Month: July 2006
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Rembrandt Drawings and Prints at the Met & Morgan
A friend just reminded me that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also honoring Rembrandt’s 400th birthday (see my post from last Saturday) with a special show drawn from their collection: Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints (July 11 – Oct 15, 2006). If you’re in range of New York, this…
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Jeff Jones
In a style that was markedly influenced by his contemporaries Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta, Jeff Jones created fantasy and science fiction illustration through the 1960’s and 70’s that was distinguished by strong use of color and texture and a wonderful sense of line within his painterly delineation of form. Jones was also a comics…
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Monster Allergy Animated Series
There is a new web site in support of the Monster Allergy animated series that has been developed out of the Italian comics created by Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa along with Iginio Straffi. I profiled Barbucci and Canepa and their Sky-Doll series in March and mentioned then again in June. I’m not certain how…
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NFB Animated Shorts
Over the years the film industry has evidenced support for short films, particularly short animated films, that is reminiscent of the kind of outspokenly warm and generous relationship that upper class Victorians reserved for out-of-wedlock children. The problem, of course, has been distribution. Since the demise of the practice of showing shorts before feature films…
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Rembrandt 400
Now here’s an occasion worth celebrating. Today marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the rootenist, tootenist, high-falootenist six-brush packing hombre ever to put lines and colors on a surface! Yow! Rembrandt, as you might guess, is one of my very favorite artists of any kind, any time, any which…
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Bernhard Vogel
I’m not always fond of artists who engage in the loose application of watercolor. Too often it results in a feeling of formlessness and lack of control over the materials. German watercolorist Bernhard Vogel manages to make his application of the paint seem as loose as can be while still exercising the kind of restraint…