddy