Alan Moore on Austin Spare from The Culture Show (BBC)

Author and magician Alan Moore discusses the virtually unknown but enormously talented Edwardian artist and magician Austin Osman Spare on The Culture Show from the BBC.

Austin Osman Spare (1886 – 1956)

Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilizationbased on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. His artistic work is characterized by skilled draughtsmanship exhibiting a mastery of the use of the line, and often employs monstrous or fantastic magical and sexual imagery.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Spare