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Month: July 2009

  • Art Babble

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    Art Babble is a terrific site that promises to get even better, and probably rapidly. Art Babble, the tagline for which is “Play Art Loud”, aggregates art related videos from a variety of sources, most notably museums like the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Arts & Design, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Norman…

  • Cheeming Boey

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    Cheeming Boey draws on styrofoam coffee cups with a sharpie pen. Those of us who have a tendency to doodle on whatever surface is handy may not think that surprising, but the degree of skill and work that he puts into his unusual medium is outstanding. His subjects range from cartoons to detailed stippled portraits…

  • Wizard of Oz characters reinterpreted

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    As a fun addition to my previous article on W. W. Denslow, here’s a piece on The Design Inspiration that has collected some contemporary artists’ interpretations of the major characters form the Wizard of Oz book and film: 25 Various Styles of The Wizard of Oz Illustrations. To this list you can add Nancy Dorser,…

  • W. W. Denslow

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    Many more people are familiar with the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz than are familiar with the source book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by Frank L. Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Though not as iconically linked with the title as, say John Tenniel was with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,…

  • Judith Leyster

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    Through some remarkable combination of circumstance and personal strength, the work of Judith Leyster was not lost to us; as must have been the case with countless potential women artists who were denied the opportunity to even pick up a brush by centuries of restrictive social convention. Leyster was active in Harrlem and Amsterdam in…

  • Maxfield Parrish (update)

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    Today is the birthday of Maxfield Parrish, one of the great illustrators form the “Golden Age” of American illustratraton. For more, see my previous post on Maxfield Parrish, which includes a list of links to galleries of his work and other resources. I’ve included a few additional resources below that I’ve come across since then,…