The Wounded Angel

One of my favorite paintings is "The Wounded Angel" by Finnish Symbolist artist Hugo Simberg:

Doing a wee bit of internet sleuthing led me to this short film (after the jump), a re-imagining of the painting by Jennifer Bardsley:

At the Nickelodeon: Silly Symphonies - Flowers & Trees

If only animation remained as imaginative as it was back in 1932... The first animated short in full technicolor: "Flowers & Trees" courtesy of Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies series...

Flower Portraits

The majority of these gorgeous postcards are the art work of Thor E. Gyger. The postcards were printed in Switzerland during the 1940s and I am completely infatuated with them...
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Cornflower

Perennial Daisy

China Aster

Cornflower (part deux)

Alpine Soldanella

Strongly-veined Knap-weed

(the most unfortunate name for such a pretty flower)

Cactus Flower

Garden Anemones

Edelweiss

Columbine

and lastly... The Rose

At the Nickelodeon: Prohibition & Legos

I can't decide what the best aspect of this short B&W film is...the fact that a few guys took the time to tell a truncated story of Prohibition with stop action animation featuring Legos... or that two of the bootleggers are Spiderman & a Viking....

Odilon Redon

Ophelia Among the Flowers c. 1905

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Bouquet of Anemones c. 1910

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Flowers in a Vase 

 

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Vase of Flowers c. 1910

 

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Anemones and Lilac in a Blue Vase c. 1912