Month: April 2007
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Sergei Bongart (update)
When I first wrote about Russian-American painter Sergei Bongart back in January of this year, I was disappointed with the small number of his works that could be seen online. Happily, Patricia Le Grand Bongart, Sergei Bongart’s wife and an accomplished artist herself, wrote at the time to tell us that there was both a…
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Flight 4 preview
For those of you who think that “comics” = pointlessly endless stories of musclebound, spandex-clad goons, grimacing as if terminally constipated while bludgeoning one another senseless, I once again offer the antidote and alternative of the Flight anthologies of comics stories. I like to emphasize the release of these particular books, not only because they’re…
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Alex Grey
There is a history of visionary or mystical devotional art, perhaps more prominently in Aisian cultures than in the West. Alex Grey has taken influences from some of those traditional art forms, including tantric art, mandalas, thangkas and other sources of imagery from India, China, Japan and Indonesia, and combined them with a very Western…
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Steve Canyon original art
Most art done specifically for reproduction, whether it’s illustration, cartoons or comics, is drawn or painted at a different size than the printed piece, usually a bit larger. In the case of American comic books, it’s ordinarily about 1 1/2 times the printed size, but for newspaper strips it’s often 2 x the printed size…
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Guy Rose
The influence of the radical modern art movement known as Impressionism came to the U.S in two waves. The first, logically enough, crested on the east coast and produced a number of remarkable American painters, many of whom were in a group of artists in New York and Boston known as “The Ten American Painters”,…