“Stan Lee applauds a TV show you may have missed,” says Jeffrey
Ressner in USA Weekend for December
25-27. He’s touting the PBS documentary series “Art:21,” which focuses minutely
on the creative processes of 14 artists from around the world. Says Lee: “When
I started in the 1940s, an ‘artist’ had a paintbrush and stood in front of a
canvas. But Jeff Koons, one of the artists featured here, is more like a movie
director or a comic book editor: he has an entire team of craftsmen following
his vision as he creates these huge, colorful figures and paintings. It’s not
the usual conception of an artist, but the finished product is what he had
imagined, not the other people. ... It’s fascinating to watch these artists,
who are all so different, yet so creative. I’m more familiar with dramatic
hyper-realism — artwork that tells a story with as much excitement as possible.
‘Art:21' is really about personal expression.” The legendary Lee turned 87 on
Monday, December 28; his POW! Entertainment recently launched a digital comic
book called Time Jumper.
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