I’ve been doing a bit of research on other artists and people in general who are intrigued by magic.
It turns out that a fair few well known artists are related to magic and such things. Including William Turner, Pablo Picasso and Josef Beuys.
Turner, who ‘encouraged perceptions of himself as someone whose pictures evolved through a process of mysterious wizardry..’ (Tate Britain, 2014)
He is said to have been ‘Likened to the alchemist of legend capable of tranforming base materials into gold.’ (Tate Britain, 2014)
The way inwhich each of these artists relate to magic is in a different way – I will look at the others in a future post, and go on to discuss each one more.
