Author: cparker
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Machiavelli, online graphic novel by Don MacDonald
Niccolò Machiavelli was a 15th Century Italian diplomat, philosopher and writer, from whose political treatise, The Prince, along with other writings, we get the contemporary usage of his name in the term Machiavellian, referring to the use of deceptive cunning and planning in politics. Machiavelli himself, however, was hardly an example of the intricate political…
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Margarita (Hampa Studio)
Margarita is a beautifully designed, drawn and realized animated short (about 12 minutes long) from Hampa Studio. Another example of small independent studios doing high level work, this award winning story follows the adventures of a young princess (lived in the imagination of our actual protagonist, a young girl being read the story by her…
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Southwest Art Magazine
Southwest Art is a print magazine devoted to American Western art, with a focus on contemporary artists. The magazine is a division of F+W Media, and is related to sister publications that include The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist and The Pastel Journal. They post a number of full articles from the magazine on their website,…
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Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
As I described in my post about him from 2008, Benoît Mandelbrot was not an artist, but a mathematician. His work, however, has enabled others, from dedicated computer artists to dabblers, to create the multitude of stunning images we know as ‘fractals”. In the process, he deepened our understanding of nature and the concept of…
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Bill Mayer
Bill Mayer’s wonderfully energetic and delightfully loopy illustrations are flashes of pure visual hyperbole. His intensely colorful and beautifully rendered animals, monsters and freaked-out people just about jump off the screen, eyes a-goggle and huge toothy grins as wide as their heads (if they have heads). Mayer has a website with examples of his work…
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Art in Flanders, animated view of Flemish art
Art in Flanders is an animation that serves as the introductory page for the Lukas image bank of digital reproductions of Flemish art. The image bank itself can be searched and browsed by theme, timeline, or style. The image previews are zoomable, though within a frustratingly small window. The animation, however, is larger. In it…