Month: January 2006
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Felice Varini
Felice Varini is an artist who paints on or in architectural elements in a way that creates the illusion of a flat pattern or object where one does not actually exist. The illusion is visible only from one specific angle; when viewed from other points, you can see the fascinating series of markings that make…
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Jon Foster
Jon Foster’s newly updated site is still a little skimpy on background, and I don’t know a whole lot about him, except that I’ve admired his paintings in the Spectrum collections, seen some of his comic covers for DC and Dark Horse, and I like his work. He sometimes works almost (but not quite) monochromatically,…
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Saul Steinberg
I tried really hard not to use this particular image to represent Saul Steinberg’s work. I really did. Everyone’s seen it, and it’s not like there aren’t a multitude of wonderful and memorable Steinberg images to choose from: the clock with all of its numbers replaced with the word “Now”, the days of the week…
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John Picacio
John Picacio started out with a degree in architecture, moved into comics, then comics covers and then to science fiction book covers. He has illustrated books by Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Lucius Shepard and many more. He has received the Chesley Award, the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for a Hugo.…
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Barry Windsor-Smith
Barry Windsor-Smith is a British comic book artist and illustrator who initially made a name for himself in American comics with his art for the Marvel Comics’ adaptations of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories in the 1970’s. Windsor-Smith (often simply referred to in print as “BWS”) was heavily influenced by the art of the Pre-Raphaelites…
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Alphonse Mucha
Alfons Mucha, whose name is usually Anglicised as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. While living in Paris in he late 1800’s he adopted a style that was to to become what most of us think of as Art Nouveau (orginally referred to as “Le style Mucha”). Mucha disliked the term “Art…