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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • John Picacio (update)

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    John Picacio is an award winning science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator that I first wrote about in 2006. He has been the recipient of the Locus Award, the International Horror Guild Award (x2), the Chesley Award (x5!), the World Fantasy Award and, just recently, the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. For those not…

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge (update)

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    There is a sub-genre within Victorian painting, Golden Age illustration and contemporary fantasy art that is sometimes called faerie art or fairy art. It dwells on those imaginary miniature denizens of woodlands and fields who are often portrayed with pointed ears and gossamer wings. As much as I like some of the former two categories,…

  • At the Edge, Allentown Art Museum

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    There is currently a spectacular exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA called At the Edge that combines some of the finest contemporary fantastic art with some superb examples of art from the 19th century that is part of the legacy on which the contemporary genre is based, and puts one in context…

  • Ilene Meyer 1939-2009

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    Ilene Meyer was a painter who created stunning magic realist, fantastic and visionary works, often involving continued themes of checkered planes, geometric objects, animals, sea creatures, flowers, fruit and other aspects of the natural world, real and imagined, swirled into cascades of looping forms as if pulled by strands of liquified gravity. Unfortunately news is…

  • Josh Kao

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    Josh Kao Is a concept designer and illustrator whose clients include Disney, Rythym and Hues Studio. Irrational Games, Microsoft 343 Industries and Electronic Arts, among others. Kao has a nice touch with atmosphere and atmospheric perspective, as well as a nicely theatrical use of lighting and a strong ability to use restricted palettes to advantage…

  • Fantasy art auction in support of Cyril van der Haegen

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    Despite what those politicians (on both sides of the aisle) who accept large campaign donations from the health insurance industry might try to tell you, the U.S. health care system is not the “best in the world” and is not “doing just fine” without some kind of government intervention — not while millions of citizens…