Friday, July 26, 2024

Comics influences in Falls Church art show

Nature, Other Themes Abound in Fall Church Arts' All Member Show [fine art]
Mark Dreisonstok
Falls Church News-Press July 25, 2024: 2
https://www.fcnp.com/2024/07/25/nature-other-themes-abound-in-fall-church-arts-all-member-show/

"While artworks in the Western tradition often draw from classical mythology and classic literature, in the M-Z Member Show, the narrative references are often to comics. Watch Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder swing into action in Jennifer Murphy's "Pieces of the Dynamic Duo!" She has assembled and left, at times, unassembled pieces of a jigsaw puzzle image of an early Batman comic book on a traditional canvas. On the more genteel side of comics, Todd Schvaneveldt offers us an eponymous acrylic based on the 1950's French comic "Mireille," presenting fashion stylistics from the era in which this comic book first appeared. Nine Wells Prystay also taps into an agreeable comic-art style in her acrylic/pen/mohair "Nina Beside Herself.""

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