George C. Clark
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist and Craftsperson |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | +++Website:www.georgecclarkartist.com+++Traveler's Sketchbook Blog: travelerssketchbook.blogspot.com+++Email: george.clark3092@yahoo.com |
| Interests | Art by Giambattista Tiepolo, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Goya, Anders Zorn, Lovis Corinth, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, Schiele, Norman Lindsay, George Wunder, Carl Barks, Robert Crumb, Moebius/Jean Giraud, Guido Crepax, Georges Pichard, Jacques Tardi, Milo Manara, Bill Watterson, David Hockney, Horst Janssen, Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, David Levine, Paul Hogarth, Rustic design by Daniel Mack and Tor Faegre |
| Favorite movies | The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, Scarlet Empress, Tarzan And His Mate, The General Died At Dawn, Duck Soup, Sons Of The Desert, A Night At The Opera, Charlie Chan At The Opera, What's Opera Doc, Captain Blood, Knight Without Armor, Lost Horizon, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Only Angels Have Wings, Gunga Din, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, most of John Ford, The Wizard Of Oz, The Thief Of Bagdad (1940), Sullivan's Travels, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Munchausen (1943), Double Indemnity, I Know Where I'm Going, The Big Sleep, Unfaithfully Yours (1948), most of Hitchcock, all of Welles, The Third Man, Rififi, Bob Le Flambeur, The Lavender Hill Mob, Love In The Afternoon, The Apartment, The Ipcress File, Lawrence of Arabia, Kubrick's Lolita, The Sweet Smell Of Success, Bonny And Clyde, Our Man In Havana, Topkapi, The Manchurian Candidate, A Hard Day's Night, Amarcord, most of Just Jaeckin, early Borowczyk, some Jean Rollin, The Christmas Story, most of Woody Allen, 16 Candles, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, Time Bandits, The Producers, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, Fitzcarraldo, Dangerous Liaisons (all 3: Vadim/Frears/Forman), Fargo, Almost Famous, The Ninth Gate, The Lives Of Others, Pride And Prejudice (all 5), BBC Sherlock |
| Favorite music | Vivaldi, Mozart, Donizetti, Strauss (Johan Jr Richard & Oscar), Lehar, Romberg, Friml, Weill, Gershwin, Big Band, Ellington, Waxman, Korngold, Leroy Anderson, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Maurice Jarre, Nino Rota |
| Favorite books | The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, The Trask translation of Casanova, Life on the Mississippi, Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man, The Adventures of King Pausole, The Lord Peter Whimsey books, Greene's This Gun For Hire, The Maltese Falcon, everything by Raymond Chandler, everything by Eric Ambler, Catcher in the Rye, all of Ross McDonald's Lew Archer books, Lolita, the Flashman Papers, everything by Len Deighton, Brothers In Arms by Hans Helmut Kirst, Cat And Mouse and The Tin Drum by Grass, Greene's Travels With My Aunt, The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, most of Bill Bryson, most of Roald Dahl, most of Paul Theroux, everything by Alan Furst, the Bernie Gunther books by Phillip Kerr, Inspector Rebus books by Ian Rankin, Paul Hogarth's books about his art, graphic novels and art books featuring the work of the artists listed under "interests" |