El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) Guillermo del Toro (Mex/Sp/USA) 2006 CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH Vivienne Clark

Juan Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Saturn Devouring his Children 1819

Spanish Civil War Franco with Hitler The Spanish Civil War (17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939) began after a coup d'état against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, led by president Manuel Azaña, by a group of Spanish Army generals. The war ended with the victory of the rebel forces, the overthrow of the Republican government, and the founding of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco which lasted until his death in 1975. Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death - by Robert Capa (1938)

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) 1936

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Guernica 1937

Paganism and Catholicism Blood Innocence Menstruation/ reproduction Birth Blood lines/ family Guilt/Shame Death Afterlife Rituals/ sacrifice Nature and animals – Mother Nature Magic/ Occult Sprites/ goblins/ fairies/ spirits Incantation/ spells Madonna and child Mother and child Prayer Sacrifice/ Redemption Sin/ Forgiveness Death and resurrection Heaven, hell and purgatory God the father Law of the father Authority/government

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

Fauns and satyrs CS Lewis’s Narnia -Christian Allegory

Labyrinth – Theseus and the Minotaur

Fairies/faeries

Spirited Away Studio Ghibli – 2001 Jap Dir. Hiyao Miyazake

Mandrake The shape of the root suggested human form

Fairytales – Hansel & Gretel

The Green Man

Ancient Mexican sculpture

Arthur Rackham – fairies and goblins

Persephone & the Underworld