Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

Alien Art. I just found a homage to "Isle of the Dead" - the painting by Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901), in Ridley Scott's movie "Alien Covenant". Scott's inspiration may have come from H.R. Giger's "Homage to Böcklin" (1977). Giger created the template look for all Alien films.

@timlottwriter "Here's a crow for Christmas" the card says. And not a crow in sight!

The suspiciously pagan world of Victorian Christmas Cards. There are 9 pagan Xmas traditions: Holly, Mistletoe, Presents, The Yule Log, Caroling, Decking the halls, ornaments & Gift-Delivering Mythical Beings.

Un-used Star Wars image. This image was concept art by Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes back. It depicts an egg-laying alien creature on Dagobah, the planet where Yoda went into exile. It never made it past the drawing board. Amazing nonetheless

Amazing that this Max Ernst painting was the film poster for THE BIRDS by Alfred Hitchcock. The image comes from the film release in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s. Here's the original painting " Dressing up the Bride" and the 1952 American film poster for comparison.

Fizzles. In 1976 Jasper Johns illustrated an edition of a book by Samuel Beckett. It's called Foirades (or Fizzles)
The "fizzles" are 8 short prose pieces that explore determinism & fate. It is considered one of the greatest artist's books of the 2nd half of the 20th century.

The brilliant angels of Pietro Cavallini (1259 - 1330) emanate energy .The angels in Cavallini's last judgement have "multi-colour wings, like youths full of hope and good will." Cavallini, like Giotto, was a pioneer who led art from the Byzantium era into the Renaissance.

Nightscapes by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Derby is famed for "Painting the British Enlightenment". Depicting industrialisation and "the birth of science out of alchemy." His nocturnal landscapes are surprisingly sublime.

The captivating Double Exposures of Charles Swedlund (1935-). Swedlund, now 84, has spent a lifetime experimenting with the limits of photographic image making. He lives and works in Illinois.

The astounding Post Apocalyptic art of Chinese artist Jia Aili. Painted with the brilliance of an old master his art "represents the troubles of his lonely generation, marked with the absence of siblings and with the pursuit of technological progress."