Month: March 2011
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Kirb Your Enthusiasm
HiLoBrow, a cultural blog/zine/site whose motto is “Middlebrow is not the solution”, has asked 25 of their favorite writers to examine and write on individual comics panels by Jack “King” Kirby, one of the greats of late 20th Century comics art, in a feature called Kirb Your Enthusiasm. (I’ll write more on Jack Kirby, who…
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Jacek Yerka (update 2011)
I wrote about Polish painter Jacek Yerka back in 2006 and again in 2007. A recent visit to his website showed it to be updated with new paintings and worth another visit. Yerka, who some might label Surrealist, but I think of as a magic realist, primarily creates landscapes — of a sort. They are…
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Brian Dettmer
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer cuts into books, of which he which he has first sealed the edges, proceeding one page at a time, cutting around images and other areas of interest and exposing layers of pages beneath. He does not remove or replace content, he works with the internal arrangement of…
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The Brilliant Line
Though the physical exhibition for which it was created is in the past (having ended in January of 2010), the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design has maintained online an interactive called The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver 1480-1650. The interactive features 8 Renaissance and Baroque engravings, drawn from…
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Drawing Inspiration
Drawing Inspiration (Vimeo Link) is animated short from the UK, directed by Tim McCourt and Wesley Louis, aided by a group listed on the Vimeo page and on the Drawing Inspiration blog. A park denizen’s routine of sitting on his regular bench and drinking is interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious drawing of him,…