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Joan Wyatt

Auteur de A Middle-Earth Album

4 oeuvres 107 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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(eng) Joan Wyatt trained at Hastings Art School and the Slade, and thereafter had a career as a display artist. She lived abroad as a Foreign Office wife, thereafter returning to spend more time on painting.

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Nom canonique
Wyatt, Joan
Date de naissance
20th Century
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Notice de désambigüisation
Joan Wyatt trained at Hastings Art School and the Slade, and thereafter had a career as a display artist. She lived abroad as a Foreign Office wife, thereafter returning to spend more time on painting.

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Wyatt's depictions of the landscape and architecture of Tolkien's Middle-earth are really very good: by turns ethereal and otherworldly, then dark, brooding and menacing. Her figures, on the other hand, are either charmingly naïve or clunky and amateurish, depending on your point of view. I incline towards the former, remembering Tolkien's own limitations as an artist of the human (and non-human) form.

Whenever I re-read The Lord of the Rings, I keep this album nearby and refer to the illustrations at the appropriate point in the text to lend a bit of atmosphere and to compare the image in my mind's eye with that of Ms Wyatt's paintings. Given that she has paid close attention to Tolkien's descriptions, it is always interesting to note the differences from my visualisations that the same words can weave in another person's imagination.… (plus d'informations)
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Michael.Rimmer | Mar 30, 2013 |

Statistiques

Œuvres
4
Membres
107
Popularité
#180,615
Évaluation
½ 3.3
Critiques
1
ISBN
9
Langues
1

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