Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

Bruno Shulz, was a renowned Polish Jewish writer & artist. His avant garde work explored the grotesque & surreal & the power dynamics between the sexes. He was shot dead by a Nazi officer when he ventured into an Aryan section of his town during World War II with a loaf of bread

Animals in the City. In the book Tales from the Inner Cities, Australian illustrator and writer Shaun Tan turns his unique imagination to "the nature of humans and animals, and our urban coexistence."

You may never have heard of Jozef Israëls - "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the 19th century" (1824-1911). He began as an Historical painter but an experience of poverty refocused his art to the depiction of the "poor and humble" with with emotion & pity.

The Limits of the World. Peder Balke (1804–1887) was a Norwegian painter, known for epic paintings of the desolate North Cape of Norway - the point in Europe closest to the Arctic. His art was too bleak for his era & did not sell well. He had to go into business to earn a living

When Van Gogh was 27 & 28 he was a social realist. He was concerned with the lives and plight of peasants & orphans. He ministered to coal miners in Belgium and attempted to be a missionary to workers. He failed in this ambition but developed his vision as an artist.

Cut short by death. In 1826, William Blake (1757–1827) was commissioned to make a series of etchings for Dante's Divine Comedy. Poverty stricken he "is said to have spent one of the very last shillings he possessed on a pencil to continue sketching." Only 7 images were completed.

Pt.2. Artist Samuel Bak (1933- ) was one of only 200 survivors out of 70-80 thousand to make it out of a Nazi labour camp in the Vilna region of Poland in 1944. His art explores memory, amnesia and the symbolism of dreams.

The fantastical illustrations of Sidney Sime (1865 –1941). "Sime was born in Manchester in poverty. After a 5-year career in the mines...as a "scoop pusher," work at a linen shop, a barbers, & as a signwriter he studied at the Liverpool School of Art. H.P Lovecraft was a big fan.

Film writer/director James Cameron is a skilled artist. Cameron made all of his own concept art & designs for Terminator, as well as designing the special effects. These are some of his hand-drawn images. He did the same with Avatar.

Caravaggio's burned masterpiece. Saint Matthew and the Angel (1602) was destroyed by fire at the end of World War II while stored in an anti-aircraft bunker in Berlin. Only Black and White reproductions of it exist - from these computer-enhanced colour images have been made.