Fortean Art

[Aurora Newman]

I like the Nymph too x

 

[Kondoru]

I prefer his 'Nymph' from 1914. No matter where you're standing, they seem to be looking right at you.

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Another artist who has never seen a real woman.

 

[Frideswide]

Oberon,_Titania_and_Puck_with_Fairies_Dancing._William_Blake._c.1786.

I LOVE pictures of people moving in a circle...

 

[Mythopoeika]

I LOVE pictures of people moving in a circle...

 

[Frideswide]

@Mythopoeika I'm thinking Shaker-type Christians in the US?

It's aWONDERFUL picture

 

[EnolaGaia]

@Mythopoeika I'm thinking Shaker-type Christians in the US? ...

Yes ... It's an engraving from circa 1840 illustrating a Shaker dance or 'march'.

 

[Frideswide]

Yes ... It's an engraving from circa 1840 illustrating a Shaker dance or 'march'.

my second guess was going to be something from Gormenghast!

 

[Naughty_Felid]

Not seen this before - genius!

 

[GNC]

Malkovich Malkovich?

 

[Aurora Newman]

Flash Mob!!

 

[Naughty_Felid]

Jim Moir

 

[uair01]

A poem by my friend Paul de Jong. I find the idea fascinating. Could something like this really be written on an Egyptian papyrus somewhere?

 

[EnolaGaia]

A poem by my friend Paul de Jong. I find the idea fascinating. Could something like this really be written on an Egyptian papyrus somewhere? ...

I doubt it ... Ancient Egypt seems to have been a pretty rigidly class-stratified society. Anyone who was "vested in the program" and literate / affluent / important enough to leave a coffin (tomb; etc.) would have bought into the elaborate afterlife mythos and not risked screwing up their eternity by shooting off their mouths. Conversely, anyone in the lower class(-es) or a disenfranchised position who might well have that attitude weren't privileged to leave any persistent evidence of their disgruntlement.

 

[Kondoru]

Oh, Enola Gaia, too tidy.

This was the society who wanted to get drunk, take it all with them, and have Ushabis do all the hard work afterwards.

 

[Aurora Newman]

Book Of The Dead: Spell 30
(Stop The Heart From Betraying Its Owner)
O my heart which i had from my Mother,
O my heart which i had on Earth,
do not rise up against me as a witness in the presence of the Lord Of Things,
do not speak against me saying what I have done,
do not bring up against me anything I have done in the presence of the Great God,
Lord Of The West.

 

[Kondoru]

And they invented Cats.

The rest of the world was getting along perfectly well with Ferrets...

 

[uair01]

First museum solo exhibition of Bob Ross paintings. In the Netherlands:
MORE; Bob Ross – Happy Painting (lost-painters.nl)

 

[Souleater]

First museum solo exhibition of Bob Ross paintings. In the Netherlands:
MORE; Bob Ross – Happy Painting (lost-painters.nl)

Not really big into landscapes but some of his work i like, the ones with the more abstract colours such as the wave picture and the cactus

 

[uair01]

I'm researching the outsider artist J.T. Colfax. This is great:

New York Man's Writings Causing Stir in Clarksburg, W.Va. (apnews.com)