Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

Pt.2. More fantastical castles from the hand of Victor Hugo (1802-1885) author of Les Misérables &The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The romantic artist Delacroix once said that if Hugo had chosen to be an artist and not a writer, Hugo would have “outshone the artists of their century”

@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.

Surrealism & Syria. Ayham Jabr is a Syrian artist who lives outside Damascus. "With his laptop, a bad copy of Photoshop and using materials taken from Google and old magazines, he makes these collages that tell us about the disasters of the war, which he experiences first-hand."

In summer of 1821 & 1822, English painter John Constable became obsessed with sketching clouds (as many as 50 in 1822). He annotated the backs with info on atmospheric conditions, time of day, direction & speed of the wind. Possibly scientific, they are nonetheless poetic.

The story of MOWGLI was based on the real life case of Dina Sanichar - a 6 year old boy living within a pack of wolves, discovered by hunters in India in 1872. His life was no Jungle Book, but a story of isolation & neglect. He could not adapt to modern life & died 20 years later

A Midsummer Nights Dream - is a 1935 American fantasy film of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle, starring James Cagney & Mickey Rooney as Puck. It is famed for it's Fairy sequence. The film was banned in Nazi Germany.

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.