Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2007

  • Dorothea Tanning

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    Dorothea Tanning was a librarian from Galesburg, Illinois who is now the oldest surviving member of the circle of Surrealist painters that was centered in Paris in the mid-20th Century. Tanning moved from Galesburg to Chicago at the age of 20, and studied painting by “looking at paintings in museums”, supplemented with some evening courses…

  • Gerry Mooney

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    Back in the mid to late 90’s, when the webcomics landscape looked more like an empty plain dotted with tiny houses than today’s bustling metropolis, one of those houses was an online comic called Bugbots: The Mansect Rebellion. Created by husband and wife team Gerry and Viki Mooney, the strip had a fun, brash, 60’s…