Early experiments in spirit-guided and automatic art contributed to the rise of abstract and visionary movements ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” but less known is his work as an illustrator ...

A glimpse into the darkest corners of Hugo’s mind through his fantastical ink landscapes, caricatures and bulging sketchbooks is now possible thanks to “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo ...

Pen, ink, pencil, crayon and charcoal ... Royal Academy of Arts/Paris Musées/Maison de Victor Hugo/Hauteville Hous Hugo never exhibited his drawings, although they were known and praised in ...

Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and unnerving than truly great ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning "The ... "in private, his refuge was drawing". "Hugo's ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The ... “in private, his refuge was drawing”. “Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic ...

These are just three of the fantastical subjects depicted in this weird and psychedelic new exhibition of drawings by the 19th-century French literary colossus Victor ... the ink in my pen”. This ...

Victor Hugo, The Town of Viandan ... It would be a mistake to think Hugo was a great artist – though ink was common to his pictures and prose, his prose was better - but he was an interesting ...