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Month: May 2007

  • Antoine Blanchard

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    Antoine Blanchard was not a major figure in French painting, and it might be easy to dismiss him as formulaic, but I think his appeal goes beyond the obvious superficial charms of his paintings and his work is most interesting for the elements that you don’t notice at first. Blanchard’s paintings seem almost calculated for…

  • October the Cat

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    Here’s an animation in progress that bears watching. I learned about October the Cat from Michael Hirsh’s always fascinating Articles and Texticles blog. The actual name of the film is October le Chat, but despite the French title, the film is being produced in Argentina, and the project’s blog, October the Blog is in Spanish…

  • John Jude Palencar

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    Many artists try to flood their images with light; others allow intermittent bursts of it within a framework of darkness. In John Jude Palencar’s fantasy themed illustrations, light seeps in, like some kind of oily liquid making its way through forgotten cracks. Once light has found its way into his images, it simmers and squirms…

  • Antoni Gaudí

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    The Art Nouveau style that flourished around the turn of the 20th Century was notable not only for its international reach, but for its influence across many areas of artistic endeavor. The style is familiar in paintings and graphics like those of Alfons Mucha, but was also expressed in murals, mosaics, furniture, glassware, stained glass,…

  • Scott Altmann

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    Here we go again, another intriguing young (I presume) illustrator who provides little background information on his own site, so I’ve dug around for what I could find. Altmann graduated from the Illustration department of the School of Visual Arts in New York. He lists his favorite comics artists as Winsor McCay, Geof Darrow and…

  • The Center for Cartoon Studies

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    Cartooning and comic book creation have been working their way into the curriculums of mainstream colleges and universities, and there are now two (as far as I know) schools devoted entirely to the field. Unlike the long-established Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, a three-year school in New Jersey which concentrates on preparing…