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Monday, August 30
A DIMA DRJUCHIN FOR TODAY
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Lloydville
on Mon 30 Aug 2010 01:10 AM PDT
Friday, August 27
Thursday, August 19
A ROBERT MCGINNIS FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Thu 19 Aug 2010 04:00 AM PDT
Wednesday, August 18
A COMIC BOOK PANEL FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Wed 18 Aug 2010 02:14 AM PDT
 We forget that large rock concerts are often occasions for shattering heartbreak . . . [Via Golden Age Comic Book Stories] Monday, August 16
A BENDA FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Mon 16 Aug 2010 12:04 AM PDT
 A study in green by W. T. Benda, Polish-American artist and illustrator from the first half of the 20th Century. He later became more famous for making exquisite masks used in theatrical productions. [With thanks, as so often, to Golden Age Comic Book Stories, the greatest web site known to humanity.] Saturday, August 14
A BÉRAUD FOR TODAY
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Lloydville
on Sat 14 Aug 2010 12:08 AM PDT
 Jean Béraud's portrait of remorse -- but for what? Thus did the Victorians tease and titillate . . . Wednesday, August 11
A PULP COVER FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Wed 11 Aug 2010 12:38 AM PDT
Monday, August 9
AN N. C. WYETH FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Mon 09 Aug 2010 12:32 AM PDT
 This is one of Wyeth's illustrations for Children Of the Bible. The tale it illustrates is curious. In Mark's account of the incident at Gethsemane, where Rabbi Jeshua was arrested by the Roman soldiers, there's a little aside about "a young man" dressed only in a sheet. When the soldiers tried to seize him they tore the sheet off and the young man fled naked into the night. This is such an odd detail, and so scandalous, since nakedness was a real scandal in the culture of that time and place, that many scholars cite it as an example of something that must have been reliably reported from the earliest times and widely known, since no later chronicler would have included it otherwise.  According to Mark it was a cold night -- so what was a kid doing out there dressed only in a sheet? No one knows, of course, but scholars have speculated that the young man (often identified as Mark himself) was sleeping in the house where the last supper was held, and seeing the rabbi and his disciples head off to Gethsemane, decided on an impulse to follow them. That moment of impulse is clearly what Wyeth is depicting -- in a dramatic tableau where the rabbi, touched by moonlight, walks off into darkness. [With thanks to PZ for illuminating the incident, and to Golden Age Comic Book Stories for the Wyeth illustration. The painting above, by Gérard Douffet, from around 1620, clearly owes a lot to Caravaggio's masterpiece The Taking Of Christ, painted about 20 years earlier and a far greater work.] Sunday, August 8
COMMIE JESUS
by
Lloydville
on Sun 08 Aug 2010 12:20 AM PDT
 If you're not familiar with it yet, check out the amazing graphic art of Dima Drjuchin -- in which many wondrous traditions somehow converge into something new. Mexican lotoría cards and lucha libre ads and Día de Los Muertos imagery get mixed up with Catholic devotional art and 60s psychedelic concert posters and comic book panels, all inflected with a truly eccentric imagination defying category. It's cool. See more of Dima's art here: Dima Drjuchin Friday, August 6
THE DEPARTURE OF THE WITCHES
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Lloydville
on Fri 06 Aug 2010 12:09 AM PDT
 Wait -- come back! At first glance, this looks like a painting by Bourguereau gone stark raving mad, or something Frank Frazetta might have done if he'd been a Victorian academic painter. In fact, it's a work from 1878 by Luis Ricardo Falero. Falero did a lot of supernatural-themed paintings with voluptuous nudes, but from what I've seen, this is his masterpiece. The depth of the image, and the smarmy but delightful eroticism of the scene, are wonderful. [With thanks to Boing Boing.] Wednesday, August 4
A CLOWN FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Wed 04 Aug 2010 12:03 AM PDT
 Illustration by Maxfield Parrish for Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days. [Via Golden Age Comic Book Stories] Friday, July 30
Thursday, July 29
A NORMAN ROCKWELL FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Thu 29 Jul 2010 02:24 AM PDT
 Breaking Home Ties, cover, The Saturday Evening Post, 1954. Friday, July 23
A ROBERT MCGINNIS FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Fri 23 Jul 2010 12:01 AM PDT
 Gold Dust -- with thanks to Golden Age Comic Book Stories . . . Monday, July 19
A PIETER BREUGEL THE ELDER FOR TODAY
by
Lloydville
on Mon 19 Jul 2010 12:56 AM PDT
 Beekeepers -- with thanks to Amy Crehore . . . |
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