Madame Blavatsky and The Mother
Here are a couple of illustrations from a magazine that wanted me to illustrate two articles in my woodcut and my painted style. The women featured in the articles are Madame Blavatsky (who was pretty much a charlatan, as far as I can see -- read up on her on Wikipedia if you're interested) and The Mother, who was a disciple of and sort of partner to Sri Aurobindo. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool non-believer, but it was nonetheless fun to do their portraits.
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| Madame Blavatsky |
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| The Mother |
In the time of the Madame, they believed in a lot of hocus pocus. Thanks for reminding me of her and sending me to the Wiki.
ReplyDeleteIt led to me wondering if they even had zippers back then and how it might be thought something like a zipper was given to us by space men. LOL
The zipper was invented in 1913. Then I had to know more and found a 19th century timeline of inventions on about dot com.
Ha! Now I'm going to go look up the 19th century timeline of inventions!
ReplyDeleteYah, Blavatsky was a fraud. Doesn't mean you can't mine her personal mythology for fun material. She did give us the lost continent of Lemuria, after all, which was used in at least one train wreck of a Japanese monster movie.
ReplyDeleteNow you've got me looking up "Lemuria" and "Monster Movie"!
ReplyDelete"...She did give us the lost continent of Lemuria, after all, which was used in at least one train wreck of a Japanese monster movie."
ReplyDeleteLOL!
Nice work, Zina.