Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

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"

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.” Andrei Tarkovsky

The Lost Pre-Raphaelite. Little is known of artist Robert Bateman (1842–1922). He had an illegitimate child, conflicts with other artists & finally retreated to a small Shropshire house where he painted his last painting of his wife before giving up art, 36 years before his death

The person who caused David Bowie's to have his "alien eye" was artist George Underwood. He punched him, aged 15. One of Bowie's oldest friends & the artist behind his most famous album covers, George was thanked by Bowie in later years for creating his permanently dilated pupil.

George Underwood, born 1947, is a British artist and musician. He is best known for designing album covers for T-Rex, Mott the Hoople, The Fixx & Procol Harum in the 1970s and his collaborations with lifelong friend, singer-songwriter David Bowie.
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was famed for his rustic realist American paintings, but he also created some very strange surreal images that seem like dreams.