mercoledì 22 gennaio 2020
sabato 18 gennaio 2020
GENTE DI LAGO
"Mio padre aveva un suo piccolo ufficio doganale sulla piazza davanti all’imbarcadero di Luino.
All’arrivo e alla partenza dei battelli che andavano e venivano sulle acque italo-svizzere del Lago Maggiore, sdoganava, cioè visitava e tassava merci e passeggeri.
Spesso mi teneva con sé in quell’ufficio, dalla cui finestra guardavo con lui verso il largo sorvegliando l’avvicinarsi dei battelli.
Fu in quel modo che lentamente il lago prese forma in me, con le sue lontane propaggini, dietro i promontori, di Ascona e di Locarno da una parte e di Intra, Stresa e Arona dall’altra".
(Piero Chiara, da “Il mio Lago Maggiore”, racconto inserito nella raccolta Il verde della tua veste e altri racconti - foto di G. Gnemmi)
giovedì 16 gennaio 2020
mercoledì 15 gennaio 2020
Hopi
Hopi Katcinas - Piokot Turkwinu Turkwinu Mana (1895) drawn by the native people from the book of Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850–1930). Digitally enhanced from the original plate.
W la resolution
This is an acrylic painting on the found soviet-era portrait of Lenin. The canvas is a little damaged.
In 2015 the Ukrainian government banned all symbols and images associated with the USSR. But numerous oil portraits, sculptures, monuments and other images of Lenin began to be removed from public places decades before the "decommunization laws". What happened to the hundreds of thousands portraits of former Soviet leader? Many of them are already destroyed. Some of them had been left in attics or basements. Oleksandr is looking for all these forgotten things and giving them a new life and a new artistic content.
FAR FROM HOME by the amazing Matt Taylor
It's the dawn of a new decade and we're looking forward to what's to come in 2020... and to get it started right, we're excited to swing into the new year with a pair of posters for SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME by the amazing Matt Taylor.
Artist of the Week Brian Bolland
Artist of the Week #3: Brian Bolland
This week we feature the legendary Brian Bolland. For many, he is best known for being the artist on Batman: The Killing Joke – a story that is seen as being one of the best Batman stories of all time. For others he is best known for his work on with Judge Dredd in the British anthology 2000AD. Bolland’s interior work is few and far between, but he has had an illustrious career as a cover artist – mostly at DC Comics/Vertigo. Overall, he has amassed a large collection of work throughout the past 30 years, which has elevated him into one of the most respected artists today.
As you will see in the gallery below Brian Bolland uses a mixture of heavy inks and extremely fine detail in a way that complements each other harmoniously. His characters are interesting to look at, with finer details added to them in a way that avoids them from being stock standard.
Below is a gallery of his work from various points in his career. Enjoy!
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