"Dragons are legendary creatures, typically with serpentine or otherwise reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and able to emit fire from their mouths. The European dragon has bat-type wings growing from its back. A dragon-like creature with no front legs is known as a wyvern. Following discovery of how pterosaurs walked on the ground, some dragons have been portrayed without front legs and using the wings as front legs pterosaur-fashion when on the ground." Wikipedia
Dragons
John Tenniel, 1872
I believe, however, that this monster is much stranger than it seems. If we think about the poem Jabberwocky and their portmanteaus that mix up words from other words, suggesting hybridisms and transformations, we we can expect, perhaps, a monster closest to the ancient and fantastic bestiaries and their enigmatic creatures.Jan Švankmajer is a Czech artist who illustrated both Lewis Carroll Alices and also produced a brilliant movie about the unconscious of our heroine and her travels through the underworld. Švankmajer sewed characters like Frankensteins, through collages, where fragments of bodies of different species create beings that emerge from the depths of dreams, defying rationality and common sense.
Jan Švankmajer : Jabberwock
Jan Švankmajer
Dragons
John Coulthart
Alice illustrations of John Coulthart HERE
A tradição de ilustradores de Alice que seguiram as pistas de seu ilustrador original, John Tenniel, representam o monstro Jabberwock como um dragão diabólico, meio contorcido e desengonçado. Talvez essa imagem se encaixe na aventura narrada pelo poema aonde o monstro aparece, em que um jovem enfrenta e vence o monstro numa batalha sangrenta.
Acredito entretanto que esse mostro é muito mais estranho do que parece. Se pensarmos no poema Jabberwocky aonde o monstro aparece e suas palavras inventadas, palavras valise que misturam fragmentos de outras palavras, sugerindo hibridismos e metamorfoses, podemos desejar um monstro mais próximo dos antigos bestiários fantásticos e suas criaturas fantásticas e enigmáticas.
Jan Svankmajer é um artista tcheco que ilustrou as duas Alices de Lewis Carroll além de ter produzido um filme brilhante sobre o incosciente de nossa heroína e suas viagens por mundos subterrâneos. Svankmajer costurou personagens como Frankensteins, através de colagens, onde fragmentos de corpos de diferentes espécies criam seres que emergem das profundezas oníricas, desafiando a racionalidade e o bom senso.
John Coulthart também cria um monstro híbrido nessa ilustração que apresentamos aqui. morcego? dragão? serpente? galinha? polvo? Não seria o monstro justamente aquele que desafia a nossa compreensão? Como o poema de Lewis Carroll, como o mundo dos sonhos, como os delírios surrealistas, como as aventuras em reinos maravilhosos onde nada é o que parece ser.
John Tenniel, 1872
The tradition of illustrators of Alice who followed the tracks of his original illustrator, John Tenniel, represent the monster Jabberwock as an evil and gangling dragon. Perhaps this image fits the adventure narrated by the poem where the monster appears, and a young boy kills it in a bloody battle.
I believe, however, that this monster is much stranger than it seems. If we think about the poem Jabberwocky and their portmanteaus that mix up words from other words, suggesting hybridisms and transformations, we we can expect, perhaps, a monster closest to the ancient and fantastic bestiaries and their enigmatic creatures.Jan Švankmajer is a Czech artist who illustrated both Lewis Carroll Alices and also produced a brilliant movie about the unconscious of our heroine and her travels through the underworld. Švankmajer sewed characters like Frankensteins, through collages, where fragments of bodies of different species create beings that emerge from the depths of dreams, defying rationality and common sense.
Ancient bestiary
Imperium sine fine dedi. Book: Claude Paradin Chanoine de Beaujeu, 1557.
Quò tendis? Book Claude Paradin Chanoine de Beaujeu, 1557.
[Dragons] Book: Johannes Ionstonus. Historiæ Natura, 1755.
[merman] Book: Gesner. Icones Animalium, 1560.
Bestiary found at "The fantastic in Art and Fiction" HERE
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