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Basil Gogos (1929 - 2017) was active/lived in New York, District Of Columbia. Basil Gogos is known for Magazine illustration, movie and stage play monster visages, painting.
"Basil Gogos, Who? Painted Monsters? With Love, Dies at 88," By Richard Sandomir, Sept. 26, 2017, Obituary,
The New York Times.
Basil Gogos, who painted penetrating and chilling color portraits of movie monsters like Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Phantom of the Opera, and imbued Frankenstein’s monster with notable compassion, died on Sept. 13 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 88.
Linda Touby, his wife and only immediate survivor, said the cause was probably a coronary.
Mr. Gogos produced dozens of covers for the horror magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland over more than 20 years. Many of them looked as if Mr. Gogos had invited the monsters into his studio, where he meticulously lighted them and bathed them in brilliant hues.
In Mr. Gogos’s 1969 portrait of Frankenstein’s monster, as played by Boris Karloff, his eyes are downcast, his demeanor is sorrowful. The background is dramatically illuminated by a single glowing candle. The menace that Mr. Gogo ...
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Walter Popp
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Franco Accornero
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Alfred Leslie Buell
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Norm Eastman
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Basil Gogos
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Art Method
Advertising Art
Easel Painting
Illustration, Illustrator
Magazine Illustration
Poster Art, Poster Design
Art Media
Acrylic Paint
Casein
Charcoal
Gouache
Mixed Media, Multi Media
Oil Paint
Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Realist, Representational, Naturalist
Art Subject
Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Pin-Ups, Pin-Up Girls
Portraits, Portraiture
Art Teacher
Frank Reilly
Art School
Art Students League of New York, Student
School of Visual Arts, New York, Student
Chronology
Early 20th Century Before 1950
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