ILLUSTRATION ART
Monday, August 25, 2025

THE VIEW FROM SAVONAROLA'S WINDOW

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  Savonorola by  Fra Bartolomeo (1498 Be sure to keep your eyes open if you visit the convent of San Marco in Florence where the fearsome Do...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

THE MISCEGENATION OF WORDS AND PICTURES

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Words are different from pictures, which might explain why they have different names.   Even though words and pictures may never fully combi...
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Thursday, August 07, 2025

ERIC DROOKER's MOLOCH

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 I love this powerful cover to The New Yorker by Eric Drooker . The ancient demon god Moloch sits astride the city for the New Yorker's ...
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Monday, August 04, 2025

CAN'T DRAW HORSES

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Fortunately, Maurice Sendak couldn't draw horses.   His contract required him to illustrate a children's book called  Where the Wild...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

NOT YET

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AI continues to cartwheel through the arts, breaking crockery, toppling pay rates and forcing reevaluations of fundamental epistemological, ...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

MORE ABOUT BEAUTY AND UGLINESS IN ART

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The illustrator A.B. Frost drew with a marvelous line.  He had a special knack for infusing animals with character: Note the unorthodox way ...
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Sunday, April 06, 2025

UGLY'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

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In recent weeks, I've received an increasing percentage of comments criticizing pictures for featuring  "ugly" people or ...
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