Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

The Mind Libraries of Paul Rumsey. Rumsey grew up with no TV. "In my bedroom I had the ten volumes of Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia from the 1930s, over 7000 illustrated pages of myths, fairytales, history, animals, paintings and sculpture – all the wonders of the world"

Visions. William Blake (1757-1807) claimed to have seen visions, from as early as the age of four. According to one anecdote, the young artist "saw God" when God "put his head to the window", causing Blake to break into screams.

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was one of the most prolific & successful Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century. He nonetheless "He died in extreme poverty, his last recorded words being a request to the bailiffs that they would not carry away the bed on which he was dying"

Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) was an American painter who eschewed artistic trends like Cubism & Fauvism. She's best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress. She was in a five-decade long non-monogamous lesbian relationship & painted her lovers and friends.

A portal to another dimension. Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948) is a Japanese photographer & architect. "In 1978, he photographed abandoned American movie palaces & drive-ins ... exposing the film for the duration of a feature-length movie, the projector providing the sole lighting"

At the age of 101 years old, in 2012 - the Surrealist Dorothea Tanning died at her home in New York City. She had just published her second collection of poems.

@donbrownlondon @TheSimonEvans Indeed, and also the music of Wagner - who was friend and then foe of Fred

The exquisite pen and ink drawings of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). Considered the most important German artist of his generation, it is less appreciated that his epic, romantic images were based on rigorous, detailed studies of nature.

For every famous Edward Hopper painting, there is at least one detailed charcoal "study". Hopper was meticulous in his preparations. Oddly enough, his studies were not "from life" but were synthesised from memory, from sketches of sketches and from his imagination.

The Art of Fritz Hegenbart, (1864–1943). Hegenbart was an Austrian illustrator, inspired by Art Nouveau, who was part of an artists' association in Vienna. They split up in 1938 due to the annexation of Austria by the Nazis. Two of the group died in concentration camps.