![]() Also a delight are ragged, rather homemade-looking bootleg versions of “Star Wars” toys. The elaborate insignia and careful renderings of characters or scenes reflect the fans’ wholehearted ardor for the films. More primitive, yet equally memorable, is a case spotlighting patches made by assorted “Star Wars” fan clubs. Simmons’ images of merchandise manufactured in connection with the series, including action figures from “Return of the Jedi” (1983) the pictures, found in materials promoting the toys, have an ’80s-era sheen that is wonderfully nostalgic. ![]() Other pieces provide blasts from the past, including cartoonist Russ Manning’s rich, inky panels for the “Star Wars” comic strip that appeared from 1979 to 1984 and photographer Kim D.M. The tabloid-style piece has a background made up of headlines related to the film franchise (“The Greatest Space-Fantasy Film Of All!”). ![]() Fisher is pictured as she appeared in “The Force Awakens” surrounded by likenesses of her from earlier installments of the series.Ĭurrent CCAD instructor Uko Smith elegantly evokes the Dark Side with a regal rendering of Darth Vader posing with a red light saber, while Brian Ewing, in “The Kiss (Some Like It Hoth”), offers Leia and Han Solo in an embrace. Among Corroney’s most memorable works are several imposing, poster-style depictions of storm troopers, as well as a loving homage to the late actress Carrie Fisher, who portrayed the character Princess Leia. Most of the art, however, is friendly rather than fierce.įormer Columbus College of Art & Design instructor Joe Corroney is represented with a range of pieces, beginning with a sketch from childhood of Darth Vader and continuing with his mature work - namely, a series of beautifully rendered lithographs. More sharply satirical is an edition of the late Richard Thompson’s strip, Richard’s Poor Almanac, which imagines a version of “Revenge of the Sith” (2005) in which the famously detested Jar Jar Binks lends his inscrutable dialogue to “an interminable filibuster speech before the Imperial Senate.” Thompson also imagines an absurdly gentle conclusion to the film in which Darth Vader and Princess Amidala fuss over their offspring. Even better is a panel in which a woman, child and dark-cloaked figure stand in line for “The Last Jedi” (2017) as the word balloon from the woman buying tickets explains, they represent “one adult, one child and one fanatic.” The works included in the show run the gamut from fan art featuring one-of-a-kind interpretations of familiar characters to editorial cartoons casting an eye towards “Star Wars” as a pop-culture phenomenon.īelonging to the latter category are cartoons by former Dispatch political cartoonist Jeff Stahler, including a panel in which a middle-aged man marks the calendar not for Christmas but for the release of “The Force Awakens” (2015). 19 at the Columbus Museum of Art - offers art fashioned in response to, or in connection with, the films that got their start in 1977. ![]() “The Force of Fandom” - a fun, fascinating exhibit on view through Aug. “Solo: A Star Wars Story” opened to undistinguished reviews last month, as well as unexceptional box office returns - at least, for a film in the legendary George Lucas-instigated series.īut that's likely to mean little to the eclectic mix of professional and amateur artists behind a new exhibit of "Star Wars" art and a target audience who never seem to tire of all things related to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. ![]()
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