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Diagram of Earth showing Hell and Purgatory by unknown artist. 15th Century

“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life." - Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record (1912)

Portrait of Joseph Conrad (1923-1924) by Walter Tittle

The Gloomy Day (1565) by Pieter Bruegel

"Because the world is so faithless, I go my way in mourning." - Pieter Bruegel

#Art #painting #Bruegel

Concept art by production designer Junge, Alfred (1886-1964) for A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Dir Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell.

#conceptart #Film #Cinema

Wonderfully detailed drawings from Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke, the first book devoted entirely to the microscopic world. Hooke's book was an immediate best seller, with Samuel Pepys describing it as "the most ingenious book I have ever read in my life".

#Art #Science

"The fact that I had seen chronophotographs of fencers in action and horse galloping..gave me the idea for the Nude. And of course the motion picture with its cinematic techniques was developing then too. The whole idea of movement, of speed, was in the air." - Marcel Duchamp

Illustrations by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900–1931) for Old French Fairytales (1920). She received the commission aged 19 but shortly after completion she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She completed a few other commissions before succumbing to the illness aged 30.

Art Deco Style Posters (1924-1927) by René Magritte

Self-Portrait with Cigarette (1895) by Edvard Munch

"I can not get rid of my illnesses, for there is a lot in my art that exists only because of them." - Edvard Munch

#art #EdvardMunch

Love Among the Ruins (Watercolour, 1873) by Edward Burne-Jones

“I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire.”

#art #painting