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Book Review: John Harris, Beyond the Horizon
Not long ago I posted on English SciFi illustrator John Harris. A week or so later, I received an email from someone at Titan Books, publisher of a new book about Harris' art (some book links are here...
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Maurice Greiffenhagen: Painter and Illustrator
Maurice Greiffenhagen (1862-1931) was a Royal Academician, an instructor at the Glasgow School of Art, and an illustrator. His Wikipedia entry is here, and a link containing some of his illustrations...
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Mosè Bianchi: An Almost-Macchiaiolo
Mosè Bianchi (1840-1904) could paint traditionally, but usually worked in a non-academic manner. A short biography is here (it has links to longer biographies in Italian and French).Bianchi was a...
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Gonzalo Mayo's Intricate Comics Pages
I don't follow the comic book / graphic novel field very closely. But I do have a rough idea regarding how long it can take to draw and ink a page. Simply put, the more detail in the artwork, the...
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Stan Galli; Unobstrusive Illustrator
The image above shows the dirigible Graf Zeppelin over San Francisco Bay while on its 1929 around-the-world flight. Appropriately, the illustrator was Stan Galli (1912-2009), who was born in San...
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Richard E. Miller's Models in That Skirt
That Skirt probably was one Richard E. Miller's wife eventually cast off, and he thought it would be suitable for dressing models. Or not. I'm only guessing, and so will have to wait (for a long time,...
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Walter Gotschke, Automobile Impressionist
Seen above are an Auto Union and a Mercedes dueling in a pre-World War 2 race. The illustrator is Walter Gotschke (1912-2000) who reconstructed many such scenes after the war using a distinctive...
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Félix Mas: Stylized Women in Decorative Settings
What was there about Spain in, say, the 1950s? The water? The Rioja? Anyway, the country produced some really talented comics artists who were trained around that time. One example is Félix Mas (1935 -...
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Up Close: Boldini's Giuseppe Verdi
Fans of late nineteenth century painting who are planning a trip that includes Rome should try to find time to visit the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna. It's on the grounds of the Villa Borghese, a...
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Peregrine Heathcote's 1930s Pseudo-Nostalgia
I'm puzzling over how to classify the art of Peregrine Heathcote (1973 - ). On the one hand, he makes part of his living painting portraits, but few of these turn up in Google Images searches. What one...
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Anders Zorn Watercolor Paintings
I already wrote about Anders Zorn (1860-1920) twice (here and here). But there's seldom enough of a good thing, so I'm posting once more on the Swedish master (Wikipedia entry here and a site with many...
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Up Close: Morelli's Temptation of St. Anthony
A couple of years ago I committed an error in this post when I inserted a photo version of Domenico Morelli's "Temptation of St. Anthony" instead of an image of the actual painting. Now I wish to atone...
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Digital Art: Benjamin Carré
Benjamin Carré (1973 - ) is one of a surprisingly large number of French digital artists who are doing well in the science fiction - fantasy field. (Is there something in the vin ordinaire?)Charley...
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Bradshaw Crandell's Glamour-Face Niche
The time was -- and maybe still is -- that a fairly safe way to build a successful career in art involved being able to paint faces of beautiful women. For illustrators the marketing sweet-spot was...
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Up Close: Boldini's Casati with Peacock Feathers
I was in Rome recently and made sure to revisit the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Web site here). It's on the grounds of the Villa Borghese, which puts it slightly off the usual tourist track....
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Hans Liska: Equally Good Drawing People and Machines
Some artists are good at people, but seem clueless when it comes to man-make artifacts -- sometimes buildings, but more usually cars, airplanes, ships and such. Others are all-rounders who seem to be...
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Really Large War Paintings in the Arte Moderna
There is a gallery in Paris' Louvre that, if memory serves, has nothing but huge easel paintings. Painting huge was not unusual during the 19th century. However, that largely fell out of fashion...
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Flapper New York: Etchings by Martin Lewis
Shadow Dance - 1930[Images copyrighted by Martin Lewis estate: click to enlarge]The etching above astonished me when I first saw it. Yes, the backlighting and shadows cast towards us make the scene...
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Leopold Seyffert: A Once-Prominent Portrait Painter
Leopold Gould Seyffert (1887-1956) painted portraits of many famous Americans during the first half of the last century, but whatever fame he had during his lifetime has largely faded. For once,...
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Windy Gaetano Bellei
I probably didn't drill deeply enough into Google, so all that I can report now is that Gaetano Bellei (1857-1922) apparently was born and died in Modena, Italy. And he spent at least part of his...
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