Year: 2010
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70 Million: art history themed music video by Hold Your Horses
70 Million is a song by Hold Your Horses, a French-American band, that has been made into a video by L’Ogre Productions in which members of the band (and presumably a few friends) pose in hilarious mock-ups of 25 or 30 famous paintings from the history of Western Art. If you get tired of guessing,…
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Patrick Hughes
The work of UK artist Patrick Hughes lends itself to viewing by way of photographs even less than sculpture, which is unsurprising in that it is essentially a combination of painting and sculptural elements. Sculpture, to be properly appreciated, must be experienced by moving through the physical space in which it exists, which changes your…
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Robert McCall 1919-2010
Robert McCall, the pioneering space artist who helped chronicle the NASA space program through some of its greatest triumphs, as well as open our eyes to the imagined possibilities of mankind’s future in space, died last Friday, February 26, 2010, at the age of 90. Even if you’re not directly familiar with McCall, chances are…
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Kevin Frank
Encaustic painting is an early painting medium, used by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. In the later case it was used for the well-known Fayum Mummy Portraits, the sometimes strikingly beautiful portraits done on wooden panels attached to mummies in Roman Egypt. Encaustic painting is a process in which pigment is added to heated beeswax,…
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Lawson Wood
UK painter, illustrator and designer Lawson Wood found a rather unique niche for himself amid the great turn of the 20th Century illustrators by going ape. Though he portrayed many other subjects, and even had other comic illustration series with particular themes, notably police officers and prehistoric scenes, it was his comic illustrations of apes…
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Errol Le Cain
British animator and illustrator Errol Le Cain was a member of Richard William’s animation studio in the 1960’s when they were producing the terrific and influential animated opening credits for films like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Casino Royale (the original, weird one). He also worked on William’s The…