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The 19th century New Age Hippy Pioneer. Artist Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913) created an Intentional Community near Vienna. His beliefs included living in harmony with nature, rejection of monogamy, anti-religion & vegetarianism. His commune went bankrupt after 2 years.
300 years before Surrealism- were the incredible ruins of François de Nomé (1593 – after 1620). De Nomé was a French Baroque painter, obsessed with ruins & catastrophe. He painted post-apocalyptic dream landscapes in a style that foreshadows the surrealists, De Chirico & Dali
William Blake & the Serial Killer. Blake painted the four Red Dragon biblical illustrations between 1805 to1810. They feature in the novel Red Dragon & its film adaptations, Manhunter & Red Dragon & in the TV series Hannibal in which the antagonist is obsessed with the paintings.
The Dark Fantasy worlds of Anton Semonov. Semenov is a 28-year-old digital painter and graphic designer born and raised in Bratsk, Russia.
His art is like childhood nightmares.
The gothic and dreamlike art & illustrations of Santiago Caruso. It is said that his art is "grounded in the symbolist aesthetic of the 19th century."
Indeed it is, and paradoxically, that is what makes it relevant now.
Caruso is from Argentina and was born in 1982.
"Mother with Dead Child." German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) lost her younger son in World War I. Her art focused on war, grief & loss & was banned by the Nazis. She & her husband were threatened with deportation. Her home & much of her art was destroyed by bomb in 1943.
Artist Frances Macdonald's husband destroyed many of her works after her death - which is one of the reasons why her art is less well known than that of her sister Margaret and the other two members of "The Four" artist-designers who made the Glasgow Style successful in the 1890s
pt.4. The amazing Hand-Painted Matte's from the Ewok forest moon of Endor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. The acted action occurred in the black shapes and the majority of the epic views were paintings. Matte painting is an old cinema art - now superseded by CGI
Coraline. The wonderful, rare and thoroughly original concept art for the 2009 cult movie based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 bestselling novel. Remember the button-eyes!
Artist: Dan Krall
"As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them."
Collages by Anselm Kiefer (1945-)