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#BooksAboutNature This is Mark Ryden's Tree Show (I love these oddly seductive and mysterious paintings)! Clockwise from top left: book cover; endpapers; centerfold painting with nymphets at a strangely symbolic tea party with totem animals as hats(!); complete painting of cover detail (over 5' tall).#MarkRyden. note: I don't think I attached this post to my edition of the book-- which is totally awesome! #readjanuary

#DreamingOfAColderClimate #readjanuary This is by the same artist I posted yesterday for the 👗 covers, but it seemed so perfect for today's prompt that I couldn't resist to reveal another example of this pop surrealist's strange, mythical worlds. Due to the lack of his typical wealth of details, Mark Ryden's Snow Yak Show isn't among my favorites, but one of the nymphets in this book is his most provocative in quite an imaginative way. #markryden

Before Lady Gaga's infamous meat-dress, the artist, Mark Ryden, created this nearly life size painting, Incarnation, which appears on the cover of his book, Gay 90s. His pop surrealist paintings are almost always as disturbing as they are amusing, full of big-eyed nymphets lost in arcane worlds of magic, toys, historic icons and deli meat. #readjanuary #DressesOnCovers #markryden