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

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

3. 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)

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

5. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Guernica 1937

6. 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

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

8. Fauns and satyrs
CS Lewis’s Narnia -Christian Allegory

9. Labyrinth – Theseus and the Minotaur

10. Fairies/faeries

11. Spirited Away Studio Ghibli – 2001 Jap Dir. Hiyao Miyazake

12. Mandrake
The shape of the root suggested human form

13. Fairytales – Hansel & Gretel

14. The Green Man

15. Ancient Mexican sculpture

16. Arthur Rackham – fairies and goblins

17. Persephone & the Underworld