Name of the artist who draws in pastels or watercolor, pictures of greek paradises? Popular during hippie era.
The pictures are usually of beautiful greek women in paradise lounging on marble benches beneath greacian pillars. His work may have been in pastels but the colors are very soft and peaceful. I am at a loss as to what his name is and I need it for a novel I am writing. Thank you.
My friend, you are talking about a turn of the century American artist named Maxfield Parrish. He painted oils on canvas and worked with watercolor to do illustrations for magazines. It was his magazine illustrations that brought him fame starting in the 1920s. He was extremely popular to the 'Flappers' from the Roaring 20s. Then the counter-culture hippies re-discovered him and his art and made it popular again. The cartoonist who created 'Bloom County' further increased the new interest in Parrish's artwork by using it as backdrops for the dream fantasies of Opus.
Here are some links that should help you:
http://www.parrish-house.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxfield_Parrish
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/parrish.htm
(The first of the faux Greek paintings he did was called 'Daybreak' and it became so popular, so famous during it's time that thousands of prints were made of it.)
Here is a Bloom County version of a Parrish painting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Penguin_dreams_and_stranger_things.jpg
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