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Month: May 2007

  • Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi

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    I could have done a post on Daisuke Tsutsumi in any of several different genres of artwork — illustration, comics, painting or movie concept art. Though his primary occupation is as a film concept artist, Tsutsumi, or “Dice” as he is called, continues to pursue his interest in the other forms. As a concept artist,…

  • Edward Hopper

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    Edward Hopper found stillness in motion and geometry in light. His simultaneously strong and subtle images of houses, streets and intimate rooms invite us to quiet our minds and open our eyes to the beauty of the commonplace as revealed by shadow, sun and the warmth or artificial lights. Hopper takes us down city streets,…

  • Jules Bastien-Lepage

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    19th Century French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage had a short life. He first gained notice in the Salon as a painter of rural life, a theme to which he would return later in his career. His most noted painting during his lifetime was perhaps a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, which won him the cross of the…

  • Tim Bower

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    Tim Bower is another of those illustrators whose work I’ve seen and admired, but about whom I can find little background information. The fact that he is represented by Richard Solomon is a clue that he is in the top echelon of currently working illustrators, but even on Solomon’s site, he is lacking the customary…

  • Joseph Paquet

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    Sitting astride the Arno river, like a ruby on a blue ribbon, Firenze (Florence to us English speakers) is one if Italy’s most beautiful cities. (How the British got “Florence” out of “Firenze”, I don’t know.) Firenze, (OK, OK, I’ll call it Florence) is also the official sister city of Philadelphia, here in the U.S.,…

  • Syd Mead (update)

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    When I first wrote about futurist, concept artist and industrial designer extraordinaire Syd Mead back in November of 2005, I expressed my disappointment with the lack of a gallery on his official site. Unfortunately, that hasn’t changed. In the intervening year and a half, the official site has changed little, except to add an annoyingly…