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Jun 4, 2017 · occult art. The Forgotten Occult Artist Who Refused to Paint for Hitler. A collection of works by Austin Osman Spare is on display at The Last Tuesday Society in London. JA. by Jade Angeles...
Sep 28, 2023 · Austin Osman Spare – occultist, avant-gardist and ‘Britain’s first pop artist’. The London painter’s works have become spookily popular of late. Austin Osman Spare at work in his...
Mar 12, 2021 · Austin Osman Spare may be “one of the most overlooked figures in British art history,” says legendary graphic novelist Alan Moore. But he often chose a path of near-obscurity since the creative vision that inspired his art also made him “possibly the greatest English magician of the twentieth century.”
May 6, 2011 · Art. This article is more than 13 years old. Austin Osman Spare: Cockney visionary. Austin Osman Spare was hailed as the next Aubrey Beardsley, but died in obscurity. Since then, he has...
Foreword by Alan Moore. Efforts to rescue Austin Osman Spare from obscurity have proceeded apace over the last decade or so. There’s been a plethora of exhibitions, catalogues and books devoted to the analysis of his art and contributions to contemporary occultism.
Photo credit: Royal Holloway, University of London. The New Eden 1922. Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) Royal Holloway, University of London. Draughtsman, painter, designer and printmaker specialising in bizarre subjects, which stemmed from his interest in mysticism and the occult.
Austin Osman Spare is the definitive biography of the controversial occultist and artist, an enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world whose work was both hailed as genius and decried as...
