Author: cparker
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Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Combat Art From the Revolution through the Twentieth Century
For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll mention that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to remember and honor those who have served in the military over the history of the country; though particular attention is given, as it should be, to those involved…
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Sara Tyson
Canadian illustrator and designer Sara Tyson makes the commonplace monumental, abstracting the forms of her subjects into multi-planed geometric solids and rendering them with colors and textures that give them the weight of planets. She appears to take her influences form 20th century modernism, particularly Picasso’s brand of cubism, Greek sculpture and decorative arts, and…
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M Collier
I know very little about this artist, not even whether “M Collier” is male or female. What little biographical information there is simply mentions that the artist was born in San Francisco, earned a degree in Art History from California State University, has “lived in and traveled to many places”, and now resides in Southern…
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Forget the film, watch the titles (update)
If you’re a fan of pop songs, particularly from the 1960’s when the three minute pop song was perhaps at its peak as a musical form, you’re familiar with the concept of a “golden intro”, that delicious first 20 or 30 seconds of instrumental music before the vocals start, that was often a thing of…
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Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle, the well known English cartoonist and satirist, started drawing cartoons professionally for the Cambridge Daily News at the age of fifteen. He served in WW II as an architectural draftsman and, while stationed in Singapore, was taken prisoner of war when that city was surrendered to the Japanese. Despite the horrific conditions of…
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Fred Gambino
For years Fred Gmbino’s refined, confidently rendered and highly accomplished paintings have been gracing the covers of science fiction and fantasy books, as well as serving the needs of clients like National Geographic, Scientific American, Der Speigel, Lego, Mattel and The US Postal Service. Over that time his approach has changed, from oil to acrylic…