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Sleepless hell. Edward Munch was afraid to sleep in a bed & took long train trips at night to cure the insomnia he suffered from for decades. Prolonged insomnia symptoms are: generalised anxiety, paranoia, photophobia & loneliness - many of Munch's paintings depict his symptoms.
The romantic artist Samuel Palmer was nearly erased from history (1805-1881). His early paintings were pawned by his drunken brother & his later works were burned by his son - "The fire...lasted for days". He died largely forgotten and was only rediscovered in the 1950s.
More of the amazing pieces of Concept Art for "The Little Mermaid" by Kay Nielsen for Disney studios (1937).
Stunning Concept Art for "The Little Mermaid" by Kay Nielsen for Disney studios (1937). The film was postponed and finally made in 1987, thirty years after his death. (1886-1957)
Memories of the harsh life under Communism haunt the Polish mind in the paintings of Wilhelm Sasnal.
Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish painter and filmmaker who makes the grip of the Communist era on the modern imagination his subject. (1972 -)
I was not a fan of photorealist painting, until I came across the meditative landscapes of Gérard Schlosser.
The genius behind Disney's Gothic Modernist masterpiece Sleeping Beauty (1959). Eyvind Earle's original Concept Art.