Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

The demonic angels of Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926). In Schwabe's symbolist art, angels are restored to their original Biblical energies, and are agents of both good and evil. Powerful fearful creatures who can take life and seduce.

Flowers of Evil. The outstanding illustrations for Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire by Swiss Symbolist painter Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926). "The death of a close friend when Schwabe was 28 ...engendered his interest in representing death and the world of ideal creation."

Simplicity. Sometimes in an artist's career, they attempt to do complex, ambitious things, but it is a simple artwork that they made in one sitting, one afternoon that's their greatest work. "Portrait of a woman in Autumn" by French Symbolist painter Armand Point (1861-1932).

Demons in the art of German Symbolist Sascha Schneider (1870 – 1927) "Schneider lived with painter Hellmuth Jahn. Jahn began blackmailing Schneider by threatening to expose his homosexuality". Schneider "fled to Italy, where homosexuality was not criminalized at that time."

If you were a rich Saxon family during the Protestant reformation & you wanted a portrait of your daughter that would evade the censorship of Martin Luther - the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder offered a solution. Have her pose as Salome with the head of St.John the Baptist.

The Receding Hairline look. During the Renaissance, high, curved foreheads were considered an important indicator of beauty & good breeding. As a result well-born European women plucked out hairs from their natural hairline all the way back to the crowns of their heads.

Losing the head for fashion. In the German renaissance it was the height of fashion for aristocratic Saxon ladies to have their portraits done by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 -1553). Dozens posed piously with sword and decapitated head as "Judith with the Head of Holofernes".

Victorian Psychedelic Gothic exists!
The stunning prints of contemporary artists Dan Hillier.

Almost-lost memories. Somewhere between the aesthetic of damaged videotape and the art of Gerhard Richter, lie the gorgeous, melancholy paintings of Andy Denzler. Meditations on memory.

The Washerwomen of the Night by Jean-Édouard Dargent (1824-1899) is based on a popular French folktale about female ghosts who spend eternity doing their laundry & murdering unfortunate souls in the night. It has parallels with Robert Burns poem-with-witches - 'Tam o' Shanter"