Jim Warren (artist)
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Jim Warren is a U.S. artist known for audio album and book cover artwork.
He has worked in surrealistic fantasy
since about 1969. A self-taught artist, Jim uses traditional oil paint and brushes on stretched canvas.
In 1981, his work came to national attention when his cover illustration for Bob Seger
's Against the Wind
won Capitol Record's Art Director, Roy Kohara a Grammy Award
for Best Album Package. Beginning in 1985, he illustrated over two hundred book covers for such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Robin Cook and Clive Barker. He also produced album cover illustrations for Prince
and Alice Cooper
, and movie posters for Phantasm, Night of the Living Dead (the remake) Waxworks, and others. His work was also featured on numerous magazine covers such as Twilight Zone and Heavy Metal Magazine.
His 1990 painting, Earth...Love It or Lose It, was featured on posters, magazines, billboards, and t-shirts, became an iconic visual representation for the global environmental movement.
He has collaborated on paintings with marine life artist Wyland
.
His first book, The Art of Jim Warren: An American Original, was published in 1997. His second book, Painted Worlds, was released in 2002. His newest book will be released in late 2009.
Jim is bi-coastal, maintaining studios in Clearwater, Florida
, and Portland, Oregon
.
He has also worked with Disney.
He has worked in surrealistic fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
since about 1969. A self-taught artist, Jim uses traditional oil paint and brushes on stretched canvas.
Early life
He was born in Long Beach, California to Don and Betty Warren and began painting as a child. His choice of an artistic career path was made in high school.In 1981, his work came to national attention when his cover illustration for Bob Seger
Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s...
's Against the Wind
Against the Wind (album)
Against the Wind is the 11th album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his third with The Silver Bullet Band. It was released in 1980 . It is Seger's only Number 1 album to date, spending six weeks atop the Billboard 200, and knocking Pink Floyd's massive-selling The Wall from the top spot...
won Capitol Record's Art Director, Roy Kohara a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Album Package. Beginning in 1985, he illustrated over two hundred book covers for such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Robin Cook and Clive Barker. He also produced album cover illustrations for Prince
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
and Alice Cooper
Raise Your Fist and Yell
Raise Your Fist and Yell is the 17th studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 5th 1987. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can...
, and movie posters for Phantasm, Night of the Living Dead (the remake) Waxworks, and others. His work was also featured on numerous magazine covers such as Twilight Zone and Heavy Metal Magazine.
His 1990 painting, Earth...Love It or Lose It, was featured on posters, magazines, billboards, and t-shirts, became an iconic visual representation for the global environmental movement.
He has collaborated on paintings with marine life artist Wyland
Wyland
Robert Wyland , known simply as Wyland, is an artist best known for painting large, outdoor murals of whales and other ocean life.-Personal life:...
.
His first book, The Art of Jim Warren: An American Original, was published in 1997. His second book, Painted Worlds, was released in 2002. His newest book will be released in late 2009.
Jim is bi-coastal, maintaining studios in Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, US, nearly due west of Tampa and northwest of St. Petersburg. In the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and in the east lies Tampa Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 108,787. It is the county seat of...
, and Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
.
He has also worked with Disney.
Paintings
- Portraits of Juliette LewisJuliette LewisJuliette Lewis is an American actress and musician. She gained international fame for her role in the 1991 thriller Cape Fear for which she was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress...
(Vacation, Cape Fear) Marine life artist Wyland, and Michael Parnell (CEO of Oakley sunglasses), among others. - Warren/Disney collaboration paintings released as fine art prints in 2004
- Collaboration with artist Michael Godard to combine his horses and romance themes with Godard’s mischievous olive people in 2009.
- Portraits of John Stamos unveiled at Fame Wall, NYC in 2009.
- Portraits of the Beach Boys 50th Anniversary unveiled at Fame Wall, Hollywood, Ca Sept 23, 2010
- Portraits of Kristen Chenoworth and also Sean Hayes (both in "Promises, Promises" on Broadway will be unveiled at Fame Wall in NYC some time in 2010.
- In 2011, the Jim Warren painting, "Sexual Explosion," once banned from public exhibition during the seventies, was named the "Most Famous Nude Painting" since the famous nudes of Picasso, Dali and Modigliani.
- In 2011, "Sexual Explosion," the famous Jim Warren nude masterwork, placed #4 in "Top 10 Most Famous Paintings in the Art World," based on Google Images information and research.
Books
- The Art of Jim Warren: An American Original Art Lover Products, 1997. ISBN 978-0965877503.
- Painted Worlds, 2002, Paper TigerPaper Tiger BooksPaper Tiger is a publishing house started in 1976 by Martyn and Roger Dean, on the back of their success at publishing Dean's Views graphic album under sister imprint Dragon's Dream...