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Month: February 2008

  • The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS

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    I’ll let you in on a little secret. Some of you may be under the impression from my posts on the subject that I’m an expert on the field and history of illustration, but that’s not the case. I simply know a little bit about some terrific illustrators that I’ve come across over the years.…

  • Richard Parkes Bonington

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    Richard Parkes Bonington was one of the great English landscape painters at the height of the grand era of landscape painting in the 1800’s, and a notable figure in the English watercolor movement. He is credited with carrying the influence of both of those artistic waves to Continental Europe and inspiring many European painters to…

  • Mark Bischel

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    Mark Bischel is another of those illustrators whose work I’ve encountered, but about whom I know little. His web presence is minimalist to a fault, consisting of a series of (unfortunately horizontally) scrolling thumbnails and the larger images they link to; which can also be navigated (fortunately) by forward and back arrows. His images range…

  • American Artist’s Self-Portrait Competition

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    I’ve always been fascinated by self-portraits (not that I’ve done that many myself). Here is not only the artist’s personality expressed through their work, but through their own inner or outer vision of themselves. Many of history’s great paintings have been self portraits, from Durer and Rembrandt to Sargent and Van Gogh, artists have made…

  • Une Semaine de Bonté at the Albertina

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    In 1934, Surrealist Max Ernst created an extraordinary collage novel (or, as I pointed out a few years ago, “graphic novel”), composed of collage images constructed of cut-outs from popular French periodicals and catalogs of the time. The result is a fascinating, spooky, wondrous and eye-opening excursion into the mind of a Surrealist master on…

  • Robin Chyo

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    We catch concept artist Robin Chyo at the very beginning of his career. A graduate of Academy of Art University with a BFA in Illustration, Chyo is working to build a career in the gaming and/or film industry as a concept designer and illustrator. He has begun by establishing a presence in publications like the…