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Month: June 2009

  • Odilon Redon

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    Odilon Redon (Bertrand-Jean Redon) was a French Expressionist/Symbolist painter and pastel artist whose career in the latter half of the 19th Century was marked by restless experimentation with spare compositions, intense colors and blurred images that suggest more than they reveal. His dreamlike excursions into shifting mists of color and soft suggestions of form and…

  • Vasily Surikov

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    Vasily Surikov (Wassilij Iwanowitsch Surikow) was probably the foremost history painter in Russia. He was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a Cossack family in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Garnering awards and acclaim for his paintings, Surikov moved to Moscow, where…

  • Bob Peak

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    Influential illustrator Bob Peak had an impact a generation of illustrators and helped define the design and format of modern movie posters. Active in the middle of the 20th Century, Peak transformed movie posters from staid photographic collages or glamour shots to expressive excursions into a variety of design directions, from detailed rendering to spare…

  • Ben Aronson

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    Two things strike me about painter Ben Aronson’s work, geometry and edges. The geometry is often prominent, as in his cityscapes and interiors, arrayed not only in the patterns of their own geometric intersections, but in the slashing diagonals of shafts of light and dark, punctuated with floating solids of sun and shadow. Aronson’s edges,…

  • Winona Nelson

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    Concept artist and illustrator Winona Nelson attended the Conceptart.org Atelier, and currently works for Planet Moon Studios. She previously worked for Flagship Studios in Hellgate London and has done work for Wizards of the Coast, Platinum Studios and others. In addition to her concept art, character and object design and illustration, Nelson also does some…

  • Mike Lester

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    Mike Lester is a Georgia based illustrator and cartoonist who just received the National Cartoonist Society’s Ruben Award for Book Illustration, for his illustrations for Cool Daddy Rat, a read-aloud children’s book written by Kristyn Crow. In addition to his numerous illustrations for children’s books, Lester is an editorial cartoonist for the Rome News-Tribune, and…