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@dp_illustration Some more fantastical castles from the hand (and mind) of Victor Hugo.

The Ruins of Ancient Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). "His etchings of the remains of a great civilization couple his archaeological interest in detail with his flair for dramatic effect...the ruins suggest romance, mystery, melancholy, awesome possibility & loss."

"Mundus Subterraneus". Inspired by an accident in Mt. Vesuvius, 17thC explorer A.Kircher wrote the 1st book explaining geysers, & underground "lakes of fire & water". "the whole Earth is not solid but everywhere gaping, & hollowed with empty rooms and spaces, & hidden burrows.”

Vanishing into Ether. The visionary art of Agostino Arrivabene (1967-). An artist who fuses Surrealism with Renaissance-era skill. His art revives old ideas about life-force, energy, decay & the elements. Almost alchemical.

Alchemists. The beings in the paintings of Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo (1908-63) are often depicted at work in the process of magically transforming one substance into another with strange imaginary mechanisms. Varo had a life philosophy of non-conformity & studied Alchemy.

The Lost Surrealist. Edgar Ende (1901-1965) was a German artist. "In 1936 the Nazis forbade him to continue to paint or exhibit his work". André Breton, declared him an official Surrealist in 1951 but most of his art had already been destroyed by a bomb raid on Munich in 1944.

"Exquisite Corpse": the Surrealists got many of their first Art ideas from a an early 20th C parlour game they adapted. A piece of folded paper is given to 4 people; 1 person draws the head, the next the body and so on.
The following were made by Masson, Breton, Man Ray, Tanguey

Goya's Fear of Madness. Yard with Lunatics (1794) was informed by institutions Goya had seen as a youth. It was painted at the time when his deafness & fear of mental illness were developing. Asylums, then, were prisons the mentally ill were thrown into with no hope of cure.

Why Witches Really have Broomsticks. 15th century accounts explain broom-sitting as a method of applying "witches flying ointment"- a hallucinogenic balm - "to administer the drug to certain sensitive regions" The result was “a sensation of rising into the air & flying.”

"Beware the Beautiful Witch", illustration by Power O’Malley for the Halloween edition of Life Magazine, 1913. Emigrating to New York from Ireland, O'Malley did book illustrations for Life, The Literary Digest & Harper's. He reportedly painted sets for a Cecil B DeMille's epic.