Darkdeck

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 09 Dec 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Baron_Brooks	09 Dec 2002
does anybody know of a deck thats very dark, and drawn in a scratchy style, if anybodies seen artwork done by dore then they'll know what i mean. i require a dark deck so any suggestions would be welcome. thanks you

rostie	10 Dec 2002
do you mean doré who has illustrated divina commedia from dante? like this: http://dore.artpassions.net/ maybe look at tarotgarden, there you can search by theme: http://www.tarotgarden.com/database/dbsearchadv.html looking for dark decks is: halloween/horror/dark - black&white/monochromatic/2-color - satanic - voodoo perhaps you like this: eternal dream tarot: dark and scratchy http://www.tarotpassages.com/eternal-aa.htm http://codefreespirit.tripod.com/id112.htm (artists site) and the victoria regina tarot is in a scratchy style but not really dark...very nice done though... http://www.thefool.com/vr/index.asp?viewcard=0t

Laurel	10 Dec 2002
I have seriously thought about creating a Gustav Dore oracle deck for personal use. I think his work is some of the most somber and evocative art I have ever encountered and best of all, own copies of both his "Paradise Lost" and "Bible Illustrations" printed back in the 1850s and will be aquiring two more Dore 19th century art books in February so making such a deck would be well within my power next year. Laurel

rota	10 Dec 2002
You might also search up the Lovecraft deck. ( shudder... )

rostie	10 Dec 2002
yes the lovecraft is also very dark...and really nice done! http://www.delta.edu/dlhutchi/ http://www.wicce.com/lovecraftpix.html also dark is the giger tarot or baphomet: tarot of the underworld, but i don't think this is scratchy;) http://www.wicce.com/hrgigerpix.html

Maan	10 Dec 2002
http://www.tarotpassages.com/bursten46.htm what about this beauty? I think ist kindda dark without being horror Its a great deck to read with and easy cause its RWS based love and light Maan

Baron_Brooks	11 Dec 2002
thanks people for the advice ive decided to go for the giger tarot or baphomet deck as it really appealed to me... dark i know lol

Cerulean	11 Dec 2002
Laurel, if you do get to a Dore deck, maybe you could do the Dante deck that I have yearned for the longest time... I'm taking the specialized focus for Inferno and Purgatory this winter after taking my review of Paradiso...and I think Dore was my first picture collection...it's available also through Dover books. I'm still working through concepts introduced by the Lo Scarabeo Dante deck and my Paradiso class and have run back to my New Life pre-Divine Comedy translations...and still sigh over Dore. He's much more detailed than Botticelli's etheral drawings, Dore has something vividly strong... So come to think of it, Dante in Black and White would be very cool...maybe in a collab... Mari H.

allibee	11 Dec 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Baron_Brooks thanks people for the advice ive decided to go for the giger tarot or baphomet deck as it really appealed to me... dark i know lol That's not dark *LOL*... if you want DARK, check out Dave McKean's Vertigo Tarot Deck allibee

rostie	12 Dec 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Mari_Hoshizaki Laurel, if you do get to a Dore deck, maybe you could do the Dante deck that I have yearned for the longest time... I'm taking the specialized focus for Inferno and Purgatory this winter after taking my review of Paradiso...and I think Dore was my first picture collection...it's available also through Dover books. I'm still working through concepts introduced by the Lo Scarabeo Dante deck and my Paradiso class and have run back to my New Life pre-Divine Comedy translations...and still sigh over Dore. He's much more detailed than Botticelli's etheral drawings, Dore has something vividly strong... So come to think of it, Dante in Black and White would be very cool...maybe in a collab... Mari H. have you ever seen the art from rauschenberg about the divina commedia from dante?! very good...i follow art lessons on the university here and we have seen this...it's modern but very intense, a nice different look at the divina commedia from the perspective of dante mixed with ours, you really have to search this up if you are so interested in it!!! btw rauschenberg is very important artist from the fifties/sixties...

allibee	12 Dec 2002
Rauschenburg was indeed a masterful artist and his style is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago. In fact, he was the reason for how my style eventually evolved at college. Find a piece called 'the bicycle' (I think). A tutor of mine saw which way my work was going, and recommended I check him out. So I pass that on to you all, check him out!

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