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Month: September 2011

  • Flesk Prime

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    I’ve written before about Flesk Publications, a small specialty art book publisher that concentrates on presenting illustrators and comics artists. Among the artists are many that I’ve featured here on Lines and Colors. Flesk has published a book called Flesk Prime in which five artists are highlighted in the same volume. Four are artists who…

  • Régis Loisel

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    One of the most renowned and influential French comics artists, Régis Loisel is known in particular for his work in the fantasy genre. Along with Jean Giraud (“Moebius”) and several other pioneers, he helped set the stylistic standards that became the foundation of Franco-Belgian comics (“bandes desinees”) from the mid 20th century to today. Most…

  • New Metropolitan Museum of Art website

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    The websites of the world’s great art museums, as well as those for numerous smaller museums, serve as a resource both for visitors to the institution and for those who are interested in viewing and accessing online information about the artworks in the museum’s collections. As someone who routinely scours the web in search of…

  • El Mac

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    Miles ‘Mac’ MacGregor, AKA “El Mac” is an artist based between Los Angeles and Phoenix. He started out painting with acrylics and doing graffiti, moved into murals and developed a focus on faces and portraits, both in a photorealist style and in his unique signature style. He sometimes collaborates with an artist known as Retna…

  • Museum Day 2011

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    Museum Day, a day each year on which hundreds of participating museums around the US offer free admission (for those who have gotten tickets in advance), is tomorrow, Saturday, September 24, 2011. The event is sponsored and coordinated by Smithsonian magazine. From the website description: In the spirit of Smithsonian Museums, who offer free admission…

  • David Fuhrer

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    David Fuhrer is a Swiss concept artist, illustrator and designer based in Bern. His website showcases a range of his illustration, design and other images, both fanciful personal projects and more practical work for clients. When visiting his site you can choose between Flash or HTML versions, but in either case, open your browser to…