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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.
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.