| Described as the "unknown creative granddaddy" of atomic age record-album covers with "jagged, volatile images", Jim Flora did work in the 1940s and 1950s that remains a major influence on today's CD cover artists. Flora worked for Columbia and RCE where his characteristic illustrations were described by Ben Sisario in "The New York Times" as "grotesque yet comic Picasso-like figures rendered in a cartoonish, two-dimensional panic. They set a standard of fresh design, bringing Surrealism and geo (showing 500 of 1675 characters). |
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