Year: 2010
-
Fritz Kahn
Dr. Fritz Kahn was a Berlin based gynecologist who wrote and illustrated a number of popular science books that showed the processes of the human body as though they were machines. While the metaphors may be limited in terms of actually understanding biological functions, they make for great imagery. Kahn was active in the 1920’s.…
-
Dan P. Carr
Dan P. Carr is a Virginia based illustrator whose online illustration portfolio, as far as I can tell, consists of a Flickr set, and whose blog covers a number of delightfully rambling topics, from posts on choosing colors for palettes, to the names of colors in Old English, to vintage Cream videos, to Yeats poems,…
-
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is large and sprawling and full of amazing stuff, much like the museum itself. Also like the physical museum, wandering around and exploring is often rewarded with unexpected delights and treasures. One of the treasures on the Met’s website is the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.…
-
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was one of the best and most renowned fantasy illustrators in the history of the genre. Frazetta died yesterday, May 10, 2010 at the age of 82. Frazetta began his career as a comics artist, starting as a teenager as an assistant to other artists. He worked for smaller comic book publishers, producing…
-
Dan Seagrave
Born in the U.K. and now residing in Canada, Dan Seagrave began his career with an album cover for a local band. That expanded into a series of notable covers for other bands, though within a specific genre. Seagrave has continued to produce art for music groups, but his intricate, intensely detailed and highly imaginative…
-
Art Inconnu
Art Inconnu is a terrific blog that has been going since January of 2008, but one that I have been unaware of until recently. “Inconnu” is a word meaning a stranger or unknown person. Maintained by an anonymous “Curator”, Art Inconnu is devoted to “little-known and under-appreciated art”, sometimes obscure, sometimes just artists who seldom…