Pamela Colman Smith illustrated the most famous tarot deck, but her contributions were eclipsed by A.E. Waite, who commissioned her.
Hold a question in your mind, shuffle, select your cards and see into your future. For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.
Smith, like many other women artists of the era, was the victim of"the marginalization of female accomplishments," according to Barbara Haskell, the show's curator. In Smith's work,"she was drawn toward a kind of mystical vision of the world," Haskell said in a phone interview. She listened to music to unlock her subconscious mind, and reportedly had synesthesia — a neurological condition that causes the person to see shapes or colors when they hear sounds.
Tarot has been around since early 15th-century Italy, spun off from traditional playing cards. The 78 cards are split into two groups called the Major and Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana features allegorical characters like the moon, sun, the fool and the lovers, while the Minor Arcana is divided into numbered and face cards in four suits: wands, swords, cups and pentacles.
Smith's influences for the imagery included the indulgent ink illustrations by English artist Aubrey Beardsley, the luminous paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, the saturated color blocking of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, and the ornamental details of Art Nouveau, according to Haskell. "The artists that were working, for the most part, either turned to more realistic styles or fell into obscurity," she explained. Many of them"had no sustained gallery representation."
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