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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 Matte painting is an old cinema art - now superseded by CGI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-)

The Lustful in Hell. The spiralling spirits of the lustful are found in Dante's Inferno (Circle 2, canto 5). They are "carnal sinners who subordinate reason to desire" "whose actions often led them and their lovers to death." Images by Gustave Dore and William Blake.

In "1984" Orwell created a dictatorship that literally erased people from History by destroying images of them. Orwell took the idea from Communism. Stalin & Mao Zedong regularly erased "problematic" comrades from the Historical photo-record. It meant they had been 'disappeared'

Dragons V Elephants. There was an eternal battle between Elephants & Dragons in India according to Pliny the Elder, a 1st century A.D. Roman natural philosopher & military officer in his encyclopedia (Naturalis Historia) The myth loitered for 1400 years.

9 dragons. Chen Rong (1200 –1266) was a painter of the Southern Song Dynasty celebrated for his depictions of dragons. Nine Dragons is a masterpiece of calligraphy - a large handscroll - that celebrates the extreme forces of nature - in keeping with Daoist beliefs.

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783) was a painter from an artist family in Nuremberg. She rejected offers to become a court painter, focusing instead to on insects & flowers. A recluse who chose art over 'the court', her paintings are botanically accurate Momento Mori.

Not the Cézanne we knew. "The Murder" belongs to a group of paintings (1860s) in which Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) exorcises the demons of his family life & indulges his fascination with romantic literature, fuelled by his childhood friendship with the future novelist Emile Zola.