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  • Todd Bonita

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    Todd Bonita is a New Hampshire based painter who studied at the Art Institute of Boston, and here in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has worked as a muralist, designer, sculptor, painter and illustrator, and has over 30 books to his credit. As an oil painter, Bonita paints a variety…

  • Dan Santat

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    Dan Santat is a California based illustrator and children’s book writer. His clients include The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, The Village Voice, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster and many others. Santat is also the creator of the Disney Channel animated series, The Replacements. Santat’s style ranges from detailed to quite spare, but always seems to…

  • Kazuki Takamatsu

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    At first I thought these images by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu were 3-D depth mattes, renderings of 3-D CGI models in which shades of gray are assigned to areas according to their distance from the virtual camera. (Their white, sculptural quality also brought to mind the paintings of A. Andrew Gonzalez.) However, even if CGI…

  • Winslow Homer: Illustrating America

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    Those in the art establishment who like to rewrite art history, or simply ignore it, in the defense of their position that illustration is somehow “not art”, conveniently ignore the number of well known artists who also happened to be illustrators. A case in point is Winslow Homer, widely regarded to be one of the…

  • Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus comes to Chicago

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    Caravaggio’s striking painting The Supper at Emmaus is one of the most respected and influential paintings in the canon of Western Art. The occasion of the painting crossing the Atlantic to be on display at The Art Institute of Chicago is an occasion to be noted; similar to the significant visit of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid…

  • Scott Musgrove

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    Scott Musgrove is a painter, illustrator, comics artist and “Co-executive Director of the National Institute of Creative Biology”. The latter self-appointed title refers to his new imaginary bestiary The Late Fauna of Early North America: The Art of Scott Musgrove. Musgrove is the creator and producer of the Fat Dog Mendoza TV series, which was…