In the 1930s , the age of zeppelins seemed to lurk just around the box . Carel Willink , known for his bad bailiwick subject , devote this 1933 painting to imagining a urban center where zeppelin float overhead .
Thoughtout the 20th one C , Willink painted weird , lonely houses and people basking in the glow of Pompeii ’s ultra - destructive vent . Though it ’s often dub realistic , Willink ’s work has a substantial fantasy and alternate history feeling to it .
As Jonathan Coulthart saysover at Feuilleton :
Willink was a Dutch painter whose self - discover mark of “ imaginary realness ” conjured in its former years a collection of views of desolate plazas , empty lanes and abandoned dilapidation over which smoke or swarm string up like an threatening prognostication .
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