Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

The Green Fairy. The artists drink of choice, Absinthe was banned in USA & France. "Absinthe makes you crazy & criminal, provokes epilepsy & tuberculosis, & has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman & a degenerate of the infant"

The Veil of Veronica is a Christian relic. A cloth-piece which, according to tradition, bears the likeness of Jesus (imprinted by blood and sweat). Various existing images have been claimed to be the "original" relic. It has also been the subject of an entire artistic tradition.

Post-Technology Future. The art of Simon Stålenhag depicts a parallel universe in which Hi-Tech, Robotics & VR reached amazing heights then suddenly collapsed. An alternative world in which we've regressed to the 1980s, and are surrounded by dead Super-technology. Amazing.

Ass & Angel. In 1861 Gustave Dore's publisher didn't want to take a risk on Dore's collection of 135 illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. So Dore self-published the book. It sold out in 2 weeks. His publisher sent Doré the famous telegram “Success! Come quickly! I am an ass!”

Four Modern versions of the Temptation of Saint Anthony.
He must be my favourite Saint as he is the Patron Saint of Lost Things & he inspired so much transgressive art.
Dorothy Tanning (1910-2012)
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Otto Dix (1891-1969)
Felicien Ropps (1833-1898)

The changing temptations of St.Anthony. In art of the 1400s "The Temptations of St.Anthony" were depicted as tortures by demons. By the 1600s, he was bothered by madness & daily banality. In the 1800s his temptations were entirely sexual
Pic 1- by Joos van Craesbeeck (1625-1660)

"FACES". Haunting images by Maya Kulenovic.
"They attempt to explore the essence of human existence, and often come up with uncomfortable truths." (Edward Lucie-Smith).
Kulenovic is a Canadian painter, born in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 1975.

"Anorexia Mirabilis" or miraculous lack of appetite is a condition that almost exclusively effected women & girls of the Middle Ages who starved themselves, often to the point of death. St. Catherine "refused food, but drank the pus from the sores of the sick". She died at 33.

In the days before TV, Cinema & Radio, the Victorian upper class (& later middle class) invented a popular form of entertainment. Known as vignette or tableau vivant (living picture) they dressed up in costumes & recreated static images from myth, legend & history.

Shocking. In his book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872) Charles Darwin used illustrations based on experiments by French neurologist G.Duchenne. He applied electrical currents to people's faces to "...obtain whatever expression one wished to reproduce"