Month: October 2010
-
Antipodean Fantasy on BibliOdyssey
The Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from the last quarter of the 19th Century to the early decades of the 20th, is most often associated with artists from the U.S. and Europe; but terrific illustrators were also working on the other side of the Earth, in Australia and New Zealand. BibliOdyssey, that ever fascinating and…
-
Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers
It has been frequently pointed out that there is a close relationship between comics (or “graphic stories”), and film; in that both are visual storytelling mediums. The two arts share many of the same fundamental processes in constructing a visual story: scene composition, visual continuity, establishing shots, close ups, downshots, upshots, and so on; they…
-
Salvator Rosa
Italian Baroque painter Salvator Rosa was known for his romantic (“sublime”) landscapes, battle scenes and marine paintings, as well as religious, allegorical and history paintings. He was also known as a rebel and free thinker, restless in his pursuit of intellectual and artistic exploration. Rosa was born and studied in Naples, though he studied for…
-
Peter de Sève: new website
Peter de Sève’s delightfully whimsical, wonderfully styled and beautifully rendered illustrations have become familiar to readers of The New Yorker, for which he has done a number of memorable covers, and other publications like Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian and Atlantic Monthly. Since I last wrote about him De Sève’s website has been revised and expanded, and…
-
Vermeer: Master of Light
Vermeer: Master of Light is a short series of videos from the National Gallery of Art in Washington that explores some aspects of Vermeer’s paintings, like composition, color and diffuse edges, that are characteristic of his work and make a Vermeer a Vermeer. The series can be accessed on ArtBabble. There are five episodes, plus…
-
Paul Antonson
Sacramento based illustrator Paul Antonson has for several years done illustration and interactive design for the Wall Street Journal Online. He also has editorial clients that include The Village Voice, New York Press and The Onion. He is a children’s book illustrator as well. Antonson’s website includes work from various aspects of his career, and…