James J. Conwayさんのイラストまとめ

Early 20th-century self-portraits by Marie Laurencin, who died #OTD in 1956. #AYearofStrangeFlowers

But Kaspar Hauser also produced his own works, and he has an odd role in the development of art therapy as a means of overcoming trauma, with some of his images produced in a trance state. https://t.co/XFX5idAwgF

A constant throughout Cameron's career was her art, which she continued to produce until her death in 1995.

Artist Jeanne Mammen died in Berlin #OTD in 1976; here two portraits of Valeska Gert, and two self-portraits. #AYearofStrangeFlowers https://t.co/GzckPTfPlA

French artist Odilon Redon was born #OTD in 1840. Here is the character Des Esseintes contemplating his Redon collection in Huysmans's À rebours (1884, here tr. Margaret Mauldon), along with Redon's 1888 frontispiece depicting Des Esseintes (*c'est méta!*) #AYearofStrangeFlowers

Darger was obsessed with weather his whole life. For a decade he kept a comprehensive meteorological diary in which he compared official forecasts with his own observations; discrepancies between them seemed to diminish his slender stock of certainties.

The opera "Maria Malibran" by Robert Russell Bennett premiered in NYC #OTD in 1935. Its subject was a hugely successful Spanish opera singer who established the template of the tragic diva, who had died 100 years earlier at just 28. #AYearofStrangeFlowers

Pianist and saloniste Misia Sert was born 150 years ago today in Russia; here she models an outsized brioche on her head in portraits by Bonnard, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vallotton. #AYearofStrangeFlowers

French artist Paul-César Helleu (who died #OTD in 1927) really cornered the Belle Epoque's rich-ladies-in-hats market. He was also responsible for the ceiling of NYC's Grand Central Station, while friend Marcel Proust captured him in fiction as "Elstir". #AYearofStrangeFlowers

... “Frère Pascal” was actually Jean Bourgoint, and he was once a fixture of artsy between-the-wars Paris, known for his unusually close relationship with his sister Jeanne, with whom he shared a bedroom and an opium habit; both were painted by Christopher Wood in 1929 ...