“Born in Tokyo in 1926, Masayuki Miyata (d. 1997) was a gracious, modest, gentleman of exceptional talent. Receiving no formal…
Pictures + Words
The Kampung Boy
Lat. Kampung Boy. Published By First Second, 2006. I am currently working on vignettes of my life growing up in…
Karl Benjamin and The Birth of The Cool
I managed to make it to the last Free Sunday opportunity to see “The Birth of The Cool” at the…
A Rare Find: A Daring, YOUNG AND RENOWNED Architect!
In a profession, where mostly jaded and abusive old men with rich wives or inheritances, have long held sway over…
Joseph Cornell: Thinking Outside, Uhh.. Inside [The Box]
Joseph Cornell (1903 – 1972): An odd-ball, self-taught artist, who I returned to today, because I am bored with…
A Man After My Own Heart: Picture Book Artist Andy Runton
The creator of Owly, “a kind, yet lonely little owl who knows what it means to be human” –…
This Devil Would Wear Prada [Too]..
I happened to see the SS08 Prada campaign in one of those Fashion magazines that one submerges into – in…
Otto Nuckel: In Between Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward
Picture books by the artists I am completely taken up by currently arrived today. Destiny by Otto Nuckel – a…
Lynd Ward: A Follow-Up to Frans Mansereel
It’s said that Lynd Ward decided to be an artist when, in the first grade, he realized that “draw” was…
Frans Masereel
In the 1926 foreword to the Flemish artist Frans Masereel’s (1889 – 1972) “Passionate Journey” Thomas Mann wrote, “today, as…
Study for “Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh (with Candles)”
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