The paintings were of a similar vein to his previous work, but many were nearly devoid of color and were a stark contrast to the effulgence of the originals. In 1996, Ul de Rico painted a sequel to his original Goblins story entitled The White Goblin. There were additional characters he created that were not produced. His work on the NeverEnding Story (1984) was similarly vivid and fantastic the production team based many of their storyboards and animations on his creations from the novel. His paintings complemented Adams' poetic verse quite effectively. In 1982, Ul de Rico illustrated Richard Adams' short novel The Legend of Te Tuna, a story based on characters from Polynesian mythology. The top image and bottom image were connected thematically, but not sequentially within the story.
The oil-on-oak color paintings were all designed similarly: the painting was ringed by the three Norns and their golden rope, and the top half of the painting showed a different scene from the bottom.
de Rico's story was a simplified, truncated version of the full play cycle, which took several creative liberties, the most noticeable of which was the use of the three Norns as narrators throughout the story, rather than merely for Götterdämmerung, as in the original. In 1980, Ul de Rico wrote and illustrated The Ring of the Nibelung: Wagner's epic drama, an interpretation of the extraordinary 15-hour epic Opera series composed by Richard Wagner over the course of 26 years. The work was praised for its enchanting oil-on-oak illustrations, which vividly draw the reader into the world of the goblins and its simple story, which teaches children about color as well as reverence for natural beauty. It is a story of 7 goblins, each a different color of the rainbow, who travel through the land catching rainbows and stealing their color. The Rainbow Goblins was published in 1978 in Germany, and was translated into English in the same year by Stanley Baron. He studied painting under Professor Franz Nagel and, under the tutelage of Professor Rudolf Heinrich, received his diploma in stage and costume design. He lived in Munich for many years, studying at the Munich Academy. Ul de Rico was born in 1944 in Udine, Italy. (1996) He was also a major artistic contributor to the children's fantasy film The NeverEnding Story (1984), based on the book of the same name by Michael Ende.
( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭount Ul de Rico, AKA Ulderico Conte Gropplero di Troppenburg (born 1944), is an Italian-born artist and author of illustrated children's books, most notably The Rainbow Goblins (1978) and its sequel The White Goblin. JSTOR ( September 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
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