Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

The Plot thickens! It turns out that one of Sarah Bernhardt's painting and sculpture tutors was none other than Gustave Dore - the world's greatest gothic illustrator - of Dante's Divine Comedy fame.The 19th century, eh!

A weak child, Mozart wrote his first symphony at age 8 & composed 1/2 the number of total symphonies he would before age 19. By age 20 he was the most renowned composer in Europe. At age 36 he was buried in a paupers grave. He said "Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Edward Munch's The Sick Child was among 71 paintings that escaped the Nazis after Hitler labelled Munch's art "degenerate art". At 76, when the Nazis invaded Norway, Munch feared they would destroy his art. The Sick Child was hidden & saved along w/a painting called "The Scream"!

Part 2. The Swedish Folklore illustrator whose style shaped the classic Disney look. Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970). After only 3 years at #Disney he "left the studio because of artistic differences with Walt Disney". These images are from his first job - Snow White (1937)

Fear not! The image of Satan was merely stolen from Paganism. Many Egyptian deities had horns, like Hathor & the Carthagian God Ba'al Hammon. Satan most resembles the goat-horned & cloven hoofed Greek god of nature, Pan. Pan also had pointed ears & a goatee beard & was a sex-pest

Part 3. The fairytale illustrations of John Bauer (1882-1918). Bauer died at 36 in a shipwreck that took all his family. The local papers in Sweden "fed people's superstitions that the mythical creatures of the forests (in his pictures) had claimed Bauer by sinking the ship."

Who knew? J.R.R Tolkien, creator of #LordOfTheRings, had a semi-secret talent: He was also an artist. His paintings for #TheHobbit & #LOTR are full of style & rich detail. Even after the publication of "Pictures by J.R.R Tolkien" in 1992, his art is still known only to a few.

More excellent illustrations from the 1906 edition of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds by the Brazillian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa. A novel that emerged from the Victorian imagination in the 1890s and became an obsession & the basis of many other stories over the next 120 years

The long lost Victorian era illustrations for H.G Wells War of the Worlds (1906), by Brazillian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa. Only 500 copies were printed & Correa died at the age of 34. It's classic #steampunk 100 years ahead of its time.
#scifi