Month: June 2007
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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth
At some point in my impressionable youth, I was exposed to certain “corrupting influences” that twisted my little brain into a fevered pop culture pretzel and made me not only want draw comics and cartoons, but draw outrageous and weird comics and cartoons. One was my discovery of paperback reprints of E.C. Mad comics from…
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William Blake
William Blake was in turn ignored, considered mad, and called a genius and one of the greatest British artists. A visionary painter, printmaker and poet active during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, Blake pulled elements from classicism and romanticism, stirred them in the fires of his own wild imaginings and produced art that…
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Ann Marshall
When I was a teenager, I used to amuse myself by making pseudo-Surrealist collages, painstakingly cutting images out of magazines and pasting them together in whatever jarring juxtapositions my fevered little brain could cook up. This was pre-Photoshop, and the ease of digital image manipulation has rendered that kind of collage a bit moot. I’m…
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Neil Hollingsworth (update)
As I pointed out in my post on Chardin, still life is a branch of painting that doesn’t get the respect that it deserves, even though it has remained a staple of gallery art for centuries, and continues to be a popular area for contemporary artists. Still life may, in fact, be gaining ground in…
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Keith Parkinson
Yesterday’s post, with its image of Gustaf Tenngren’s magically dark forest, put me in mind of another fantasy artist who painted wonderful forests and amazing trees, but with a distinctly diferent style. Keith Parkinson was an outstanding illustrator and fantasy artist whose life and career were sadly cut short in 2005 at the age of…
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Gustaf Tenggren
Swedish illustrator Gustaf Adolf Tenggren had his roots (and judging from his illustrations, wonderfully gnarled and knotted roots they were) deeply into the rich soil of Scandinavian myth, and the fertile influence of other great illustrators, most notably the terrific and underappreciated John Bauer, who Teggren succeeded as the primary illustrator for Bland Tomtar och…