Clara Lacy's 'The World Has Dropped Its Petals' is a series of elaborately detailed drawings illuminating the world of ...

Surrealist sculptor Ellen Jewett blends plants & animals in handcrafted designs. The post 25 Exquisite Animal Sculptures That ...

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Victor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition ...

Mention the name “Victor Hugo” and most people immediately think of his masterpiece Les Misérables, famously adapted into the iconic musical that has captivated West End audiences since the 1980s, or ...

One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...

When the French novelist died in 1885, he left behind The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables – and a fragile cache of jaw-dropping art ...

While the bite from a venomous blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) can result in a painful, potentially life-or-death emergency for humans, new research indicates it’s part of everyday ...

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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, Gift of the Gertrude ... yet as revelatory as an epiphany—in the modestly scaled surrealist paintings of American artist Gertrude Abercrombie.