Eric Fortune: A Want to Believe
Posted by E. G. Gauger
Eric Fortune’s introspective paintings make me a touch melancholy. Part of that is the content: iconic girls in balletic poses with implied, sad goals, rendered with milky color. But it is also the very existence of such a person as Mr. Fortune, who is 32 years old and until a few days ago, totally unknown to me. Bratty yahoos like the kid who recently vomited on a Mondrian (Google it; I refuse to give that bore any more linkage) are more widely recognized as “artists” than the ramen-supping drudges who can pluck scenes like this from their live, nude brains. On demand, even. As if function, skill, and work ethic were somehow antithesis to appreciation.
But I am not yet bitter. Merely tangy.
Eric Fortune.com [Artist's site]
Eric Fortune’s Blog [Blogspot]
Categories: Art, Illustration, Nymphets
Posted at 2:52 pm on December 16, 2008
4 Comments -
Ah, but we magic players know him well, for his Mulldrifter and Scion of Oona and Winnower Patrol.
Sometimes I think that Wizards of the Coast single-handedly supports beautiful fantasy painting.
Comment by ignotus — December 16, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Not being a gaming geek, his work is new to me.
New and welcome.
…thank-you, Eliza.
Comment by k paul blume — December 16, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Tangy. Ha.
Comment by V. Blame — December 16, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
…and that fraud, Jackson Pollock.
Comment by Mogo The Mugger — December 19, 2008 @ 4:39 am