Exhibition Notes: Old-fashioned Fairy Tale Arr
(The Exhibition Notes I wrote for my second solo exhibit at The Crucible Gallery in 2001) Essay 48. OLD-FASHIONED FAIRYTALE ART ARNEL MIRASOL's second solo show, titled "Old-fashioned Fairy Tale Art", is on view from September 8 to 30 at the Crucible Gallery. Featured are the eleven illustrations for the picture book "Once Upon a Time". Published by Tahanan Books for Young Readers, the book is a compilation of ten Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale classics as retold by Fran Ng. Included, among others, are such timeless stories like the "Little Mermaid", "The Wild Swans", "Thumbelina", and "The Nightingale". Completed after fourteen months of painstaking work, the illustrations were created the old-fashioned way, so to speak, without the artist resorting to such technical aids as airbrush and computer software. Noticeable is the quaint hyperrealist style of the artworks, which separate them further from the slew of illu...