tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476834555974175262024-03-13T15:26:37.718-07:00The Pictorial ArtsAn autobiographical examination of the pictorial artsThomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2713125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-2981675862963742732019-07-04T17:17:00.000-07:002019-07-04T17:17:08.555-07:00Happy Independence Day to all Americans!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Action Comics — 1948</span></div>
Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-23563868813224558152017-01-06T18:54:00.003-08:002017-01-06T18:55:27.862-08:00Sensational World-Wide Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #76a5af;">Ma! Dad! Leo the Lion is gonna be here! In person! I wanna go see him! Can we? Huh, can we? . . . Awwwww, why not?</span></span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-20846732986527670742016-12-12T17:13:00.001-08:002016-12-12T17:13:04.928-08:00Uniquely Personal Perspective<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">Thank goodness for Hannes Bok, bringing a uniquely personal perspective to the art of illustration.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Hannes Bok — Fantasy Fiction — June 1953</span></div>
<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-44693515622408141032016-10-31T21:24:00.002-07:002016-10-31T21:24:49.910-07:00Donald's Dream of the Triumph of Donald the First<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-88909728752621401792016-10-30T16:48:00.000-07:002016-10-30T16:48:04.564-07:00Spooooky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">A spooky illustration from a spooky book for a spooky time of year:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">Frederick Simpson Coburn — frontispiece for 1899 Washington Irving's <i>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.</i></span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-12298266999608979412016-10-20T23:14:00.000-07:002016-10-20T23:14:26.301-07:00Voyages Extraordinaires<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">A fantastic inspiration from the 1860s for Edgar Rice Burroughs' later Pellucidar series.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-4919277488410835122016-10-19T23:13:00.001-07:002016-10-19T23:13:40.970-07:00Superimposing Change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">And this is the sort of residence that an alchemist would have resided in (or perhaps STILL resides in), inhabiting a cold dark room with a single window on the upper floor lit by a lonely light deep into the night, ever attempting to alter elements or at least effect a superimposing change upon self.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-26467478927609791032016-10-17T18:30:00.001-07:002016-10-17T18:30:27.869-07:00Great Pleasure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">Alchemists took great pleasure in studying what came before.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-83405691448797076022016-10-16T19:01:00.002-07:002016-10-16T19:01:33.978-07:00Better Living Through Alchemy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-84013087400773220562016-10-14T22:42:00.001-07:002016-10-14T22:42:25.982-07:00Impossible Tasks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">If I've had past lives, and I feel that I have, I was an alchemist in one of them. I probably wasted a lot of time chasing after impossible tasks, which is pretty much what I'm doing in this lifetime.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-46651899175536731632016-10-14T22:21:00.000-07:002016-10-14T22:21:43.550-07:00Hooray! Hallowe'en—is—a—Coming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-31716995185550893442016-09-20T17:27:00.004-07:002016-09-20T17:30:41.348-07:00The Royal Treatment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #76a5af;">This is a lovely illustration by August Reseller from 1911 of a lion getting the royal treatment. 28 years later, Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion had a similar appearance and treatment.</span></span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-58984893258239226412016-09-20T01:27:00.001-07:002016-09-20T01:27:20.412-07:00Visit Cuba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">If you want to visit Cuba, you better do it soon before President Trump cuts you off and sends you to the principal's office. Actually, he'd make a good high school principal, I think — idolized by the teachers, hated by the students.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-53188270890941594112016-09-20T01:03:00.001-07:002016-09-20T01:03:53.556-07:00An Ironic Fist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">Any of you oldsters remember this guy? Buffalo Bob Smith and his little protege Howdy Doody ruled the peanut gallery with an ironic fist, way back when.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-71839679518098275332016-09-15T22:52:00.000-07:002016-09-15T22:52:16.783-07:0020 Thousand Million Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">This blog is not extinct, it's just taking an extended break. After all, we have 20 thousand million years ahead of us, so hang in there . . .</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-61329630285715635842016-04-10T23:24:00.002-07:002016-04-10T23:24:31.093-07:00Barr Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">Early George Barr work from an early fanzine . . .</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-81942864319574763652015-09-22T12:05:00.003-07:002015-09-22T12:07:02.347-07:00Empty Calories for the Brain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">Much of early 20th century advertising art can be considered kitsch — gaudy, tacky, however one defines the term. And yet, as 'art for the masses', it has appeal, at least as eye candy — empty calories for the brain. My aesthetic appetite always has a taste for the exotic flavors, whatever the caloric level.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-74553623077415280652015-08-28T11:15:00.000-07:002015-08-31T09:51:29.781-07:00Certificate of Ownership<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">It used to be that collectors of books would paste an 'ex libris' label in each of their lovely acquisitions. Basically it was a little certificate of ownership that indicated, "this is my treasure, hands-off unless I deem you worthy of loaning this book, and even then you better damn well return it", or sentiments of that nature.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">It used to be that persons with money would have their book plates designed by an artist of renown, making them quite collectible in and of themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">Then, back in the '60s, there were adolescents like me who bought, for a couple of bucks, a little box of mass-produced bookplates for my mass-produced books. Tolkien's Middle Earth had a huge upswelling back then and I had assumed this was an image of Bilbo Baggins, even though this guy doesn't have big furry feet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">I think I saw this same bookplate design at B Daltons a couple of years ago. Every once in a while as I look through books that have been with me for years, I see one of these with my name signed on it and think again, "this is my treasure . . . "</span>Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-8482766383729642532015-08-04T01:46:00.002-07:002015-08-04T01:46:27.321-07:00Now THAT's a Cowboy Hero . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-41094315359940051092015-06-05T10:32:00.004-07:002015-06-05T10:33:12.923-07:00Sweet Summer Nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">It's not officially summer where I am, but it's starting to feel like it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">A stipple print of art by Camille Roqueplan — 1839</span></div>
Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-87599494264785954682015-06-01T19:41:00.002-07:002015-06-01T19:42:31.606-07:00Strength and Swift Passage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e;">Once upon a time, these terra cotta winged horses stood at the height of an Etruscan temple, symbolizing strength and, for what it was worth to the viewer, swift passage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This sculpture has survived since before the Christian era and for all we know was modeled from life, before the extinction of such magnificent creatures, so I like to think.</span></div>
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<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-17912524880785569972015-05-26T13:55:00.000-07:002015-05-26T13:55:02.675-07:00We Move Too Fast!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">This was a sweet little graphic for a sweet little product, circa 1913. I sincerely wish that transportation had not progressed beyond this sort of conveyance (it's really similar to Grandma Duck's auto as rendered by Carl Barks). As a society we move too fast and have made things too complicated...and too reliable on non-renewable energy sources.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">Looking at this image last night, as I was processing it, I suddenly wondered who the hell is driving here? It's a hundred years too early for the Google Self-Driving Car!</span></div>
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Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-74644883669070929362015-05-23T23:22:00.002-07:002015-05-23T23:22:32.330-07:00Star Lore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #76a5af;">Even for star lore and mythology, this piece seems rather enigmatic, which of course is part of its appeal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Art by Julius Diez, circa 1915</span></div>
<br />Thomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-18486991816952459322015-05-22T22:18:00.002-07:002015-05-22T22:20:12.123-07:00Shape of the Clouds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">"Daddy, daddy, look up there at the shape of the clouds! I see a ducky and a frog! What do YOU see?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><br /></span><span style="color: #76a5af;">"Well, I see, um, well...uh...hmm, that is, well—hmmmm..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Franz Stassen — from a German edition of <i>Faust</i></span></div>
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