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Summary: Must have book!!!
Review: A glorious compilation of Mark Ryden's work. Includes beautiful one to a page prints of his best paintings, drawings and photos of the things that inspire him. A virtual feast for your eyes! Mark Ryden is definitely a master artist for our age. His paintings are intricate and surreal, seeming to pull the dreamworld into the real world and representing it in such a way that is both charming and inexplicably bizarre. It is like stepping from the innocence of your childhood and finding yourself in an imaginary land where cute bunnies butcher meat and angelic children with luminous eyes hold the hand of a miniature Abe Lincoln and seem to say "this is normal".
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Summary: Anima Mundi by Mark Ryden
Review: Beautifully produced full color book covering Mark Ryden's illustration and painting career. Cover title design printed in gold foil. Published in 2001, this book was limited to an edition of just 10,000 copies and is already out-of-print and a collector's item on the secondary market. Word has it that book distributors had sold out of this in just 1 month. This item is not to be missed by Mark Ryden fans and collectors. Even scarcer than Anima Mundi was the release of the book BUNNIES AND BEES published in December of 2001 to coincide with the exhibit of the same name. This was published in a beautiful large format, 9 x 12, 50 pages, and contains Mark Ryden's work done after Anima Mundi making it an essential Ryden item. This was limited to just 8,000 copies. The paintings in this book are perhaps the best yet from Mark Ryden. For the Ryden art collector, there's also the limited edition boxed set of the Anima Mundi book. Limited to just 500 sets, this contains the Anima Mundi book signed and numbered by Mark Ryden on a special limitation page not found in the normal edition; a signed and numbered giclee print titled "Sick Girl" which is reproduced in the book; an Anima Mundi bookmark, all packaged in a beautiful fabric box.
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Summary: Awe Inspiring
Review: I have owned Mark Ryden's Anima Mundi for quite some time now and never tire of looking through it and admiring the masterpieces inside. In fact, it seems like I discover new and amazing details each time I look through it! Mark Ryden is truly an awe inspiring artist and Anima Mundi contains some of his better known works. If you get the chance to view a copy of this book, take it! I can almost guarantee that you'll enjoy it.
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Summary: He's a real funny guy.
Review: I like Marky. I think he do good art. His art showed he is a smart guy. He draw funny pictures. I like him a lot. His art shows a lot of love and good things. I really like that. This book is full of pretty art. I tell all my friends about it.
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Summary: Eye Candy
Review: I love this book,very inspiring,its done well,with such a limited printing it will skyrocket in value!later editions with possibly a different title,you decide where this one will go?!To me mark's work looks like old classic cigar labels with babies n' strange things..there are some great artists out there,mark is one the best!I am so happy I have a copy,he hangs out with some of my all-time hero's, one-RINGO STARR!!hats off to last gasp also!great job...
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Summary: intriguing work, irritating rarity
Review: on a purely sensual level, it's hard not to be won over by mark ryden. he knows his way around the oil paints, and he's got style; he saturates his scenes in a soft hazy jurassic atmosphere suggestive of the nascent dreamlands of little golden books. strange juxtapositions of quaint and curious objects compell one's attention. but that's basically all there is to it: just a superficial hotch-pot of bunnies and bees and meat. when you read his (dare i say) rather pompous explanations of his pictures, in which he tries to apply deep metaphysical meaning to the bunnies and bees and meat, it's almost embarrassing. he'd be better off just saying "here it is, it's deliberately weird, enjoy its deliberate weirdness," rather than carefully explaining how his bunnies are cute and fuzzy allegories for transcendant qabalistic mysteries. the other thing is the fact that this is yet another art book deliberately released in a limited edition, so that anybody interested in his work has to go pay seven times its value on internet auctions to land a copy. i find that really irritating. i mean, there was a "deluxe" edition - why couldn't that have been the ridiculously limited and overpriced version, and then have the scaled-down version released in an edition large enough to meet the obvious demand? why no reprints? does mark not want my money? ok, i'm done now.
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Summary: Anima Mundi by Mark Ryden
Review: This book is a surreal adventure....Ryden though the looking glass. His brilliant application of color and light, combined with sweet but often twisted themes, set the mood in his paintings. Whether you like it or not, you just can't stop looking. A real magical mystery tour of artworks by a truely gifted artist.
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Summary: *It deserves 10 stars*
Review: This book is so wonderful! I have been a huge Mark Ryden enthusiast for several years now, and anxiously awaited the release of this book. It is everything I hoped it would be and more. Although there are *only* a few paintings missing from this masterpiece,there are many I have never seen before. They are all nicely put in chronological order as well. It even includes some sketches and pencil drawings. I would highly highly recommend this to anyone. He even already has another book already coming out called "Bunnies and Bees". Very spectacular.
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Summary: A must have art book
Review: This is a great introduction to a visually arresting artist. If you like Juxtapoz type stuff, you'll love this book. But don't pay the crazy prices sellers are asking on ebay for this baby (I mean, they did print 10,000 of 'em - so how rare can it be?!?) but instead wait for the second printing which is suppose to be in the works.
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Summary: Ryden makes my head spin and the world turn
Review: This is the book so many Ryden fans have been wishing for! Perhaps it my affection for big-headed children or otherworldy pink skies that makes Ryden's work so wonderful to behold. His art transports me back to my childhood that was filled with smiling rubber animals, Barbies and the Colonel's chicken. I can't walk through the meat department of Safeway without thinking of Mark Ryden and grinning to myself. Even his monsters, mutants and oversized insects are as benign and charming as his portraits of Lincoln. It is a magical yet vaguely disturbing world Mark Ryden brings to life, full of bees, bunnies, his son Jasper and a dog named Jesus. Mark Ryden's work has appeared on the covers of Communication Arts, Juxtapoz art magazine and Rolling Stone. His art is currently on display at the Earl McGrath Gallery in NYC. ...
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