Michael Lierly is a dear friend of mine since freshman year of art school.
I did another post a while back on Mike, but recently saw some new pieces on his flickr, facebook and official site, so I decided to show you them in a new post. I'm wildly excited about these.
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| First Rite |
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| Th Young Initiate |
He spent a summer teaching in Little Rock recently, during which he was working on these drawings with the dancing nymph-like people. I think they are entirely from imagination.
The one below was a pose from a weekly figure group we were doing for a while. Love the little ghosty faces.
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| Night Singers |
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| Actors Feigning Death |
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| Annalea |
Beautiful landscape. It makes me laugh though because the whole scene looks like some kind of plein air outing mishap. "Hey, what the...? Who just ran into the frame?!"
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| The Corridor |
The one below is my personal favorite. The angels simply must be stolen from Caravaggio's "Seven Acts of Mercy", which appear on on of my t-shirts. I think he stole the angels from my shirt. The shadow of a passing cloud cast over the left edge of the painting creates a wonderful sense of depth as well as a psychological layer to the standing figure. She also looks like a hobbit.
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| Private History |
Michael is also a great draftsman and colorist, and has a wonderful sense of humanity about his figures.
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| Tema |
Gorgeous color study.
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| Maria |
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