Month: September 2006
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Bruce Timm (update)
I wrote about Bruce Timm in this post last October. It’s been almost a year and, although he still doesn’t have a personal website, there is a significant amount of additional Timm material on the web, mostly on unofficial galleries. Timm is an animator, producer and comics artist. He is most widely recognized for his…
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Marie Spartali Stillman
I sometimes wonder how many potentially great women artists have been lost to art history, simply because the training and opportunity to enter into a career as an artist was denied to them by a culture that considered it an “unsuitable” role for women. Some managed to make their way through the gauntlet and make…
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Hilary Brace
Somewhere between earth and sky, landscape and seascape, mountains and clouds, natural forms and imagined shapes, float the drawings of Hilary Brace. Her richly toned, detailed charcoal drawings (she calls them “landscapes”) carry suggestions of twisted cloud towers, intimations of tornados and watersopouts, visions of waves and mountains and hints of mysterious tubes and tunnels.…
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Tim O’Brien
I’ve had this post about illustrator Tim O’Brien on the back burner for a while, ever since it was suggested by illustrator Jack Harris. Now seems a particularly good time to finish and post it, though, because Erik Olsen has just posted 2 parts of a fascinating 3 part Iconic Audio interview (Podcast) with O’Brien…
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John Henry Twachtman
Like Edmund Tarbell, John Twachtman is usually labeled an “American Impressionist”. Also like Tarbell, that essentially means he took what he liked from French Impressionism and generally went his own way. In Twachtman’s case, what he took was the light and atmosphere, the fascination for brilliantly lit landscape, the free and direct application of paint…
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Jacek Yerka
You will often find contemporary artists, particularly young artists, who become so fascinated with Surrealism, or a particular Surrealist, that they immerse themselves in that artist’s style, as if trying to live in their skin. The results are usually less than inspiring. Polish artist Jacek Yerka, on the other hand, has swum in the Surrealist…