Month: November 2006
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Aly Fell
Somewhere in the base of my brain lives the 12-year-old me, still a sucker for classic pin-up art, lurid pulp and detective story covers and clichéd 50’s sci-fi ray gun and spaceship illustrations, particularly involving beautiful women. So I can’t help but love images like this mock comic cover, in all its misty-planet, skin-tight spacesuit…
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Flame Fractals
Art and mathematics have a long but somewhat strained history. Well, that’s not quite true. It isn’t the intersection of art and mathematics that’s problematic, but our limited ability to understand and appreciate that relationship. So images that are the result of mathematical calculations are immediately suspect as “not art”, and I’ll be the first…
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Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
Many artists, though certainly not all, are obsessed with beauty. Titian, also known by a number of other names, but most properly Tiziano Vecellio, was obviously one of them. In addition to his desire to create works of great beauty, which he certainly did, was his fascination with the physical beauty of idealized women, as…
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Tom Kidd
I’ve long had a fascination with airships. The idea of an aircraft that drifts slowly through the sea of sky, gently buoyed by the density of air rather than forcing its way up with raw power, has always seemed appealing. If they ever get around to offering luxury cruises by airship, I’ll be among the…
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Francis Livingston
Although influenced by Sargent and Whistler, Francis Livingston painted for a while almost monochromatically, but eventually embraced color with a vengeance, apparently after studying the painters of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, the California Impressionists and their inspiration, the original French Impressionists. I wouldn’t put Livingston’s work in the Impressionist mold, though. Instead of small…
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Russ Manning
You might look at the comic page above and think “Oh, someone’s doing a take-off of Star Wars.”, except that you’d be wrong by almost 40 years. It’s a page from Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 AD, a character created and drawn by comics artist Russ Manning in the early 1960’s. Magnus, Robot Fighter depicted a…