chrisjohnstone (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chrisjohnstone) wrote,@ 2009-12-17 11:28:00 |
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Another Art Post
I just stumbled on Larry MacDougall via tor.com, and all I can say is, um, wow. Looking over the works, it feels like Larry must be the closest thing we have today to a living Arthur Rackham. Artists' works often have King Charles Heads* involved somewhere, and for Larry it seems to be movement, tea, riding and relationship of the carrier and the carried.
Matt Gaser is also sort of nine dimensions of amazing. I mean, just look at the image below... just look at it. And the other pics in his personal work gallery are enough to make the brain go into seizures of wonderment. Again, picking a King Charles Head, juxtapositioning of large and small, of differing sizes in general, dramatically or across spectra... I suppose.
I also spent some time recently drinking in the dark fairytale art of Linda Bergkvist. A touch more gothic than the previous two artists: moody, shadowy and other forms of darknessy.
* From Dickens. There is a character in one of the books (I forget which) who wants to write a book, but despite trying not to, he keeps coming back to the execution of Charles I over and over. A King Charles Head is a thing that one comes back to repeatedly.
I just stumbled on Larry MacDougall via tor.com, and all I can say is, um, wow. Looking over the works, it feels like Larry must be the closest thing we have today to a living Arthur Rackham. Artists' works often have King Charles Heads* involved somewhere, and for Larry it seems to be movement, tea, riding and relationship of the carrier and the carried.
Matt Gaser is also sort of nine dimensions of amazing. I mean, just look at the image below... just look at it. And the other pics in his personal work gallery are enough to make the brain go into seizures of wonderment. Again, picking a King Charles Head, juxtapositioning of large and small, of differing sizes in general, dramatically or across spectra... I suppose.
I also spent some time recently drinking in the dark fairytale art of Linda Bergkvist. A touch more gothic than the previous two artists: moody, shadowy and other forms of darknessy.
* From Dickens. There is a character in one of the books (I forget which) who wants to write a book, but despite trying not to, he keeps coming back to the execution of Charles I over and over. A King Charles Head is a thing that one comes back to repeatedly.
