Month: November 2012
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Lebbeus Woods
Lebbeus Woods was a visionary experimental architect whose designs, though they were seldom realized as actual structures, were tremendously influential on a generation of architects. His work took on concepts generally considered beyond the purview of architecture, exploring aspects of life and human society as well as the nature of space as defined by structures…
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Alex Ross at NRM
Alex Ross, who I profiled briefly in 2005, is an American comics artist and illustrator known for his work in the “fully painted” style of comics art. Ross has been one of the foremost proponents of this style, in which the traditional outline and color approach associated with comics is replaced by fully rendered, painted…
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Thomas Ehretsmann
French illustrator Thomas Ehretsmann began his career as a comics artist. As an illustrator, his clients include numerous European magazines and publishers as well as clients in the U.S. In 2009, Ehretsmann had the opportunity to study with the well known Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. Ehretsmann works primarily in acrylic on paper, utilizing that medium’s…
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Hey, America — vote!
Apparently there are some 90 million potential voters here in the U.S. who will not be exercising their right to vote today — perhaps too busy, too lazy, too put off by the relentless negativity of the campaigns, or just too unconcerned with the outcome of the election to be bothered. Maybe they simply think…
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Alfons and Adrie Kennis
Dutch artists Alfons and Adrie Kennis are twin brothers who work professionally under the studio name of Kennis & Kennis. They are highly regarded in the field of paleontological reconstruction art, where their paintings and sculptures portray prehistoric mammals and pre-humans. What delights me about their paintings in particular is the blending of rendered images…
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Walter Gay
In contrast to the cliché of the Bohemian starving artist, American painter Walter Gay lived something of a charmed life. He was the nephew of an established Boston painter, Winkworth Allen Gay, through whom he met and studied with William Morris Hunt. At Hunt’s suggestion, Gay moved to Paris and studied with the respected French…