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Month: March 2006

  • Garren Gallery: Russian Art

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    It’s not that often that I get to be overwhelmed with dozens of terrific artists that are new to me all at once. That’s the happy result of my decision to look into Russian art for the post I did back in January. Responses to the post have left me with a wealth of links…

  • Sir John Tenniel

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    John Tenniel is best known (and rightly so) for his beautiful, imaginative, definitive and absolutely perfect pen and ink illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There. Though many illustrators have done their versions of Alice (see Lauren Harmon’s lists of Alice Illustrators, and the…

  • Jamie Caliri

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    Jamie Caliri isn’t an illustrator, animator or graphic artist, he’s the director of two of my favorite recent short animations. If you haven’t seen Dragon, the wonderful, essentially wordless, animated ad for United Airlines in which a father tucks his son in bed and flies off on the back of a bird to meet with…

  • Henry Fuseli

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    A Swiss-born artist who lived and worked in Berlin, Rome and London, Fuseli is generally thought of as English. While in Rome he became fascinated with the work of Michelangelo and changed his name from Johann Heinrich Füssli to the Italian sounding “Fuseli”. Like the Pre-Raphaelites (see my post on William Holman-Hunt), who he pre-dated…

  • Ree (Cherie) Treweek

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    Ree (pen name for Cherie) Treweek is a South African artist and illustrator. Her fascinatingly detailed illustrations and drawings usually start as an ink drawing that she brings into Photoshop to be fully developed, occasionally in collaboration with Jannes Hendrikz. The images look anything but digital and modern, however. They seem to be from another…

  • Chris Beatrice

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    Chris Beatrice worked his way from an illustrator for computer games to art director, creative director and then general manager for a computer gaming company. He moved on from there to found his own game company, Tilted Mill Entertainment, whose latest release is Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile. Beatrices’ formal art training was in…