Tarot Cards:
The Key to the Kingdom - An Enchanted Deck - By Tony Meeuwissen
“The Playe of Cards is an invention of the Devill, which he found out, that he might the easiler bring in ydolatrie amongst men, wrote an early commentator. Whether hell hewn or not, the origins of playing cards are certainly mysterious.”
Analysis - An extract from a very old quote, giving card games a sort of lore. This is offering a story for cards, giving an 'answer' for their creation and origin.
Analysis - An extract from a very old quote, giving card games a sort of lore. This is offering a story for cards, giving an 'answer' for their creation and origin.
“The first picture decks appeared in Italy in the 13th Century. Like so many inventions of that time, they are said to have arrived from the East, and were a with magic and divination”.
Analysis - Like a lot of things it is unclear where they originate, although it is interesting how it was speculated to be connection to magic due to it's unknown nature, maybe this correlates to a lot of magic folklore.
“These were the first transformation cards, in which the symbols became the jumping-off point for artistic fantasy”
Analysis - This could be a strong influence for fantasy art and games such as world of warcraft today, and probably even influenced tales such as Tolkiens Middle-Earth.
Analysis - This could be a strong influence for fantasy art and games such as world of warcraft today, and probably even influenced tales such as Tolkiens Middle-Earth.
“Transformation cards were especially popular in England. Tenniel’s drawings from ALICE IN WONDERLAND show their influence (as does the story).”
“London’s victoria and albert museum , a collector and occasional commisioner of curious and historic card decks, gave Tony Tony Meeuwissen an intriguing assignment: to design a set of court cards for a new deck based on Nursery rhymes”
Analysis - The deck was inspired by fairytales and then a twist was added by the artist to twist the coherent design to apply a different affect to the viewers perspective of these seemingly harmless worlds, this is done a lot especially with fairytales as they seem to mostly originate from horrible tales in the first place.
“London’s victoria and albert museum , a collector and occasional commisioner of curious and historic card decks, gave Tony Tony Meeuwissen an intriguing assignment: to design a set of court cards for a new deck based on Nursery rhymes”
Analysis - The deck was inspired by fairytales and then a twist was added by the artist to twist the coherent design to apply a different affect to the viewers perspective of these seemingly harmless worlds, this is done a lot especially with fairytales as they seem to mostly originate from horrible tales in the first place.
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