Monday, May 26, 2008
THE BOOK OF FLOWERS
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Nearly 1,000 years ago, Lambert of St. Omer summarized all of human knowledge in a book called the Liber Floridus (Book of Flowers). Lamber...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
ONE LOVELY DRAWING,
part 19
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The legendary Will Elder passed away last week at age 86. He had a long, glorious career as a founding artist for MAD Magazine, TRUMP , Hum...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
THE BREATH OF ROBOTS
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Henry Reuterdahl (1871-1925) painted this lovely illustration for one of the earliest science fiction stories: Just months after the Wright ...
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Monday, May 12, 2008
TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL, (
part 2
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. The artist's dilemma: you can't accomplish anything without compromises, but compromises distort what you hoped to accomplish. One...
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Monday, May 05, 2008
REPIN
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One reason to take a second look at the great Russian illustrator Illya Repin is that art critic Clement Greenberg didn't think Repin wa...
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Monday, April 28, 2008
A GIFT FOR DELUSION
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Once upon a time, an artist was born in a shabby apartment in a bleak part of NY City. He grew up playing in vacant lots littered with junk....
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
PAUL COKER, JR.
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You've seen Paul Coker Jr.'s drawings all over the place-- on countless greeting cards, ads, magazines and comic books-- but when wa...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
EARTH, AIR, FIRE and WATER (and of course, ART)
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In the flickering light from ancient torches, the shadows on cave walls suggested mastodons and bulls to our prehistoric ancestors. They bec...
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