Masha And The Bear Were One Of The Blueprints For The Cottagecore Aesthetic

The East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), Danish illustrator.

This artist is known to have been hired in 1939 by Disney, in order to carry out studies as part of the future film projects of the firm, and will remain, in the end, a short time in this job, judging it in all the extent of his career.

The essence of his work consists in an important quantity of illustrations of tales or collections, in the first half of the twentieth century, in what will be called the Golden Age of illustration.

His style, characteristic of Art Nouveau, is recognizable among all, with its impacting strong black backgrounds and elegant and graceful characters.

(The pictures are illustrations from The East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 1914 ; and belong to public domain)

had to be said.......

Movies I think fit into the DA aesthetics II

CHAOTIC ACADEMIA

- Rushmore

- Igbo Goes Down

- What We Do in the Shadows

- The Double

- The Favourite

PUNK/GRUNGE ACADEMIA

- Blue Spring (2001)

- Brick

- Sound of Metal

- Nightcrawler

- Mystery Train

DARK ACADEMIA

- Hurrah, We Are Still Alive!

- Suspiria

- The Moth Diaries

- Phantom Thread

- Incense For the Damned

- The Red Violin

- Howl

- Eyes Without a Face

- Carnival of Souls

LIGHT ACADEMIA

- Picnic at Hanging Rock

- Daisies

- Cinema Paradiso

- The Crimson Permanent Assurance

- The Children’s Hour

ROMANTIC ACADEMIA

- Carol

- Portrait of Lady on Fire

- Vita and Virginia

- The Handmaiden

- Only Lovers Left Alive

- Orlando

czech glass fortune-telling dice .

You have been vetoed

*pushes you off a ravine*

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Robert Bresson, 1971)

and will you never cut the cloth, or drink the light to be? and can you never swear a year, to any one of we?

"...in pronouncing the name, I had secured a sort of power over it, by the mere act of drawing it up out of my dreams and giving it an objective existence in the world of spoken things."

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time vol 1: Swann's Way, "Combray"

Omar Rodriguez-Graham, Even Butterflies Hold Beauty in Death, 2008

Tahini Al-Jamil saying ‘I had never felt quite so seen as when she saw me’ sounds like something straight out of a dark academia novel, where the protagonist is describing their ‘friend’ who they’re definitely NOT in love with