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Post by Jesse on Mar 30, 2015 22:17:15 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Mar 30, 2015 22:29:19 GMT -5
Always loved Alphonse Mucha's lithographed posters and the way he draws women. Oh, me too. I have a Mucha calender on my wall this year, which has some gorgeous art in it. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 30, 2015 23:33:36 GMT -5
Nice to see a contemporary artist maintaining that "fine line" tradition. I like all the usual great masters, but here's someone I've only become aware of the last few years - initially through seeing a detail of this painting on a Penguin paperback cover: John Martin - Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion  If he'd lived today he might be known as a fantasy artist, as a lot of his subject matter was taken from things like Paradise Lost, ancient history, or indeed fantasy stories like Sadak, which was from a literary imitation of "eastern tales" of the Arabian Nights sort. |
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Post by Jesse on Apr 11, 2015 8:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by Randle-El on Apr 11, 2015 13:19:01 GMT -5
Also stemming form classic album art, I am a big fan of Roger Dean's art and fantastic landscapes. Usually associated with Yes albums, Dean's ouevre is much more... -M I also have enjoyed Roger Dean's work, but my knowledge of him is not album covers (Yes is a bit outside of my musical tastes). In the late 80s and early 90s, he also did a lot of box art for British computer game publisher Psygnosis. Psygnosis developed graphics-and-sound intensive computer games primarily for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST platforms. It wasn't until I was flipping through CDs at a store when I came across of couple Yes albums that I learned he did album cover art.   _Coverart.png) |
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 13, 2015 7:02:13 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Apr 13, 2015 11:41:41 GMT -5
For those who are fans of Expressionism I highly recommend checking out the work of Egon Schiele. I've always found his line work to be particularly interesting. I'm not a huge fan of Schiele, but when we were in NYC over Christmas, my son wanted to see a fairly large exhibit of his work. www.neuegalerie.org/content/egon-schiele-portraits-0Gustave Doré from Strasbourg always wanted to be a respected painter of monumental oil paintings, but he really found success only as a celebrated illustrator of books from fairy tales to Edgar Allen Poe, from Dante's Inferno to Cervantes' Don Quixote. Somewhere in my house, I have a large version of Paradise Lost w/ Dore illustrations and the text in Italian. I'm not sure what kind of shape it's in. |
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 13, 2015 12:03:56 GMT -5
I saw a Ferdinand Hodler exhibition in Paris once and become a fan. His famous painting "night" is almost safe for work, but I'll hide it anyway for the nekkid but shot. And he was quite handsome in his youth:  |
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Post by Jesse on Apr 13, 2015 12:05:03 GMT -5
He really did some wonderfully expressive portraits and figure paintings with some interestingly dynamics poses. |
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Post by coveredinbees on Apr 18, 2015 0:13:22 GMT -5
Jules Cheret   |
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 18, 2015 3:00:30 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on Apr 27, 2015 20:58:04 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Apr 28, 2015 2:16:46 GMT -5
Seeing those Leyendecker magazine covers and paintings, I suddenly realise where whoever painted the cover of Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare took his style from:  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 3:14:07 GMT -5
Seeing those Leyendecker magazine covers and paintings, I suddenly realise where whoever painted the cover of Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare took his style from: It's Drew Struzan and he acknowledges the influence of Leyendecker (and Norman Rockwell) on the style he was using at the time. -M |
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Post by Jesse on Jun 21, 2015 0:48:39 GMT -5
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