Kinuko craft biography of martin
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Entry updated 9 October 2023.
Kinuko craft biography of martin
Tagged: Artist.
(1940- ) American artist, born in Japan. After receiving a BFA from a prestigious Japanese art school, she moved to America to obtain further training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, remaining in the city first to work for several studios, and then to launch a career as a freelance professional in 1970.
She initially provided her distinctive artwork for diverse publications, including magazines like Time, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic, but she came to focus more on children's books and book covers after 1980.
Craft is noted for her extraordinarily intricate and boldly coloured paintings, almost entirely featured on Fantasy novels; typical covers foreground a beautiful woman against an elaborate, colourful background.
Even Craft's occasional covers for sf novels, like Patricia A McKillip's Moon-Flash (1985), have the ambience of fantasy, as that cover shows a young woman ro