Paul Pretzer: The Seventh Skill Marc Straus LLC 20 November - 23 December, 2011
Start with Hieronymus Bosch, lighten with illustrations from an early volume of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, sprinkle in a touch of Robert Hawkins and season with George Condo for a modern flavor, and, voila! You’ve got Paul Pretzer, a twenty-nine-year-old Estonian painter from Dresden. The combination of anthropomorphic, magically whimsical hobgoblins and oblique narratives has been a winning recipe for generations. Pretzer’s renditions are loosely stylized enough to be painterly; rendered tightly enough on board to be termed illustrative fantasy proto-realism (as opposed to photo-realism), and just creepy enough not to be too cutesy. Most visual story telling of this sort tends to be dark and angst-ridden, but whether or not he intended it, his paintings are too good-natured to be genuinely unsettling, and that may actually contribute to their popular appeal.
Several of the pictures are even kinda goofy,...
Start with Hieronymus Bosch, lighten with illustrations from an early volume of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, sprinkle in a touch of Robert Hawkins and season with George Condo for a modern flavor, and, voila! You’ve got Paul Pretzer, a twenty-nine-year-old Estonian painter from Dresden. The combination of anthropomorphic, magically whimsical hobgoblins and oblique narratives has been a winning recipe for generations. Pretzer’s renditions are loosely stylized enough to be painterly; rendered tightly enough on board to be termed illustrative fantasy proto-realism (as opposed to photo-realism), and just creepy enough not to be too cutesy. Most visual story telling of this sort tends to be dark and angst-ridden, but whether or not he intended it, his paintings are too good-natured to be genuinely unsettling, and that may actually contribute to their popular appeal.
Several of the pictures are even kinda goofy,...
- 1/28/2012
- by christopherhartchambers
- www.culturecatch.com
A Chidananda Das Gupta memorial meeting was held in New Delhi on June 24. In the meeting organized by the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac), many eminent personalities paid their tributes to the filmmaker, film critic and historian who died last month.
The meeting was followed by the screening of the 1994 Bangla feature Amodini, produced and directed by Das Gupta, which had won him the best National film award in the regional language category for Bengali.
In the meeting, actor-director Aparna Sen described her father Chidananda Das Gupta as a person with ‘elegant thinking’ and a sense of humour which comes out as satire in his writings and his films.
Professor Saugata Roy – who made it clear that he was speaking as a family friend and not as Minister of State for Urban Development – said it was interesting that Das Gupta was never judgmental in his reviews or articles...
The meeting was followed by the screening of the 1994 Bangla feature Amodini, produced and directed by Das Gupta, which had won him the best National film award in the regional language category for Bengali.
In the meeting, actor-director Aparna Sen described her father Chidananda Das Gupta as a person with ‘elegant thinking’ and a sense of humour which comes out as satire in his writings and his films.
Professor Saugata Roy – who made it clear that he was speaking as a family friend and not as Minister of State for Urban Development – said it was interesting that Das Gupta was never judgmental in his reviews or articles...
- 7/7/2011
- by Bhushan Nagpal
- DearCinema.com
Idw has released this weeks comic book PR updates for your Apple devices. This weeks releases include Jericho, Doctor Who, Locke and Key and a few others for your iPhone, iPad or iTouch. I have to add how cool it is to see Jericho return even if it's only in comic book form. Check out all of these cool titles from Idw Publishing!
Jericho Redux
Dan Shotz, Robert Levine, Jason M. Burns (w) Alejandro F. Giraldo, Matt Merhoff (a)
Continuing right where the Jericho Season 2 television cliffhanger ended! This specially priced edition collects the first three issues in one affordable package, to prep you for the series' continuation, also available this month. Jake Green and Robert Hawkins are in the safe haven of Texas with the last remaining bomb from the first attack. From amidst the chaos, they're contacted by John Smith, the mastermind behind the first strike, seeking aid.
Jericho Redux
Dan Shotz, Robert Levine, Jason M. Burns (w) Alejandro F. Giraldo, Matt Merhoff (a)
Continuing right where the Jericho Season 2 television cliffhanger ended! This specially priced edition collects the first three issues in one affordable package, to prep you for the series' continuation, also available this month. Jake Green and Robert Hawkins are in the safe haven of Texas with the last remaining bomb from the first attack. From amidst the chaos, they're contacted by John Smith, the mastermind behind the first strike, seeking aid.
- 3/30/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
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