A new painitng of Betelgeuse

My dragons are growing. They just got out of their eggs.
Here is Betelgeuse. He is wondering about the world around him.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

This is amazing. A surreal art a'la Dada.

Tomasz Sętowski - update

Tomasz Setwoski, Sunken World of Dreams, oil on canvas.

A quick update about Tomasz Sętowski.
If you are visiting Gdansk (the beautiful and famous city in North Poland) you should absolutely visit the Maritime Museum. The museum owns some very wonderful paintings of Setowski.

If you are by chance in Switzerland don’t forget to visit the Museum of Fantasy Art – actually the Centre d'Art Fantastique du château de Gruyères in Gruyères. This museum owns few paintings of Setowski, too. The castle Gruyères is one of the most prestigious in Switzerland and the medieval town is worth to visit too.

“The tour of the castle offers a walk through eight centuries of architecture, history and culture"

William Blake and his Great Red Dragons

This is inexplicable but nevertheless I am fascinated by the poetry and art of William Blake.

William Blake, the visionary, even hallucinatory English painter and poet, who lived at the dawn of the technological era (1757-1827). I think he was a better poet than a painter, but this opinion is in the eye of the beholder. Unlike most artists of his era he did not draw from life, claiming that the visions that appeared before him were clearer and more vivid than his perception of external reality. He was a happy lunatic, an fantastic artist or maybe a realistic one? Though it is hard to classify Blake’s body of work in one genre, he heavily influenced the Romantic poets with recurring themes of good and evil, heaven and hell, knowledge and innocence, and external reality versus inner. Going against common conventions of the time, Blake believed in sexual and racial equality and justice for all, rejected the Old Testament’s teachings in favour of the New, and abhorred oppression in all its forms. He focused his creative efforts beyond the five senses, for,

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.—from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Around 1805-1810, Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings illustrating books from the Bible. Among these was a four-painting cycle of the Great Red Dragon (Satan) from the Book of Revelations in the Bible. The dragon is described as having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth.

Here are the paintings from the cycle of the Great Red Dragon:

Zdzislaw Beksinski - date of birth

Sorry for the mistake in the previous post about Beksinski date of birth. He was born in 1929 not in 1941. I have no idea why I did it. Google/ Blogger doesn't allow me to correct my mistake anymore, also a new mystery and misery of the wonderful program.

The Fantastic Art of Beksinski

I hope you have heard the name Zdzislaw Beksinski. One of the most talented Fantasy Artists from the last decades of XX Century. (Born in 1941, died in 2005).

I am writing a post about him, but for the time being I thought you would like to see a video about his art. Under the video you will find a link to a amazing book about him (it is from Amazon.com). Watch this inspiring video. The artwork is 100% better in reality than on the screen.

The best books over and by Leonardo da Vinci

Here are my private selection of the best books over and by Leonardo da Vinci; especially for UK and Europe