Month: October 2006
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Russell Stutler
You will often find information about pen and ink drawing, and there is certainly a a plethora of information about watercolor, but you seldom see mention of the meeting of the two. Born in Japan, raised in the U.S. and now living in Tokyo, Russell Stutler is an artist who has a fascinating site devoted…
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Childe Hassam
Unlike the French Impressionists, there was really no formal group that called themselves “American Impressionists”; this is a label writers have applied to American painters who adopted elements of Impressionist style and technique to their work. There was however, “The Ten American Painters”, a group of painters from New York and Boston who withdrew from…
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H. R. Giger
Sympathy for the Devil Dept.: I couldn’t resist a segue from yesterday’s post about Andrew Gonzalez’s images of transcendent grace to H. R. Giger’s grotesque collisions between tortured biological forms and nightmare machinery. Sort of balances the scales. (“Angels: 1, Devils: 1, highlights at 11.”) H. R. Giger is a Swiss painter most noted for…
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A. Andrew Gonzalez
Transcendence, spirituality and mysticism have been themes in painting for hundreds of years. Texas-based painter A. Andrew Gonzalez paints mystical-themed images, often of female faces or figures surrounded by radiant lines of light, and at times overlayed with intricate surface patterns. The Gallery on his site features images from periods in which his work has…
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Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph McQuarrie, although now retired, had a long and distinguished career as a pioneering and influential concept artist for the film and TV industries. He is most noted as the design consultant and conceptual artist for the original three Star Wars films. It’s hard to overstate the impact he had, not only on the look…
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Kay Nielsen
Danish artist Kay (pronounced “Kigh”) Nielsen was one of the great illustrators of the period from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries that is usually referred to as the “Golden Age of Illustration”. Nielsen is often mentioned in the same sentence with two other amazing illustrators, who were at the top of an…