Georges Jules Victor Clairin was a French painter and illustrator, working in the heady days of the Art Nouveau movement. Like Mucha, Clairin was drawn to Sarah Bernhardt, in more ways than one.
Poster of Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora by Georges Clairin
Theatrical setting of Bernhardt as Theodora by Georges Clairin
Theatrical setting of La Vierge d'Avila (The Virgin of Avila)
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My name is Thom Buchanan.
I'm an artist and photographer.
People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years.
I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.