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the-cricket-chirps · 2 months
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Ithell Colquhoun
Ages of Man
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thunderstruck9 · 1 year
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Ithell Colquhoun (British, 1906-1988), Anthurium, 1936. Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 51.5 cm.
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las-microfisuras · 3 months
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Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) 
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waitinqroom · 2 years
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we return to, and redefine the same, tragic stories. ocean vuong / ithell colquhoun / mary oliver
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jareckiworld · 8 months
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Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) — Scylla [oil on board, 1938]
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banji-effect · 2 months
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I went to the Judy Chicago retrospective at the New Museum today and really loved the way she/the curators included a kind of mini overview of works by female geniuses throughout history as part of it. These are just a few--I was so excited to see a piece by Unica Zürn in person!
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Emma Kunz, Work No. 003, no date (circa 1940) Ithell Colquhoun, Alcove, 1946 Unica Zürn, La Serpenta, 1957 Georgiana Houghton, The Spiritual Crown of Annie Mary Howitt Watts, 1867 Hilma af Klint, Group IX/UW, The Dove, no. 2, 1915
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anotherdayinbliss · 9 months
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Four cards from Ithell Colquhoun's Tarot as Colour deck, 1977
Drawing on the colour symbolism of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an occult secret society, the Tarot as Colour deck was created using automatist techniques. It features luminous enamel paint poured onto paper and then swirled into spiralling liquid patterns: part marbled oil spill, part whirlpool. Colquhoun veers away from traditional symbolism to dwell in the marvellous and murky realms of spiritual abstraction. source
Colquhoun was perhaps the most committed and engaged female occultist of the twentieth century. […] She pursued the mysteries with every breath and used that passion to fuel an incredible output of art and writing. Throughout her life, she created thousands of pieces of visual art, wrote, published and performed hundreds of poems, wrote several novels and three travel guides, wrote a history of the Golden Dawn magical order, drafted radio dramas, produced philosophical commentaries and quite a large number of articles on thick occult theory. But her art was always in service to her magic. […] Like other Surrealists, Colquhoun used automatic techniques in her writing and painting, but she used automatism to go deeper, to make contact not only with her own subconscious, but also to open herself as a channel to other planes and entities who would reveal themselves through her art. source
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roaenexists · 2 months
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Taro As Colour by Ithell Colquhoun, published by Fulgur Press
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rheo-tu · 1 year
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Ithell Colquhoun - The pine family (1940)
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maeviuslynn · 6 months
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In this video I discuss the life and work of surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun with the incredibly brilliant academic and practitioner Amy Hale PhD. Amy is an Atlanta based writer, curator, and critic, ethnographer and folklorist, speaking and writing about esoteric history, magic, art, culture, women and Cornwall.
Women have always been a part of the history of the occult, but their work has failed to be explored and highlighted the way it should have been for reasons we discuss in the video.
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Alchemical Figure:: 1940 Ithell Colquhoun:: Cartes de tarot travail a le peinture e-mail 1978
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“The Tarot constitutes first and foremost an apprenticeship in seeing”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa, The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards
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the-cricket-chirps · 1 month
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Ithell Colquhoun
Highland Landscape
1965
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thunderstruck9 · 3 months
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Ithell Colquhoun (British, 1906-1988), Kelp Gathering, 1949. Oil and wax medium on canvas, 18 x 36 in.
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las-microfisuras · 4 months
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Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)
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aiastelamonian · 2 years
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Landscape with Antiquities by Ithell Colquhoun, 1955 (Tate)
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nununiverse · 10 months
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Ithell Colquhoun. Tarot
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