Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing:
“A witness to political revolutions and radical aesthetic shifts, Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) forged a pictorial sensibility of his own, characterized by anatomical, gestural, and psychological extremes. Bizarre, exaggerated, theatrical, and often melodramatic, his drawings embraced obscure literary and historical subjects intended to elicit profound emotional response.”
Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing
Until April 1, 2018
AIC / The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il
(Image: Henry Fuseli. The Cave of Despair, c. 1769)