Month: September 2007
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Astrona: Space and Astronomical Art Journal
Artistic visions of “the heavens” have been with us throughout the history of art, but pictures of space and planetary bodies probably date from the late 1800’s when conjecture about flights to other spheres became the topic of popular literature. Since then artists have portrayed other worlds with varying intent and degrees of scientific accuracy,…
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Dean Cornwell
Dean Cornwell, often referred to with the appellation “The Dean of Illustrators” tacked on, was a second generation inheritor of the Brandywine tradition of illustration, having studied with Harvey Dunn, a student of Howard Pyle and an eminent teacher in his own right. Cornwell carried the Brandywine traditions of bold figures, bright colors and dynamic…
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Armand Guillaumin
It’s amazing how strongly the lens of art history suffers from tunnel vision. In any given area we hear and see a great deal about the “stars” of that genre, while countless other artists fade into obscurity at the edges of our vision. Just who is “famous”, of course, varies from place to place and…