Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs.
Boullée’s most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton. It’s the first of the pictures below and you can find a short text about it here.
Walter Spies
The Edge of Heaven
The image of Bali as a place of great physical beauty laced with a mysterious spirituality has its origins in the works of a small circle of bohemian expats in the 1930, of whom Spies was the most influential.
Stanisław Szukalski
Behold! The Fall of Man
Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.
Anthroposophic
Architecture
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
Ben Tolman
Detailed views on inner landscapes
Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Jacob Kirkegaard
Nagaras
Jacob Kirkegaard‘s photo series Nagaras 1 and 2 explores a sonic phenomenon which only occurs in a few deserts around…
Moebius
Color work
It’s been a long time since the last post on Moebius. Back then I presented a selection of his black and white work…
Alex Grey
How Art Evolves Consciousness
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Rimantas Dichavicius
Blossoms among blossoms
Rimantas Dichavičius is a photographer and illustrator from Lithuania. In this book he confronts the female nude with pictures of nature.
Minoru Nomata
The Architect of Ruins
Minoru Nomata paints fantastical structures and towers, standing isolated in front of a subdued sky. Their purpose is mysterious.
Frieder Grindler
Posters 1963 – 2005
Frieder Grindler is one of the big names of German poster design in the second half of the 20th century.
Painted Land
Australian Aboriginal Art
The art of the Australian Aborigines is one of the oldest artistic traditions alive. This selection shows paintings from the mid-fifties until now by artists from the Arnhem Land region in Northern Australia.
Emma Larsson
Dreams of Beings Alive
She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.
Rebecca Reeve
Portals into the wilderness
Rebecca Reeve creates portals from the domestic into the wilderness with a bit of household drapery.
Karolina Daria Flora
Weaver of umbilical thread
Karolina’s mission is the transmutation of reality, her work far more than mere adornment — she weaves the umbilical thread that reminds us of dimensions we have just forgotten about.
Arthur Schopenhauer
On death and life as dying
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds…
Ben Roberts
Expired trips into the blue
Ben Roberts creates photographic contemplations of rural Japan with an unique artistic signature.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Finally, the story of the greatest science fiction epic never made has finally been told. Jodorowsky’s Dune is a new documentary about that beautiful, crazy-ambitious, disaster of an adaptation.
Johfra Bosschart
Unio Mystica
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Justine Kurland
Escape into a better world
To me these pictures present a futuristic vision rather than a look back at our savage ancestors.
Boris Bućan
Croatian illustrator
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
