Post by petrolino on Apr 7, 2017 19:05:13 GMT
In a sad week for the world of art and entertainment, movie fans from across the globe have bid a fond farewell to actress Chelsea Brown who's died at the age of 69, actor Meme Perlini who's died at the age of 69, actress Alma Delia Fuentes who's died at the age of 80 and comedian Don Rickles who's died aged 90; Groundling graduate Linnea Quigley described working with Rickles on John Landis' gangland bloodsucker comedy 'Innocent Blood' (1992) as an absolute blast.
Film director Jacques Pinoteau has died aged 93, director Armand Gatti has died aged 93, director Radley Metzger has died aged 88 and director Michele Rosier has died at the age of 86.
Writer, presenter and producer Glenn O'Brien has died aged 70 following a long period of illness. His studied contribution to the emerging stylistics of the punk cultures in lead-off states New York and Ohio - including their varied cinematic forms - is simply immense.
"Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Georgetown University, where he edited the school journal, O'Brien became a member of Warhol's Factory while studying filmmaking at Columbia. In 1970, O'Brien was hired to be an associate editor of Warhol's Interview. After four years at that magazine, O'Brien briefly became Rolling Stone's New York Bureau Chief in 1972 before landing at High Times in 1976, where he served as that publication's "Editor-at-large." I believe I was the first magazine editor to hold that title," O'Brien wrote on his website, noting that he was High Times' editor-in-chief "until fear and paranoia caused me to begin working outside the office." O'Brien was also a member of a punk group called Konelrad, which played at venues like CBGBs at the onset of punk; "Glenn O'Brien's Beat," a column dedicated to punk music, ran from 1978 to 1990 in Interview."
- Edwin Tse, Rolling Stone
Polish optical illusions artist Julian Stanczak has also passed away at the age of 88. Stanczak influenced a number of genre cinema's leading visual stylists including Brian De Palma, Wes Craven and David Lynch.
"After studying art in London, Julian Stanczak immigrated in 1950 to America, where he studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. At Yale University, where he would later receive an M.F.A., Stanczak took classes with Josef Albers, the modernist painter, who taught him about color theory and geometry. Stanczak himself was a prolific teacher. He was a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1964 to 1995; his students included April Gornik and Dana Schutz. Yet even many who didn’t study with him seem to bear his influence, including emerging artists whose digitally minded paintings create jarring juxtapositions between people, grids, and background elements. For Stanczak, his work was always about color and its dramatic effects. He was a formalist at heart—a painter aware of the very mechanics behind his paintings—but one whose work had a surprising emotional undercurrent. “Color is abstract, universal,” he once said."
- Alex Greenberger, Art News
May they rest in peace.
Film director Jacques Pinoteau has died aged 93, director Armand Gatti has died aged 93, director Radley Metzger has died aged 88 and director Michele Rosier has died at the age of 86.
Writer, presenter and producer Glenn O'Brien has died aged 70 following a long period of illness. His studied contribution to the emerging stylistics of the punk cultures in lead-off states New York and Ohio - including their varied cinematic forms - is simply immense.
"Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and a graduate of Georgetown University, where he edited the school journal, O'Brien became a member of Warhol's Factory while studying filmmaking at Columbia. In 1970, O'Brien was hired to be an associate editor of Warhol's Interview. After four years at that magazine, O'Brien briefly became Rolling Stone's New York Bureau Chief in 1972 before landing at High Times in 1976, where he served as that publication's "Editor-at-large." I believe I was the first magazine editor to hold that title," O'Brien wrote on his website, noting that he was High Times' editor-in-chief "until fear and paranoia caused me to begin working outside the office." O'Brien was also a member of a punk group called Konelrad, which played at venues like CBGBs at the onset of punk; "Glenn O'Brien's Beat," a column dedicated to punk music, ran from 1978 to 1990 in Interview."
- Edwin Tse, Rolling Stone
Polish optical illusions artist Julian Stanczak has also passed away at the age of 88. Stanczak influenced a number of genre cinema's leading visual stylists including Brian De Palma, Wes Craven and David Lynch.
"After studying art in London, Julian Stanczak immigrated in 1950 to America, where he studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. At Yale University, where he would later receive an M.F.A., Stanczak took classes with Josef Albers, the modernist painter, who taught him about color theory and geometry. Stanczak himself was a prolific teacher. He was a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1964 to 1995; his students included April Gornik and Dana Schutz. Yet even many who didn’t study with him seem to bear his influence, including emerging artists whose digitally minded paintings create jarring juxtapositions between people, grids, and background elements. For Stanczak, his work was always about color and its dramatic effects. He was a formalist at heart—a painter aware of the very mechanics behind his paintings—but one whose work had a surprising emotional undercurrent. “Color is abstract, universal,” he once said."
- Alex Greenberger, Art News
May they rest in peace.