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Divine Time Travel. The shape of Time Travel machines in movies may originate in The Bible. The 'wheels within wheels' that we see in 'Terminator' and 'Contact' are described in the same way within "Ezekiel's vision of the chariot of God".
Are you sick with "AMERICANITIS"? If you had a case of burn-out in the 19th Century, you would've been diagnosed with "Neurasthenia" - or nervous exhaustion, also known as "Americanitis". It shared symptoms with CFS/ME & depression and was believed to be due to "too fast a life"
Mother & Child. Eugène Carrière (1849-1906) was French painter whose monochrome paintings focused on human intimacy. Isadora Duncan said of his art: "A great tenderness for all streamed from him. I was filled with such awe...I wanted to fall on my knees"
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) discovered the freedom of monotypes in the 1870s. He made over 200 monotypes - smudgy, fast drawings in ink on glass that become one-off prints. His subject was the brothels of Paris, as popularised by the novels of Émile Zola & Huysmans.
200 years before photography and cinema was invented Magic Lanterns dazzled audiences and brought them images from the world and the imagination. The first Magic Lantern slides were created in the 1600s, and were hand painted on glass slides.
Rorschach's Poetic origins. The famous Rorschach psychological inkblot test (1921) may have been influenced by a popular book of poems from 1857, by German doctor Justinus Kerner. Each of the poems in The Inkblot Book was inspired by an accidental inkblot.
Rotoscopes From Classic Disney Animated Films Superimposed With Their Real-Life Models. Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.
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Hope - the movie! Who knew that in 1922 a film was made that depicted Watts's famous pre-Raphaelite painting & imagined the story behind it. By this time 'Hope' was seen as outdated and sentimental, and Watts was rapidly falling out of fashion. No trace of the film can be found.
At age 27, Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) was creating lithographs for Goethe's Faust. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." His Mephistopheles is a dashing devil.
The Fantastic Faust illustrations of August von Kreling (1819-76). Originally a sculptor, the illustrations ended up being his finest artworks.