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ILLUMINA ART JEAN PIERRE TARGETE

ILLUMINA ART JEAN PIERRE TARGETE

by Jean Marie Ward (Editor), Jean Pierre Targete (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

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Synopsis

Illumina, the Art of Jean Pierre Targete spotlights over 100 paintings, sketches and never-before seen conceptual drawings by one of science fiction and fantasy's most versatile young artists. Targete's three-dimensional rendering, his expressionistic lighting and magician's ability to lead the eye grant an impossible realism to speculative fiction's most outre subjects. Illumina will delight science fiction and fantasy fans with images of beauties and barbarians, pistol-packing aliens, racing starfighters, maniacal mages and dragons that burn the very air they breathe. At the same time, mystery and romance readers may find themselves surprised by Targete's contributions to their favourite genre.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 112
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Paper Tiger
Published: 28 Jun 2003
ISBN 10: 1843400715
ISBN 13: 9781843400714

Media Reviews
That man can draw magic and make you believe, author Patricia Briggs says of Jean Pierre Targete. Illumina explores the work of this talented Miami-based artist, who has established himself as one of the most versatile new stars in the fantasy/science fiction firmament. Building on his skill at rendering a subject in almost microscopic detail, Targete grounds images of the impossible in the mundane details of the real world: the texture of a granite boulder, the liquid sheen of a serpent's eye, the weight of a drawn sword. At the sametime, he uses his understanding of the emotive value of light and abstraction to create covers that do more than represent a novel; they tell the story. Illumina follows Targete's early development as an artist and presents more than 100 of his most important paintings, including the Chesley Award-winning The Circle at Center and his paintings for the new Thieves World and Planet of the Apes series. In addition, he discusses the techniques he uses to capture the essence of a story in paint.
Author Bio
Jean Pierre Targete is one of science fiction and fantasy's most sought after series artists, famous for his visual storytelling gifts and flexible style. His paintings grace collectible plates, comic book cards and roleplaying games as well as innumerable covers for science fiction, fantasy, mystery and romance novels. In 2001, his cover painting for Douglas Niles' The Circle at Center won the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration (Paperback Book). Jean Marie Ward is the editor of Crescent Blues, an online magazine covering fiction, art and entertainment. Over the course of her writing carcer, her byline has appeared in everything from daily newspapers to Navy accounting journals, Paper Tiger's in-house newsletter and Science Fiction Weekly to Web-based fiction magazines. In 2003, her short story, Most Dead Bodies in a Confined Space, will appear in the anthology Strange Pleasures 2, edited by John Grant and Dave Hutchinson.