Victor Hugo, Ma Destinée, ink on paper, 1857 Victor Hugo, who experimented with hashish, was another avid blotter-artist. After he declared Napoleon III a traitor when he seized power in 1851, he fled ...

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare ... Hugo self-deprecatingly described his approach to drawing as "using up spare ink" – but at its best, his art is "haunting" and "timeless".

A glimpse into the darkest corners of Hugo’s mind through his fantastical ink landscapes ... thanks to “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo” (to 29 June) at the Royal Academy ...

"These things people insist on calling my drawings... made in the margins or on the covers of manuscripts during hours of almost unconscious reverie with what remained of the ink in my pen." Victor ...

You feel so close to Victor Hugo in this exhibition ... Les Misères (working title), he has thrown down his pen and moved to his art table, sloshing great washes of sepia ink across paper to form ...

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 ...

The Drawings Of Victor Hugo. His artworks are lesser-known than his writing, but this is a chance to see his ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes. 21 March-29 June ...

As I made my way to a rendezvous with a friend, I found myself embroiled in conversation—not with anyone else, but rather in a curious introspection, a ...

However, a new exhibition at the Royal Academy makes the case for Victor Hugo, who is estimated to have made some four thousand drawings. All of them are on ... chiefly black and brown ink (he used ...

Artist Kim Daehyun, who goes by Moonassi, creates ethereal depictions of human connection using ink on traditional Korean paper that have certainly resonated with audiences — Lee confirmed most ...