Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno [Paperback]

Wayne Barlowe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 10, 2001

With a verisimilitude Hieronymus Bosch would have admired, Wayne Barlowe renders his latest visual nightmare in a startling yet classic style. Fifteen new paintings, along with numerous drawings, portray a world of warriors, hellish beasts, and infernal landscapes. With its heavy stock, embossed cover, and button-tie closure, this book resembles an authentic portfolio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 30 pages
• Publisher: Morpheus International (July 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883398509
• ISBN-13: 978-1883398507
• Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 12 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #65 in Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Conceptual

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and haunting, January 28, 2003

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M. Karapcik "Mike" (Temple Terrace, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno (Paperback)

First off, Barlowe is an amazingly talented artist, and anything he does is worth owning.
Second, this book is an excellent continuation of "Inferno". If you do not own "Inferno", this can be read alone. However, the two are part of the same vision of Hell.
Third, while this book has slightly less content than "Inferno", it's still excellent. The artwork is inspired and haunting. The demons have an organic feel that makes them look real. They also have the remnants of their angelic heritage. Whereas "Inferno" is Barlowe's travels through Hell, focusing on people, places, and "beings", this book focuses on beings in the hierarchy of Hell, from officers to demons to fallen souls.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Regards to Brushfire...., June 28, 2002

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This review is from: Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno (Paperback)

As my first thought, the point of view of Brushfire was much different from that of Inferno. This time it is written as if Barlowe were actually in Hell while painting his various subjects. Although this can be interesting, the perspective sometimes leaves out alot of information about the demons major and minor, focusing more on what he was thinking and what was happening around him at the time he was painting.
Brushfire mananages to have very visually rewarding illustrations. Pictures of "posing subjects" tend to be more photographic, while pictures outdoors are usually more like the ones from Inferno. However, I feel it could have incorporated more of the titanic scale so ubiquitous in Inferno. This effect gives Barlowe's Hell a very supernatural feel, one that separates his vision from that of other's.
As a humorous ending note, there is a little "insider joke" in the book. One of the pictures is of Morphaiis, a demon that Barlowe befriends on his visit to Hell. What makes it funny is that the painting is of James Cowan, Barlowe's friend and book publisher (who just happens to work for Morpheus International.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Barlowe's Sketches of the Infernal, June 18, 2007

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Caesar M. Warrington (Lansdowne, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno (Paperback)

Artist Wayne Barlowe is simply brilliant. With this book and its predecessor, INFERNO, Barlowe gives illustration to that most dreaded place still to linger in the minds and consciences of many a man and woman: Hell.

Barlowe's literally tortured landscape is one of the few truly original and imaginative renderings of the Demonic realm that I've seen or read in quite a while.

Barlowe's Inferno with its demonic overlords, ruling from citadels built with the crushed souls of condemned humanity over a dimension of pain and humiliation is repugnant yet fascinating.