Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Alex Vetchinsky ( 1904- 1980 )
He is an artist of the cinema and does not pretend to be a painter of pictures. His work is never self-conscious and he has [...]
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This sumptious fruit salad was painted by Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire (French, 1845-1928)
It’s called “Still life with fruits”. You can really smell those peaches. Yum!
The French writer Marcel Proust frequently visited her popular salon / studio and claimed that she had created more roses than anyone, after [...]
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Sometimes called “Silent Night” Click the picture for the BIG version!
A Happy Yule to all readers of Articles & Texticles!
Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.
A delightfully dark short by Rodrigo Blaas and a mostly Spanish crew that’s won a slew of festival awards.
Full credits on the website here.
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Veteran animator Richard Williams has updated his classic guide for animators, to include additional material on animal action, invention and realism. The new version is called The Expanded Edition.
He was recently interviewed in BBC Radio 4’s “Midweek” programme.
Listen to his 10 minute interview here:
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Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Duncan Sutherland. (Born 1905 – )
Sutherland is another of those robust and jovial artists; like Vetchinsky, he bothers little about his drawings as such and depends for so much of [...]
A couple of weeks ago an international team of botanists based at Wakehurst Place in southern England achieved their primary goal of collecting and preserving seeds from ten percent of the worlds flowering plants.
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This important milestone is part of the Kew Millennium Seed Bank Partnership’s attempt to preserve [...]
A little explanation: “Snowballs” was the original working title for “Balto“.
These two keys show the interior of a gold dredging machine in Nome, Alaska.
The quality isn’t great because they are from colour copies, but the vision is spot on.
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Workshop interior.
Gold dredger interior.
Production designer Hans Bacher turned out hundreds of these [...]
I found this early version of the Pink Ball, by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553)
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