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Willi Bloess is the author of Milestones of Art: Salvador Dali: The Paranoia-Method (2017), Milestones of Art: Vincent Van Gogh: The Raven Hunt (2017), Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop Art (2015), Milestones of Art: The Collection (2015), Milestones of Art: Andy Warhol: The Factory (2015) and , Milestones of Art: Frida Kahlo: Viva Mexico (2015).

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Milestones of Art: Salvador Dali: The Paranoia-Method

release date: Oct 26, 2017
Milestones of Art: Salvador Dali: The Paranoia-Method
His whole life long the surrealistic painter Dali is obsessed to come to terms with three key moments of his childhood in Spain: 1. the fear that in his parents eyes he is only a rebirth of the dead first son, 2. The shocking effect that the pictures of venereal diseases discovered in his father's library have had on him and 3. the betrayal of his father, whom he found in bed with his mother's sister. His "floating clocksÓgain worldwide famousness and become a symbol for a reality loosing control.

Milestones of Art: Vincent Van Gogh: The Raven Hunt

release date: Oct 26, 2017
Milestones of Art: Vincent Van Gogh: The Raven Hunt
Vincent van Gogh becomes only 37 years old. Only the last 10 years of his life he is engaged in painting. Restlessly and exhausting he travels through the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and France. Together with his colleagues Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin he is regarded today as one of the most important artists of the expressionism movement. This comic guide, written and drawn by Willi Bloss, catches the main marks of the master's life and refers optically to the unerring style that van Gogh used for his sketches."

Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop Art

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Milestones of Art: Keith Haring: Next Stop Art
At the end of the 1970s, Keith Haring decorates the walls of the subway tunnels in New York with simple, two-dimensional characters. His tag is "The Radiant Child.” In contrast to the graffiti scene, which consists of little more than repetitions of such tags, Keith develops a diverse language of symbols. They seem to be mystic messages. In 1990 Haring dies, aged 31, from AIDS.

Milestones of Art: The Collection

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Milestones of Art: The Collection
A new partnership between comic-book publisher and German artist Willi Bloess look to fuse the two worlds with a series of biography comics featuring the lives and legacies of some of Western Civilizations most influential artists featuring Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. The series is titled "The Milestones of Art."

Milestones of Art: Andy Warhol: The Factory

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Milestones of Art: Andy Warhol: The Factory
In 1961, Andy Warhol resolved to become the chronicler of the affluent society. His series of consumption products is heralded by hand-painted dollar bills, coke bottles, and the 32 varieties of Campbell's soup cans. In 1968 he is shot down. The doctors declare him clinically dead. But Andy remains productive for nearly 20 years more. He dies in 1987. Author Willi Bloess asked Annette Schulze-Kremer to draw this comic biography as a reference to the 1960 years and to Mort Drucker, one of their favorites from the magazine MAD.

Milestones of Art: Frida Kahlo: Viva Mexico

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Milestones of Art: Frida Kahlo: Viva Mexico
Frida Kahlo called herself "Daughter of the Mexican Revolution.” At the age of 18 she had a terrible traffic accident with the result of great pains for the remaining 28 years of her life. She created around 70 self-portraits. She painted when she felt sick and had to lay in bed. When she felt good, she preferred to live an exciting life. But while her husband, Diego Riviera, amidst the Mexican macho society, could live his immorality in public, she had to arrange her dates with other men covertly.
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