Tag: Illustration
JAW Cooper, about sketching a wicked world
This week we are featuring an illustrator from USA, Jaw Cooper.
I contacted her early this morning and she was very kind to introduce herself with a small bio, you are going to see at the end of the article.
What can I say about JAW?
She is undoubtly talented. There is something very close to anime in her artwork and a mix with the detailed nature drawings we used to see in dictionaries. I can read some influence from the Art Decó style. As well as a resemblence to Egon Schele sketches for the girls and some influences of the animals in the paintings of the Renaissance, like you see for example with the hares or rabbits.
The naive and surreal art of the brazilian illustrator Anna Anjos
This week, we have Brazil as a guest: the talented Anna Anjos.
Anna Anjos was born in march 1985, in São Paulo, capital.
The Talented Mister Gross
Everybody think Alex Gross (1968) is an amazing and talented illustrator. And he is. There are a lot of influences in his art. From Renaissance to Japanese advertising.
A Brief History of Illustration (Final)
This is the final part of the serie A Brief History of Illustration. I know you are thinking “Define brief…”. Everything has an end. Even “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” is over and we are ending this neverending history here.
A Brief History of Illustration (Part IV)
We are almost finishing this Brief History of Illustration.
In this part we are gonna run through 30 years of history beginning with the Psychodelia of the 70′s to finish with the tech 90′s and the first steps of Internet. This is the end of the world as we knew it.
The main facts of this period are:
1.- Punk style.
2.- Science-Fiction.
3.- The development of a growing market for magazines fosters the opportunities for new and young illustrators. Some of them are working for the Movies Industry creating amazing posters.
4.- In the print history we have: Laser Printer (1969), Dot Matrix Printer (1970), Inkjet Printer (1976), Fine Art Digital Photo Printers(1991) and 3D Printing (1993).
4.- The growing industry of the Advertising.
5.- Artistic influences of the period: Performance Art, Photorealism, Post-Modernism, Techno-Impressionism
In this chapter we are going to see the famous movie poster creator Chris Foss, the psychodelic Gerald Scarfe, the irreverent Ian Pollock, the beautiful simplicity which charmed Woody Allen in the illustrator Jean Michel Folon, the popup books of Jan Piekowski, the tenderness of Maurice Sendak and, finally, the iconic Phillip Castle with the famous red tongue of Rolling Stones and the violence of the movie Clockwork Orange.
Enjoy it!
The next week, the final part.
A Brief History of Illustration (Part III)
In the past parts, we reviewed since the origins of Illustration to 1940.
In this part we are going to check thirty years of Illustration, from 1940 to 1970.
The pervasive facts to remember for this period are:
1.- The Second World War.
2.- In 1949 we had the first Photocopier and in the 1960s appeared Xerography Photocopier.
In 1969 appears the Laser Printer.
And finally (for this period), in 1970 it appears the Dot Matrix Printer.
3.- Political posters and “lighter†colors. The last thing because the prints were made in cheap paper.
4.- In America springs the image of the Housewife ( which still is not desperate) and the images of lifestyles according to the American Dream.
5.- High badges for Advertising.
6.- The appearing of the Aerobrush.
7.- The new medium, the TV, is getting in the houses of the world.
8.- Some artistic influences of the period: Abstract Expressionism, Postwar Expressionism in Europe, Pop Art, Op Art, Color Field Painting and/or Conceptual Art, Performance Art, Photorealism, Minimalism and Neoromantic (specially in England).
9.- The illustrated novels are disappearing.
A Brief History of Illustration (Part II)
In the first part, we review the first years of the history of Illustration, since the Lascaux’s Bulls to the year 1900.
For this part, we are going to travel to the first forty years of the 20th century.
Let’s see what was happening in the world:
1.- In England, books were very expensive, then, the target market of the books was the adults. However, there was a huge market for the books for children (with wealthy parents).
A strong influence of Aubrey Beardsley (see part I).
England was the center for the Book production.
2.- In America, we have the influence of Howard Pyle, called the Father of the American Illustration.
America was the center for Magazines production.
3.- Illustrators became specialists in some sort of illustration.
4.- The rising of the poster as a medium for the Advertising.
5.- The Great Depression of the 30’s.
6.- The year 1907 was the year of the creation of the Screen Printing, but it was used extensively the 20’s decade.
7.- Influence of the First World War.
8.- Artistic influences: Art Noveau, Japanese art, Art Decó, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaists, De Stijl (Neo-Plasticism), Surrealism and Harlem Renaissance ( in America).
We are gonna begin a trip since the father of the American Illustration, Howard Pyle, and then with the beautiful illustrations for children of Beatrix Potter and Jean de Brunhoff, passing by the Christy Girls of Howard Chandler Christy, the new patriotism of James Montgomery Flagg and we are gonna finish with Ernest Shepard, the author of the famous Winnie the Pooh, and with the amazing and mathematical artwork by Maurits Escher.
A Brief History of Illustration (Part I)
This brief history of illustration is not intended to be an academic vision of the illustration. It is a subjective approach to the discipline and a medium to show some of the most important illustrators of all times. We will be jumping from East to West, from Britain to America.
It is ordered in five parts. This is the first one.
