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Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Review of Graphic Witness: Five Wordless Graphic Novels
Telling a story purely with illustrations is a challenge not unlike making a silent movie. There can be dramatic moments of action or conflict in a wordless graphic novel. Or the images can enshrine reflective and poetic moments.
But the connective tissue of a story, such as internal thoughts, sounds, or intentions can be challenging to convey.
Wordless storiesflourished in Europe and America in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, in part inspired by dramatic visuals of the silent movie eraand expressionist art of the time.
In turn these works have inspired many contemporary comic artists, though the development of these wordless picture-stories is mostly independent of the pop-culture origins of modern comics.
Many of the artists used the time consuming method of woodcuts for their illustrations, which allowed artists to produce small runs of books, which have been prized by collectors ever since.
The best known member of this group was Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who produced several stories without words such as God's Man and Madman's Drum, but there were other artists who contributed to the genre such as Frans Masereel (1889-1972), Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Erich Glas (1897-1973), and Laurence Hyde.
The works of all of those artists are featured in the new book Graphic Witness: Five Wordless Graphic Novels, selected and edited by George H. Walker, himself a woodcut artist and professor.
The large trade paperback book consists of a separate image reproduced on each page, beautifully reproduced in black and white and occasionally a red-brown on good paper.
Here's more information aboutGraphic Witness: Five Wordless Graphic Novels.
0commentsLabels:Book reviews Monday, November 15, 2021 Monster EyeEye (sans pupil) of an underwater monster, background art from the Bakshi / Frazetta animated film Fire and Ice, 1983, acrylic and airbrush.
Here's the background painting in the context of the film (link to YouTube).0comments Sunday, November 14, 2021 Wyeth and More in Albany
There are four great exhibitions going on in Albany, and they're all in one museum:The Albany Institute of History and Art.
The first is The Wyeths: Three Generations: Works from the Bank of America Collection, which includes a couple dozen illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.The show includes the cover and endpaper art ofRip Van Winkle, plus illustrations from The White Company and Drums.
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), On the Edge, 2001, Tempera on panel, Bank of America Collection.
There's also a big selection of works by NC Wyeth's son Andrew, his daughter Henriette, and his grandson Jamie. Because these are in the Bank of America Collection, they're not often seen except in traveling exhibitions.
Another show that's on view at the museum is a single large room filled with their famous collection of Hudson River School paintings, hung salon-style.
Another small but impressive show is Romancing the Rails: Train Travel in the 1920s and 1930s, which focuses on the advertising art that promoted rail travel in the USA.
And there's a show called Fashionable Frocks of the 1920swhich presents dresses from the flapper era, extravagant and bejeweled and made for dancing. We tend to think of the '20s in black and white, but it was a time of subtle and impressive coloration.---The Albany Institute of History and Art also has a small collection of 19th century sculpture and a mummy. It's $10 for admission. The special exhibitions will be up for the remainder of the year.0commentsLabels:Golden Age Illustration,Museum Visits Saturday, November 13, 2021 Article on Gradients in International Artist #142
The new issue of International Artist Magazine features exercises and insights about painting smooth gradients, using watercolor washes, brayers, and stipple blends.
John Ruskin observed in his landmark book Modern Painters (1843) that a gradient color has the same relationship to a flat color as a curved line has to a straight line. He noted that nature contains movement of color both on the large and the small scale, even down to the smallest brushstroke or pebble: Nature will not have one line nor color, nor one portion nor atom of space without a change in it. There is not one of her shadows, tints, or lines that is not in a state of perpetual variation.
Also included in the magazine are features on Brad Teare, Julia Albo, Natalia Karpman, Kristine Rapohina, Vanessa Rothe, and Anastasia Mily--You can get a copy from the publisher or get the video download
1 commentsLabels:Color Friday, November 12, 2021 Mucha: 'Beauty is the Communication of Emotion'Alphonse Mucha's ideas about beauty come across as strongly in his oil paintings as it does in his better known Art Nouveau posters.
In his lectures on art, he said: "The expression of beauty is by emotion. The person who can communicate his emotions to the souls of others is the artist."
"To communicate with the souls of man the artist must address himself to the senses of the body.""This harmony between the suggestion of the artist and the senses is memory, the first condition of beauty."
The goal of the artist, Mucha said, is to communicate "the emotions of his own soul to the souls of others, even at the price of laborious work, and his greatest joy will be that of seeing other souls also vibrating with the happiness of his emotions."--Lectures on art: A supplement to The graphic work of Alphonse Mucha1 commentsLabels:Academic Painters Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Interview on CreativityA student named Avery had a few questions for me:
Would you consider yourself someone who has always been creative?
I didn't think of myself as particularly creative. Making stuff was just expected in my family. I'm the youngest of a family of five kids, and we had to invent our own amusements. My dad was a mechanical engineer, and I grew up in a house with a big workshop and a lot of tools. They were not helicopter parents: if you wanted to make a kite, you had to rip the kite sticks from spruce on the table saw, and if you wanted a metal toy car, you had to make a lost wax lead casting. If you liked movies, you grabbed the 8mm movie camera and made your own animation or action flick. I made my own kites and electric-powered tugboats and hand puppets, all based on how-to books that I checked out of the library.
Did you know from a young age that art was going to be your career path?
I'm not sure I would have understood the concept of a career path when I was at a young age, but as I say, I tried everything when I was in grade school: sculpting, model making, drawing, lettering, and painting. The thing that I had as a young person was endless patience and focused concentration. If something didn't work, I kept trying. I never met a professional artist until I was much older. Early on, it never dawned on me that you could actually make a living as an illustrator.
James Gurney, pen and ink drawing, age 13
You are best known for the "Dinotopia" book series. This series is beloved by so many people, both children and adults. Why do you think these books have resonated so well with audiences?
I was intrigued by fantasy universes such as Star Wars, Narnia, or Lord of the Rings. What I loved about all those stories was the completeness of the imagined worlds, and the ability to transport you inside them.
But Dinotopia doesn't follow the dramatic framework of those worlds. All of those stories start off with the basic premise of good guys on one side and bad guys on the other, with a big fight in the end. The center of every plot is the temptation of the hero by the dark forces. Even though those classic works were brilliant, to me, the good-versus-evil formula became pretty tiresome. I wanted to believe it, but I couldnt help wondering who grew the food for the orcs, or what the Stormtroopers did when they got off work, and as a result they didn't pass the believability test.
I've always believed that my best, most discerning readers are young people between the ages of 10 and 20. They don't miss a thing, and they can handle even the most abstruse philosophical or scientific concepts. I wanted to write a visual book for those readers.
Much of your artwork depicts scenes of natural beauty, both present and prehistoric. How has the role of "Nature" played its part in your life and creative work?
I was an outdoor kid and spent a lot of time sailing, hiking and backpacking in the Sierras. When I got home from my adventures, I read about explorers in National Geographic. I had grown up studying old copies of the magazine going back to the 1920s. Later, when I started working for the magazine as an illustrator, it was a golden era when National Geographic still sent its artists and art directors to meet the archaeologists on location. On some of my first assignments I had a chance to see Rome, Tarquinia, Cerveteri, Norchia, and Populonia for an article on the Etruscans. We visited some newly discovered tombs and many remote sites of Roman occupation. Having graduated from UC Berkeley as an archaeology major, this was food for my imagination.
Besides archaeology, my other fascination was with extinct creatures. When I was about eight years old my parents took me to a science museum where I saw a life-size skeleton of an Allosaurus. I was bowled over to see such a fantastic and scary-looking creature and to know it was real. I imagined that the creature would come to life at night, step off the platform and wander around the empty museum. I wanted to learn how to make paintings that brought these creatures to life.
What is one single piece of advice you would give to a young upcoming artist or author, wanting to take their passion and turn it into their career?
You've got to love painting or writing so much that you can't wait to get back to it. That enthusiasm is necessary to carry you through the inevitable frustrations and disappointments that are sure to come along. Professionals in the business may complain about the headaches of stock art, photo-illustration, digital art, A.I. art, lousy contracts, and disappearing clients. Theres no doubt: its a tough time right now to make a living as an illustrator. But it's also a time full of opportunity with fewer gatekeepers than ever before.
Now we have to come up with new ways to tell stories with pictures. We have more resources at our fingertipstools, references, printing technology, and audience-building tools via social mediathan any of our artistic ancestors ever dreamed of. You don't have to be limited by gatekeepers. There are unlimited opportunities. Making pictures is a proud calling. We should never forget how lucky we are to be able to conjure dreams out of thin air.
5comments Tuesday, November 9, 2021 Levitan's 'Water Margin'
When he painted "The Water Margin in 1898," Isaac Levitan had been suffering heart problems and knew he was nearing the end of his life
Isaac Levitan(1868-1900)-- The Water Margin -- 1898
He said:"You probably think that my future landscapes will be soaked in pessimism, so to speak? Dont worry, I love nature too much."
6comments Monday, November 8, 2021 Google Cloud VisionGoogle Cloud Vision is a free service that lets you harness the power of machine learning to analyze images.You can upload any picture. The algorithm will then compare the image to a vast database of labeled pictures and then make its best guess about what objects it sees.
In this Tom Lovell illustration, GCV is very certain that it sees a single cat, and it's relatively certain that it sees a person. No mention of the other cat, the knitting, the blue chair and the white sweater.
What happens if you give it a fantasy image that doesn't exist in the real world, such as a renegade warrior astride a Styracosaurus with a T.rex-tooth-helmet holding a saber-tooth cat skull on a staff? In this Dinotopia image it recognizes two generalized objects: "a person and an animal."
Clicking on the "labels" tab, you can see that it identifies general qualities of the image with decreasing certainty. It's wrong about hunting and it's wrong about a working animal, but it knows that it's an illustration of an extinct animal.
What happens if you input an image that has no analog in the real world because the image was itself generated by a machine-learning algorithm? Can it find something in the DNA of the image that could help it identify the word prompt that generated the image?
This picture was created by (VQGAN+Clip) with the prompt "Constructionist Typography." The properties that it finds are more general than that, but it's in the ballpark.--TryGoogle Cloud Visionyourself and let me know in the comments what you discover.
In this YouTube video, Philipp Dettmer explains the challenges faced by the immune system.
The immune system is a complex subject, but the colorful animation makes it approachable. The video serves as a trailer for his book version:Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
Check out other videos on his channelKurzgesagt In a Nutshell6comments Saturday, November 6, 2021 Otto Greiner: Observation and ImaginationOtto Greiner(German, 1869 - 1916)sketched from life, and those observations informed his imaginative work.
Here he sketches his self portrait in a mirror. His legs are crossed to raise his drawing board. He seems to have a drawing tool in each hand.
This imaginative etching shows Christ (at center) being led to Golgotha. A convict is bound to the cross at left, and there's a grotesque figure of death with a scythe at right.
Here's Greiner's portrayal of his drawing teacher.
This one is a study for the Triumph of Venus (1909), and seems to be painted from life with the angel wings added.
Speaking of winged figure, here's a tall vertical image of Ganymede:
Ganymedein Greek mythology was"the most beautiful of mortals, abducted by the gods, to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus."--More examples online:Samples on Wikimedia CommonsOtto Greiner on WikipediaImages from Jack Daulton collection0commentsLabels:Academic Painters,Figure Drawing Older PostsHomeSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)
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