Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

Invisible Cities. French illustrator Gérard Trignac’s stunning illustrations for Italo Calvino's classic book Invisible Cities. Here are his fantastical architectures for the cities Leonia, Octavia & Zenobia. He also creates his own imaginary cities, some of which fly.

A precocious student of Freud - Max Ernst (1891-1976) was obsessed with the “Interpretation of Dreams” which as published when Ernst was 8. He also concerned himself with abnormal psychology & the artistic achievement of mental patients, which were beginning to be investigated.

Gulag Artist. Nikolai Getman (1917-2004) was a prisoner in forced labor camps in Siberia (1946-1953). He survived by selling his sketching skills to the authorities for their propaganda . By Soviet records 1,700,000 died in Stalin's Gulags. Others sources claim 6-12 million.

The stunning other-worldy imagery of James Zapata's Moon & Crow series.
@jameszapata_

Escaping the deadly waters of the subconscious. Collages from "A Week of Kindness or the Seven Deadly Elements" 1934. Max Ernst's greatest artwork, this surrealist book has 182 images created by cutting up and re-organizing illustrations from Victorian encyclopedias and novels.

Metamorphic Animals by Zdzisław Beksiński. The 1990s were a tragic time for Beksiński. His wife, Zofia, died in 1998. A year later, his son Tomasz committed suicide. These paintings show animals going through horrific metamorphosis into imaginary forms.

Life today as viewed from the Retro-Futurist past. In the late 1950s-early 1960s, futurist illustrator & industrial designer Arthur Radebaugh depicted life in the 2000s. It includes robots working in warehouses, cars that fly & swim, underwater homes & robotised farming.

The 1st Steam Man. in 1868 inventors Dederick & Grass of New Jersey invented & patented a "steam-powered humanlike robot designed to pull a cart." It was dressed as a man "so as not to frighten horses." The invention never took off but inspired Steam Sci-Fi fiction.
#Steampunk

Splendid Ruins. The art of Pablo Genovés (1959- ). His stunning photomontages show luxurious architectural spaces (palaces, libraries, theaters) overwhelmed by the forces of Nature. He acquired the photos for manipulation from a search of European flea markets & antique shops.

@EvieGold67 Burne-Jones is really growing on me, his work seems to be the most Pre-Raph of all, with its two dimensionality. Almost like a darker Giotto