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Wind - as captured in the art of Andrew Wyeth. (1917-2009). Wyeth was an artist fascinated by natural beauty and the seasons; the rhythms of life and death and birth.
The very first illustrations for H.G Wells' War of the Worlds were painted by Warwick Goble (1897). Goble wrote “I’m doing the dearest little serial for Pearson’s new magazine in which I completely wreck and sack Woking – killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways"!!
The Luddites - destroying new technology in the Luddite Uprising (1811 to 1816).
While Big Tech gurus enthusiastically predict 40 percent unemployment in the next 15 years caused by robotics and A.I - I imagine we're going to see a New Luddite movement soon.
The Streets of San Francisco - as painted by American painter, Jeremy Mann (1979-).
The reclusive Alan Lee, was the concept designer behind Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy & the Hobbit trilogy. He inspired so much of the look of these films. He'd been an admirer of the books since aged 17. He's now 73.
Tenderness and loss. Montserrat Gudiol (1933-2015) was a Catalonian painter. She began by studying the restoration techniques of old paintings at the age of 17. one critic said her art depicts "an unspeakable peace and a very human anguish."
The Shepherd's Dream, 1786 by John Henry Fuseli. This is a drawing with black chalk, brush, ink and brown ink, sanguine, white chalk and wash over pencil on paper. A technique also used by William Blake.
To be a "Painter of Apocalypses" - what a fine job description! This is The Deluge (1840) by Francis Danby (1793-1861) based on Noah's Flood. He painted "grand, gloomy and fantastic subjects which chimed exactly with the Byronic taste of the 1800s."