Ilene Meyer: Paintings, Drawings, Perceptions (Fantasy Art) [Hardcover]

Ilene Meyer (Author), Cathy Fenner (Editor), Arnie Fenner (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Fantasy Art | Publication Date: January 12, 2005

Extraordinarily rich and expressively rendered, Ilene Meyer's oil paintings wrap viewers in the mists and myths of creation, exploring fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes with piercing clarity and passion. As surreal as Picasso or Dali, as evocative as Georgia O'Keeffe, this glossy gallery introduces sci-fi and New Age visualists to the first full-scale retrospective collection of Meyer's work. Invoking themes of ecology, conservation, culture, and civilization, Meyer's paintings pronounce that all existence is interconnected and that all souls are intertwined. Already a cultural sensation in Japan and the subject of numerous articles and interviews and a documentary film, Meyer is perfectly primed to enchant America with her bold, painterly style. This is the first collection of Ilene Meyer paintings to be published in the U.S.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Underwood Books (January 12, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887424792
• ISBN-13: 978-1887424790
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #946,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A diverse bold collection, January 6, 2006

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deLYSH (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ilene Meyer: Paintings, Drawings, Perceptions (Fantasy Art) (Hardcover)

The paintings of Ilene Meyer are boldly coloured, with chequered floors often as soft fluid waves. Most contain the traditional elements found in still life such as flowers and fruit or portraiture and landscape painting, however with a twist. Whilst the vase may be filled with flowers as you would expect, it may sit in a slightly altered almost sci-fi world.

Meyer has some fantastic creatures, my favourite being the Llamiger (cross between a Llama and a Tiger) ad the Zebrocerous (yes, Rhino and Zebra together).

I also love the medusa paintings for her coloured hair, almost ribbon like but with little creatures hidden within.

This book is neary all pictures with a brief introduction and preface, so if you are expecting commentary then you would be disappointed.

As the "search inside this book" function was unavailable, I found pictures of Meyer's work on the internet using an image search prior to purchase.

If you like her artwork, this a fine collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars visual feast, April 2, 2006

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Z Lasu (USA, Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ilene Meyer: Paintings, Drawings, Perceptions (Fantasy Art) (Hardcover)

This book is a visual feast before breakfast. The art is colorful, exuberant, filled with surrealist details. I flip through the pages and I love most of the paintings in the book. A few ones I don't like look like experiments in trying to fit into somebody else's style. Nothing wrong with it. I skip them and go back to the fantasy paintings with a wonderful variety of colors and shapes, various animals ripping a checkered cloth suspended in multidimensional space, dinosaurs and dragons attacking swans, bouquets of flowers suspended in dreamworld's sixth dimension... The story develops, makes some twists, and keeps going, moving into another area of Ilene's dreamworld. The main themes re-emerage. A true artist always goes back to the core of her obsession.
Then I scan quickly thorough the text and I read the paragraph when Ilene talks about how, for a period of time, she had problems with eyesight. Still, she kept painting ferociously, as she says, "large, probably horrible" paintings. Her eyesight eventually got better and she keeps painting very intricate, detailed, magical works, with a other-worldly twist, like she is still able to see what's out there, on the other side that can be only visible when you close your eyes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ilene Meyers art, March 1, 2006

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Gregory A. Collins "codebreaker" (Simi Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ilene Meyer: Paintings, Drawings, Perceptions (Fantasy Art) (Hardcover)

I love this book...I truly enjoy Ilene Meyers work, her style, use of colors and images. Her paintings are fun and I never get tired of enjoying them. If you like fantasy art, then I'm sure you'll enjoy the works of Ilene Meyers.