Scientific Journal of Pazhuhesh-e Honar

With the social and economic developments arising from the industrial revolution in England, children's book illustrations were welcomed. Arthur Rackham, an English illustrator, peaked the Golden Age illustration in England with his imaginative and original paintings and legendary themes. In Rackham's works, trees have a unique personality to the extent that they seem to be derived from the unconscious part of Rackham's mind and archetypal faces. In this research, the archetypes proposed by Jung in the representations of the tree in Rackham's depiction are examined. In this context, the archetypal role of the tree as the most significant element in creating visual space is the subject of research. In fact, the general purpose of the research is to investigate the manifestation of the archetype based on Jung's theory in the design of trees in relation to the imaginary fields of Rackham's illustrations. In this research, the archetypes proposed by Jung in the representations of the tree in Rackham's depiction are examined. The research seeks to answer these questions; In Rackham's painting, the tree is manifested in the form of what archetypes and what role do these images play in his illustrations? The results of the research indicate that in some of Rackham's depictions, the archetypal concepts of the tree have overcome the human characters and have a more prominent role in the image space, and Rackham has unconsciously covered his mental archetypes with an image. To reflect the narrative themes of the stories, Rackham has represented the archetype of the tree in various formats. This research is of qualitative type and descriptive-analytical method, in which information was collected by library and document method and Jung's theories were used in the theoretical framework.