Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

British artist Lizzie Riches’ portraits blend floral motifs with Elizabethan style and sometimes a dash of magic realism
https://t.co/bSFtkFvZyd

Self-taught Joris Hoefnagel was a leading 16C Flemish illuminator and pioneer of still lifes. Here’s some of his many superb nature studies ~ tulip, ichneumon fly, kidney & runner beans ■ pomegranate, worm & peach ■ dragonfly, carnation, pear & insect
https://t.co/YHgOTW2vMs

South African artist Esther Mahlangu started painting at age 10 and is still creating today, aged 87. She has gained international status with her large-scale, bold, vibrant, geometric designs in traditional Ndebele styles, using chicken-feather brushes. Thx to @Heelontheshovel

This is the first major scientifically-based pictorial representation of prehistoric life. Based on fossils found by Mary Anning, it depicts prehistoric Dorset, as imagined in watercolour by geologist Henry De la Beche in 1830, At R, later revised lithograph by George Scharf

Early 20C artist Samuel Peploe, a leader of the Scottish Colourists, absorbed various influences to create vibrant still lifes & landscapes infused with light ~ here, his Impressionist Still Life with Roses / a Cubist-influenced Still Life / & a Cezanne-like Landscape, Cassis

Dramatic rescue of 14-year-old orphan/cabin boy Brook Watson from shark attack in Havana Harbour ~ he survived, though with loss of a leg, and later became Lord Mayor of London, chairman of Lloyds and director of the Bank of England (JS Copley, 1778, MFA Boston)

With great prescience, this 1906 Punch cartoon by Lewis Baumer predicts couples might prefer to play with their “wireless” devices rather than talk to each other. Over 100 years later, this 2014 Banksy mural ‘Mobile Lovers’ seems to confirm it https://t.co/2CpRbx24EO

I‘m enjoying these quietly atmospheric landscapes of Norwich printmaker, the late Colin Bygrave ~ The Walk, Sherrington Park / Downs Landscape VIII

The beauty of detail ~ multitalented scientist Robert Hooke’s best-selling book Micrographica (1665), the first major work on microscopy, had fine copperplate illustrations of minute bodies he observed through a microscope he himself designed ~ here, a flea / eye of fly

20th century British-US artist Clare Leighton is best known for her woodcuts depicting rural men and women at work ~ Lapful of Windfalls ■ Harvest (lithograph) ■ Canadian Lumber Camp (1930s)