Art For Death's Sake

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American painter Philip Jamison who is known for working with watercolour as a medium in his many works that include landscapes, seascapes, and flower arrangements, died at 96 years:

https://www.foundsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Philip-Jamison-Jr?obId=22234793#/obituaryInfo

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Billy Apple, a major name in the New Zealand art world, has died. He was 85.

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/billy-apple-giant-of-new-zealand-art-has-died/KQ4IBESJQ5SOQ7QT466O52ORLU/

 

 

 

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

FB post reporting the death of British-born Aussie sculptor Marc Clark (wiki), just short of his 98th.

 

FB post reporting the death of American graphic artist Janet Doub Erickson (wiki), aged 97.

 

Will either receive Wiki standard obits? Hmmm…

EDIT: Obit for Erickson.

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Czech painter and sculptor from Bohemia Anna Chromy, died at 81 years (only foreign source available yet):

https://www.idnes.cz/kultura/vytvarne-umeni/socharka-anna-chromy-smrt-monako-socha-stavovske-divadlo.A210919_153809_vytvarne-umeni_klf

Her most famous piece is the empty coat, also known as The Cloak of Conscience.

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Mick McGinty, best known for his art work for the video game Street Fighter 2, has died.

 

https://www.thegamer.com/street-fighter-2-artist-mick-mcginty-has-passed-away/

[YoungWillz 18,911]

Mel Gooding, art historian, author and critic but probably more significantly (if you wanted a QO) occasional obituary writer for The Guardian, reportedly died on Monday: 

 

[YoungWillz 18,911]

On 22/09/2021 at 23:52, YoungWillz said:

Mel Gooding, art historian, author and critic but probably more significantly (if you wanted a QO) occasional obituary writer for The Guardian, reportedly died on Monday: 

 

No surprises for Mel Gooding: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/03/mel-gooding-obituary

[arghton 6,112]

On 08/07/2021 at 10:22, arghton said:

Juhani Palmu update:

https://www.iltalehti.fi/viihdeuutiset/a/680ee8bc-318a-4670-a579-51ecbad8dac8

Back from hospital. Can now be interviewed and signs paintings. There's also one picture of him smoking a cigar in bed, I don't think he'd survive a third fire.

https://www.seiska.fi/kotimaa/traagisessa-onnettomuudessa-ollut-juhani-palmu-yritti-jatkaa-maalaamista-vain-signeeraus

Juhani Palmu, 77, wants to keep painting as he has commissions that he "has" to do. Wants a prosthesis for this purpose.

This guy is already quite a miracle. He has been in a wheelchair for over ten years due to a ministroke, heart problems, diabetes and on top of all this he has battled urethral cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer and survived two house fires. And still keeps smoking in bed.

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

French performance artist Pierre Pinoncelli (wiki) dead at 92.

His "art" included:

*damaging 2 of the 8 copies of "Fountain" (1917) by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) with a hammer as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value.
*throwing a bucket of red paint over French culture minister André Malraux (1901–1976).
*using a sawn-off shotgun to rob a bank in Nice of 10 francs.
*cutting off the tip of one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia in protest of the FARC guerrillas holding French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt (b. 1961) hostage.

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

Facebook post reporting the death of stained glass window artist Patrick Reyntiens OBE (wiki) on 25 October, aged 95.

Quite a renowned establishment figure who has received loads of coverage from the British press in the past. Should get a QO.



Couldn't resist...

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

On 27/10/2021 at 17:21, Ulitzer95 said:

Facebook post reporting the death of stained glass window artist Patrick Reyntiens OBE (wiki) on 25 October, aged 95.

Quite a renowned establishment figure who has received loads of coverage from the British press in the past. Should get a QO.



Couldn't resist...

Called it.

Telegraph obituary.

[arghton 6,112]

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/iran-darroodi-painter-artist-modern-died/31535112.html

Iranian contemporary artist Iran Darroudi who made surreal paintings dealing with Iranian themed imaginery and strong lighting has died at the age of 85 in...Iran.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598089/

Also the subject of this 2009 documentary.

[arghton 6,112]

On 13/09/2021 at 19:58, Ulitzer95 said:

FB post reporting the death of British-born Aussie sculptor Marc Clark (wiki), just short of his 98th.

 

FB post reporting the death of American graphic artist Janet Doub Erickson (wiki), aged 97.

 

Will either receive Wiki standard obits? Hmmm…

EDIT: Obit for Erickson.

Did Marc Clark actually die? The death mention was removed from wikipedia as "unsourced" and one month one week later he still seems to be marked alive everywhere.

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

2 minutes ago, arghton said:

Did Marc Clark actually die? The death mention was removed from wikipedia as "unsourced" and one month one week later he still seems to be marked alive everywhere.

Several art pages on Facebook say so. Pretty sure he's died and it's just not been picked up. This happens a lot with artists – Vladas Meskenas and Wook Kundor spring to mind.

BTW, My list of Wiki bios with subjects who are dead, but for which no reliable source exists to mark them as dead, is now in excess of 300 names. Some will get sorted in time, others possibly never.

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2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Several art pages on Facebook say so. Pretty sure he's died and it's just not been picked up. This happens a lot with artists – Vladas Meskenas and Wook Kundor spring to mind.

BTW, My list of Wiki bios with subjects who are dead, but for which no reliable source exists to mark them as dead, is now in excess of 300 names. Some will get sorted in time, others possibly never.

Wook Kundor? Did you mean Loongkoonan?

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

18 minutes ago, drol said:

Wook Kundor? Did you mean Loongkoonan?

Yes that's the one! Thanks.

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

On 29/10/2021 at 12:43, arghton said:

Did Marc Clark actually die? The death mention was removed from wikipedia as "unsourced" and one month one week later he still seems to be marked alive everywhere.

Source for death.

[arghton 6,112]

https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000008421078.html

Graphic designer Harri Manner dead at 76 from cancer.

Most known from creating the logo of Finnish record label Love Records (1966-1979), this masterpiece: 

[msc 17,708]

Trying to think where to put a book illustrator.

 

Chris Achilleos has died aged 74. A renowned book cover artist, his art was on the cover of thousands of SF/fantasy books in the 1980s and 90s, mostly famous the TARGET Doctor Who novelisations, the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and Star Trek tie in novels. He also worked with Whitesnake (the Lovehunter cover) and was a regular cover artist for the Radio Times. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, msc said:

Trying to think where to put a book illustrator.

 

Chris Achilleos has died aged 74. A renowned book cover artist, his art was on the cover of thousands of SF/fantasy books in the 1980s and 90s, mostly famous the TARGET Doctor Who novelisations, the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and Star Trek tie in novels. He also worked with Whitesnake (the Lovehunter cover) and was a regular cover artist for the Radio Times. 

 

 

Came here for this exact reason!

 

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11 minutes ago, msc said:

Trying to think where to put a book illustrator.

 

Chris Achilleos has died aged 74. A renowned book cover artist, his art was on the cover of thousands of SF/fantasy books in the 1980s and 90s, mostly famous the TARGET Doctor Who novelisations, the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and Star Trek tie in novels. He also worked with Whitesnake (the Lovehunter cover) and was a regular cover artist for the Radio Times. 

 

 

 

There can only be one tribute

 

 

 

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Dan Lacey, the pancake painter, is in hospital and in the very end stages of brain cancer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Lacey

 

Notable for his meme-y political pictures that inexplicable feature pancakes:

 

But it's not just political paintings, but also, for example, a picture of a naked Justin Bieber with a pancake penis, currently owned by rapper Macklemore:

https://metro.co.uk/2016/03/12/rapper-macklemore-owns-a-naked-portrait-of-justin-bieber-with-a-pancake-for-a-penis-apparently-5747972/

 

[arghton 6,112]

On 06/10/2021 at 20:46, arghton said:

https://www.seiska.fi/kotimaa/traagisessa-onnettomuudessa-ollut-juhani-palmu-yritti-jatkaa-maalaamista-vain-signeeraus

Juhani Palmu, 77, wants to keep painting as he has commissions that he "has" to do. Wants a prosthesis for this purpose.

This guy is already quite a miracle. He has been in a wheelchair for over ten years due to a ministroke, heart problems, diabetes and on top of all this he has battled urethral cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer and survived two house fires. And still keeps smoking in bed.

Palmu says that he "wants to live, get better and keep working" in a new interview:

https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10001863

News is that his heart stopped beating twice while being treated at a hospital this year after that second fire. Can now move around in a wheelchair again. 

[YoungWillz 18,911]

Rumours that Wayne Thiebaud, US artist famed for his depiction of everyday objects in the pop art era, has died.

 

Anything on FB or other platforms? Couple of mentions on Twitter.

 

Rather important - he's picked for the DDP. Would he obit? That's another matter.

[Ulitzer95 10,906]

Just now, YoungWillz said:

Rumours that Wayne Thiebaud, US artist famed for his depiction of everyday objects in the pop art era, has died.

 

Anything on FB or other platforms? Couple of mentions on Twitter.

 

Rather important - he's picked for the DDP. Would he obit? That's another matter.

Absolutely. I'm not much of an art wonk. What I know I learnt from my dad, but Thiebaud is massive in the art world.