The Art Of Tennessee Loveless: The Mickey Mouse TEN x TEN x TEN Contemporary Pop Art Series

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Tennessee Loveless - a Los Angeles-based contemporary pop artist - used bold colors and patterns to create a series of a hundred detailed Mickey Mouse paintings on 10 x 10 canvas. This deluxe art book showcases the beautiful art as well as explores the fascinating world of the artist behind it. Tennessee creates a poetic irony when one considers the fact that he is almost completely colorblind. Despite many obstacles throughout his life and career, he has persevered in pursuing his art. He is driven by his passion for painting people and iconic fictional characters in a way that strikes an emotional and nostalgic connection through the power of color.

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PRAISE FOR THE ART OF TENNESSEE LOVELESS"As an artist, Loveless pays homage to a range of styles from Mehandi, a form or Indian sin decoration, to a collection of stamps, all featuring Mickey Mouse prominently as the centerpiece of the creation. He also uses this forum to touch on important social issues including the impact of capitalism on our imagination."--Advocate
PRAISE FOR THE ART OF TENNESSEE LOVELESS"What makes Loveless' achievement so remarkable is that the artist is severely colourblind and only understands colour from a formulaic concept based on color theory as opposed to the actual colours themselves. As this deluxe volume makes clear, Tennessee Loveless--despite the numerous obstacles he has had to overcome in his life and career--has heroically pursued his art, motivated by a passion for painting people and fictional characters such as the Disney Mouse in a ways that make a strong connection with our nostalgic memories using the power of colours unseen by the artist who painted them. You may feel that 100 Mickey Mice is a few dozen more than you truly need, but the cumulative effect of this extraordinary array of paintings--many of them with an ironic tip of the mouse-ears to, among others, those celebrated Mickey-takers Andy Warhol and Keith Haring--is an unquestioned artistic tour de force."--Brian Sibley, writer, broadcaster, and Disney scholar

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David A. Bossert is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, and author. He is a thirty-two-year veteran of The Walt Disney Company and is an independent producer and creative director. Dave is considered an authority and expert on Disney animation and history. He co-authored Disney Animated, which was named iPad App of 2013 by Apple and won a prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. He is also the author of Remembering Roy E. Disney: Memories and Photos of a Storied Life; An Animator's Gallery: Eric Goldberg Draws the Disney Characters; and Dali and Disney: Destino-The Story, Artwork, and Friendship Behind the Legendary Film; and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons. You can connect with Dave on social media and/or at www.davidbossert.com.