Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

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

The Still Lives of photo pioneer Louis Daguerre. Still Lives were more reliable than human subjects who moved about during the long exposures required. In 1839 Daguerre's laboratory burned down destroying the bulk of his early experiments. A mere 25 photos by Daguerre survive.

Macabre Dance of Marcel Roux. (1878-1922). Roux was a symbolist artist, obsessed with depicting evil & death, in order to evoke our cravings for The Good. He died aged 43. An art historian declared, "that he died too soon after having sketched his diabolical and apocalyptic work"

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.

Forest by Artur Grottger (1837-1867). In the last years of his short life artist Artur Grottger's political exile & poverty drove him to doing portraits for lodgings. Sick with TB he also created a series of drawings with black & white pencils on cardboard boxes. This is one.

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.”

Madam Satan was one of the sexy, Satanic Hollywood films that led to The Motion Picture Production Code, (the Hays Code, 1930) "The Code" clamped down on explicit scenes and themes in movies. Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan is also a crazy musical that is gothic, camp & weird.

"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.

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