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Enter a world
of Beauty and Imagination...
INDEX of GALLERIES ~
LINKS to LARGER ART
The Realistic and Fantastic Art Galleries of Contemporary American
Illustrator Howard David Johnson
Click on
these Fun Educational
Realistic Art Gallery link icons for Two-fisted Tales of VALOR
&
Frontline Combat featuring Legendary Warriors of History, Knights and
ladies of
Arthurian Legend, Celtic, Nordic, Asian and Olympian gods &
monsters,
unicorns, dragons, fairies... and more!
All these pieces of art and the
text are legally copyrighted and were registered with the U.S.
Library of Congress Office of Copyright by the author, Howard David
Johnson All rights reserved worldwide. Permission for many academic or
non-commercial uses is freely and legally available by simply
contacting the author via e-mail or visiting www.howarddavidjohnson.com/permission.htm
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Who is American Illustrator
Howard David Johnson?
In David's invitation to the
Florence Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition, (a partner in the United
Nations' Dialog among Nations), UN Secretary General Kofi Anon
wrote: "Artists have a special role to play in the global struggle
for peace. At their best, artists speak not only to people; they speak
for them. Art is a weapon against ignorance and hatred and an agent of
public awareness... Art opens new doors for learning, understanding,
and peace among nations."
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Howard David Johnson
is a contemporary visual artist and photographer with a background in
the natural sciences and history. He works in a wide variety of media
ranging from traditional oils, pastels and others to cutting edge
digital media. After a lifetime of drawing and painting, Howard David
Johnson's Traditional Realistic Art was exhibited in the British Museum
in London in 1996, ( 3 years before he got his first computer ) as well
as numerous American ones since, such as the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. His illustrations have appeared in every major bookstore and
gameshop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts
around the world.
Some of his more
prestigious clients have included the National Geographic Society, the
University of Texas, the History Book of the Month Club, PBS TV,
Adobe Photoshop Auto FX, and Paramount
Studios. Licenses to print his existing work
are available at surprisingly affordable prices. Oil Paintings, Colored
pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, and Digital art can also be commissioned
for select projects - Click on commission new art below... Working in a variety of
traditional and cutting edge digital media he offers his customers a
variety of options and more than thirty years of experience. As a
commercial illustrator HDJ has not only used the computer but has been
involved in the development of imaging software. On his existing
works license offers start as low as $99.
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info@howarddavidjohnson.com
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business, letters, & links are always welcome.
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This
Art Gallery has been
honored by more than 35,000,000 Unique Visitors
from the Four
Corners of the Earth
My
Friends from around the world thus far :
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Ireland, Germany,
France, Monaco, Andorra,
Italy, The Vatican City State, Greece,
Macedonia, Cyprus, Turkey, Belgium,
Denmark, The Faroe Islands, Greenland,
Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Croatia, The Czech
Republic, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Luxembourg, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Austria,
Romania, Spain, The Russian Federation,
Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova,
Malta, Iceland, Finland, Norway,
Netherlands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein,
Sweden, Portugal, Albania, Armenia, Georgia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Gibraltar,
Israel, Palestinian Territories, Egypt,
Libya, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Saudi Arabia,
Oman, The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait,
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Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco,
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Liberia, The
Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Kenya,
Angola, Ghana, The Ivory Coast,
Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudan,
Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya,
Eritrea, Tanzania, Botswana, Malawi,
Senegal, Djibouti, Cameroon, Chad,
Gambia, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, South
Africa,Viet Nam, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong
Kong, Macau, Mongolia, Mauritius, Singapore,
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Macau,
Malaysia, Taiwan, Nuie, New Zealand,
Fiji,
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"King Arthur and the Holy Grail
"MCMXCVI
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The
Cook Islands, New Caledonia,
Vanuatu, American Samoa, Australia, Micronesia,
Polynesia, Papua
New Guinea, The Heard and McDonald Islands, The
Philippines, Guam,
Palau, Cocos Island, The Kingdom of Tonga,
Malaysia, Brunei
Darussalem, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Bhutan, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka, Chagos Islands, The Republic of Maldives,
Turkmenistan,
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Indonesia,
Chile, Argentina,
Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Aruba,
Venezuela, Bolivia,
Suriname, Guyana, Aruba, The Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Costa
Rica, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua
and Barbuda,
Barbados, The Virgin Islands, The Netherlands
Antilles, Panama,
Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada, Ecuador, Belize,
Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominica,
Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cayman
Islands, Anguilla, The
Bahamas, Honduras, Mexico, and my
home, The Great Free State of
Idaho... (USA)
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your home is not listed here please
e-mail and tell us where you're from...
info@howarddavidjohnson.com
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Art
tradition and etiquette suggest the artists who have been most
influential
should be mentioned at
exhibits; these original new pieces shown in this exhibit take their
inspiration
in part from the paintings of Waterhouse, Alma-Tadema, Church, Moreau,
Bouguereau, Leighton, Ingres, Moore, Parrish, Rackham and others. Most
of my sources are changed so much they are impossible to detect, but
sometimes I
make it obvious to pay homage.
Where
would Walt Disney be without the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian
Anderson, Victor
Hugo and so many others? Where would Aaron Copeland have been without
American
folk music? Thomas Nast's Santa Claus without traditional images of
Father
Christmas? Picasso without African art? These are artists
who made
names for themselves and even fortunes through Public Domain
appropriation, one
and all. Beethoven did "variations on a theme" with the works of
Mozart for the same reasons I have done mine with Waterhouse and
others- to
learn and give homage to the artists who most inspired me.
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