16May 2022 by kike_K No Comments
Valeriy Grigorenko

Valeriy Grigorenko

Illustration
Our world is, at this very moment, enduring a most delicate situation. Apparently, humanity is doomed to repeat mistakes and nonsenses time and again, some awful things happening over and over. The nowadays conflict in Ukraine has caused the death of the artist Valeriy Grigorenko (1963-2022), he has passed away on 4th March during an attack led by the Russian forces against the city of Irpin. Grigorenko is well-known among the world’s modellers because of his astonishing illustrations in the scale model boxes. He worked for the Ukrainian firm Roden.
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17Dec 2021 by kike_K No Comments
The first airplanes

The first airplanes

Aviation, Illustration
I barely keep samples of my first works, as I used to give them away as gifts: so many got lost while other mysteriously ‘vanished’. Sometimes I meet people I haven’t met before, people who own one of my works. If it happens, I’d rather not ask questions. I presume I made these side views of an outstanding Boeing 247 in 1987 or in 1988. I remember the drawings were meant to illustrate an issue of the magazine Modelismo & Historia, so I was bound to adjust to the page template and layout and I have to do my best so these drawings would be achieved as quickly as possible. Working with the labels was an industrious task; besides, I had to draw the same aircraft twice so both airplanes…
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12Sep 2021 by kike_K No Comments
Warhol

Warhol

Illustration
I do not understand, I really do not understand Andy Warhol’s success (1928-1987). So many exhibitions and books about his works, no one work with a minimum of sensitivity, no ‘joie de vivre’. When the artist wants to give some human touch to these cold, impersonal pictures, he merely uses photomechanical tricks (some golden strokes for instance) and it turns to be much worse. One cannot help thinking these are works undertaken by a man who’s been shot. Warhol is Nosferatu, the Un-dead, hobnobbing Goya or Paul Klee, unapologetic, in every Art History book. We like the tomato soup bin however let us acknowledge that Pop-Art has always been some minor art movement; we would not have gotten any news if it hasn’t come from Anglo-Saxon culture. Andy Warhol had…
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