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rick griffin: drawing as performance art
by Art Chantry: rick griffin was one of those guys who changed my world when i was a kid. the first time i saw a griffin poster, i realized there was a different existence out there. he became my hero. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Chris Darrow, ed big daddy roth, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rick Griffin, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, Surfer Magazine, Surfer Magazine John Van Hamersveld, von dutch
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indivisual artist: hallmarks of dialog
by Art Chantry: two blockheads. this is the sort of thing that sends contemporary amateurs into shivering fits of anger and jealousy. one of these people OBVIOUSLY ripped-off the other, right? i mean how can two images be any more … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged american graphic design, american graphic illustration, art chantry, Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer True Believer, Ernest Hemingway, graphic design, Isaac Asimoc I Robot, Isaac Asimov, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Shepard Fairey, Tomi Ingerer, von dutch
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shahn and beall
by Art Chantry: BEAT-UP VINTAGE DUSTJACKET OF THE WEEK AWARD: “‘illustrators ’60” – the annual of the american illustration (1960). design/lester beall, illustration/ben shahn (look real closely). (sorry my photoshop skills are so bad. i almost lost the shahn illustration … Continue reading
clean,crisp and sloppy as heck
by Art Chantry: yeah, i love a good bar-b-que, no doubt, no doubt. this is (of course) me, modeling the latest in extraordinarily hip bbq togs. i have a deep soft squishy spot for anything with lettering like this on … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, Domenic Prior, Domenic Prior Riot on Sunset Strip, Earl Newman, Earl Newman lettering, ed big daddy roth, insomniac cafe los angeles, Jay Ward, language of graphic design, lettering styles 1960's, Los Angeles culture 1965-66, Rick Griffin, shelly's manne-hole, The Beach Boys Smile, von dutch
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boris the anthropomorphic
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i always thought that guys like basil wolverton were wholly unique weirdos slaving away in their damp basements (tape on glasses, giggling incoherently). i grew up carefully examining wolverton’s crazy insane disturbing drawings (on stickers … Continue reading
copied out
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) ok, here’s that image by edmund sullivan that mouse spotted. this is the entire page i reproduce, rust stains and all. i don’t quite understand the whole “copyright crazy” era we’re in. when i started … Continue reading
don martin
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) Recognize this illustrator? you should. he’s one of the most famous cartoon/humorist illustrators of the last half century. most of us grew up reading and laughing at this guy’s work. this is what his stuff looked … Continue reading
von dutch and “disasterware”
von dutch and charles krafft…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is the story of how i hooked up with von dutch. it’s also the story of how i met the legendary charles krafft. birds of a feather, two eccentric and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, art chantry, boleskin house, charles krafft, charlie krafft, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed fotheringham, ed roth, graphic design, norman hathaway, Pablo Picasso, ray johnson, the mystic sons of morris graves, von dutch
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