Very nice fantasy art.

Alan started his professional career as an illustrator after graduating Rochester Institute of Technology in 1991 with a BFA in Painting and Illustration. His first job right out of school was for two covers for Marvel Comics - Conan Magazines.

He has since trained under his mentor of 6 years John F. Murray at The School of Visual Arts and the John F. Murray School of Art. He studied a traditional academic approach to Drawing and Painting that can be traced back to Jean Leon Gerome and other 19th Century French Academicians at the Ecole de Beau Arts in France. This training technique is known as the Riley Method. The Riley Method was taught to John Murray by Frank Riley at The Art Students League of New York.

During and after Alan’s training, he has developed a steady working relationship with many of his clients, most of which are top tier companies in their perspective industries. He has illustrated Book Covers, Calendars, Portraits, Advertising, Card Game Illustrations, Magazine Covers, Interior Illustrations and more. His work here will speak for itself as far as quality, photo-realism, and digital art go.

A Pulitzer-Winning Photographer's Suicide
Farai Chideya talks to the director of The Death of Kevin Carter, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist haunted by an image of a starving child.

Multitalented Artist Gordon Parks Dies at 93
Filmmaker and photographer Gordon Parks has died. He was 93. Parks captured black America as a photographer for Life magazine, and then became Hollywood's first major black director with the hit Shaft. He also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer.

Review:'Black.White.'Furthers Cliches of Black America
Commentator John McWhorter is the author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. He thinks the new FX TV show"Black/White"is full of stereotypes and cliches about what life is like for black America.

Interesting artist.

Just started in 1976 with oil painting. In the beginning as a hobby, now it has become more like a profession.

Beside oil painting I have made some etching work and a few lithography’s.

During the last years I am even producing some three-dimensional work. (e.g. bronze sculptures).

My total painting-production now is limited to approximately 55 pieces..

My themes are often surrealistic but figurative. It is for me the way to paint in a recognizable style.

Part-time working at a First Aid (E.R.) ward of the biggest hospital in the Netherlands (Rotterdam), it is obvious that the impact of my work is shown in my, with symbolism soaked, paintings.

So the themes “death, blood and misery” are often recognizable.

The temporality of life, the threatening of disasters and hints to hollow ideals are sometimes to be found in lots of paintings.

APPRECIATION / Gordon Parks did just about everything — photos, music, films, books — and did it well
There was that time, circa 1970, when Gordon Parks was riding with the Black Panthers in Berkeley when they were pulled over for "driving while black." Three cops came at them with guns drawn, but eventually let them drive on. As recounted by Parks in…
G. Allen Johnson

Richard Long's art can be viewed by all who take a hike — or go to SFMOMA
Richard Long has walked away from much of the sculpture he has made, after walking — often for many days — to some remote spot to make it. During his student years at St. Martin's School of Art in London, Long, 60, decided to make walking his method…
Kenneth Baker

Photos of 1906 earthquake and fire deliver new perspectives and fresh aftershocks
People who lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake will recall the jumpy, weak-kneed feeling that haunted them until denial set in again. They should prepare to experience that sensation once more, though faintly, when they see "1906 Earthquake: A…
Kenneth Baker

Amazing!

The pictures on this site are taken through a microscope.

MICRO-CRYSTALS are made by dissolving a chemical and evaporating the fluid by heating, or otherwise. During this process tiny crystals appear, which can be studied in polarized light.
Almost every chemical crystallizes under the right circumstances in an endless variety of form and structure.

Nothing but optical coloring is used. The pictures are taken with a camera mounted on the microscope.
Magnification: Imagine the pictures covering an area of ± 1 mm².

The BUBBLE PICTURES are taken without the help of polarization filters, but most of them, like the crystal pictures, through the light microscope.
A few are made with the help of my stereo microscope, when I needed a bigger surface. For coloring I used home-made plastic filters of various design, with one or two or many colors. So: the coloring is purely optical, though not natural.

I love graffiti!

Graffiti is the chameleon skin of the urban landscape. Equal parts public art and vandalism, virtuosity and subversion, it is among the most ephemeral forms of human expression. Graffiti walls are repainted frequently, as different writers compete and collaborate on the public canvas. A given piece may last years, weeks, or mere hours. For graffiti writers, this is expected and in fact fundamental to their process, which they perceive as an ongoing dialogue. However, most city dwellers experience this constant change only at a subconscious level.

Graffiti Archaeology (grafarc.org) captures this process of constant change and makes it visible. Grafarc.org is an interactive, timelapse collage of photographs of certain walls, taken over a span of months or years. The photos are precisely superimposed, so that by moving through the layers, you experience a compressed version of time passing, as old tags are submerged beneath new ones. You can see how one writer’s style changes over the years, or explore the dialogue between writers as they paint over each other’s work. The project also functions as a living archive, since most of the pieces on the site no longer exist in the real world.

Very interesting images…

These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when rown in a petri dish. While the colors and shading are artistic additions, the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of these microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature.

These are very cool; i think it is very hard to do such images…

This photo mosaic of Dick Cheney in full hunting garb is comprised of screenshots of several hundred news websites covering the story of his February 11, 2006 shooting of hunting companion Harry Whittington.

'Eccentric? Us?'
From their outlandish outfits to their habit of using typewriters on stage, the Guillemots might be the oddest new band in Britain - even if they refuse to admit it. Alexis Petridis meets them.

Philippa Ibbotson: Lift music is not elevating
Muzak is junk food for our emotions - and it inhibits our experience of more complex feelings, writes Philippa Ibbotson.

Robert Hughes on the modernist movement
Out of the chaos of the first world war came thrilling visions of utopia. Robert Hughes on why Modernism still gives him the thrills.

Very nice art samples from this artist.

Albert Robbe (1943) took a drawing-course at the School of Graphic Arts in Utrecht (NL). This basis for his later works was broadened by supplementary trainings at the Academy of Arts, also in Utrecht.
He worked as a freelance graphic designer for many years and made free works in graphic techniques and paintings in the style known as: ‘the School of Utrecht’ (a/o Joop Moesman, Pyke Koch). Three-dimensional and monumental he worked in order of a/o The Council of Utrecht, Dutch Railways, University of Utrecht and other companies abroad.

From 1977 onwards he worked as an independent designer of architectonic marketing concepts for fairs, showrooms and exhibitions. Big orders came from performing companies in the exhibition trade. He provided for example concepts for nearly all premier brands like Apple and Zeelandia. Especially in the last decade the drawing-table was more and more pushed away by the computer. This development caused Robbe to start painting again in the old-fashioned way with paintbrush and oil paint on canvas and panel.