 Many of Der Jen’s physical features and also her personal demure demeanor is reflected in her portraits of women.
For the China Tarot, the card back design doesn’t really do anything for me, though it is reversible and thus renders the deck easy to use for reversal readings. I don’t know whether the art here is Der Jen’s work, a derivative of art she’s done, or publisher-designed to go along with this art deck. I will say that it does seem to diverge from what I’d consider Der Jen’s typical artistic style and doesn’t have the technical mastery or balance you’d see in her other works.
With the genre or category of tarot art decks, you’re not going to get perfect cookie-cutter fits between traditional tarot symbolism and the art. Instead, the art in the deck is typically taken from the artist’s portfolio and assigned to a specific tarot card that just happens to match the expression of that work. Given that context, the matches were pretty good. |
