The Leveret: The Art of Stefano Junior

Saturday, October 17, 2020

The Art of Stefano Junior

Notes Stefano Junior's official website:

Stefano Junior, is a fine artist and illustrator concentrating on cartooning and sequential art. He spent five years working in the publishing at Marvel Entertainment specifically working with collected and masterworks editions. He is drawn to the “transformative abilities of superheroes who live in a version of the real world, in which they are able to access potential which makes them better than they are. In that process, they benefit those that are around them.”

Stefano received his early training at the Ducret School of Arts as a youth and is an alum of the Parson’s School of Design with a certificate in Fine Arts. Currently he is completing his BFA in Cartooning at the School of Visual Arts. He teaches young adults the principles of cartooning at the Farmstead Arts Center. He also received sculpture training at the Art Students’ League in New Yotk and is a musician, performing as front man and songwriter for the band STEFANO and the TRUTH.

Related Off-site Link: Stefano Junior's Official Website

See also: The Art of Saul Lyons | Alexis Vera | Mauna Nada | Ego Rodriguez | Liam Campbell | Richard Vyse | David Jester | Aaron Moth | Travis Chantar | Douglas Simonson | Guglielmo Plüschow | Vilela Valentin | Dante Cirquero | Nebojsa Zdravkovic | Brenden Sanborn | Wilhelm von Gloeden | Richard Haines | John MacConnell | Leo Rydell Jost | Jim Ferringer | Juliusz Lewandowski | Felix d'Eon | Herbert List | Joe Ziolkowski

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"Like a hare, springing erect and bounding exuberantly across a dew-kissed field, the beauty and energy of the aroused male embodies the burgeoning life force often associated with spring. After all, the hare is symbolic of natural phenomena that connote actions of the aroused male: the rising sun, the coming spring. In folklore, art and dreams, hares herald great bursts of energy and creativity. They are often thought to be touched by divine madness, by a spirit of anarchy that overturns dogmatic tradition and restrictions. They are tricksters, offering us new ways of seeing and being in the world. They are emblems of the integration of body and soul."

– The Leveret
Body and Soul

"In many mythic traditions, [hares] were archetypal symbols of femininity, associated with the lunar cycle, fertility, longevity, and rebirth. But if we dig a little deeper into their stories we find that they are also contradictory, paradoxical creatures: symbols of both cleverness and foolishness, of femininity and androgyny, of cowardice and courage, of rampant sexuality and virginal purity. In some lands, Hare is the messenger of the Great Goddess, moving by moonlight between the human world and the realm of the gods; in other lands he is a god himself, wily deceiver and sacred world creator rolled into one."

– Terri Windling
The Symbolism of Rabbits and Hares

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– Marc Michael Epstein
Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature

“Hares” by Carry Akroyd