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Post by upfromsumdirt on Jul 13, 2008 14:32:47 GMT -5
i really like that 'job' card... thats the look created with vector graphics thats so popular in print media these days - cartoonish realism/the detailed illusion. but thats too much like work and i enjoy being lazy.
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Post by violet on Jul 14, 2008 9:28:09 GMT -5
Toulouse Lautrec
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Post by neil on Jul 15, 2008 13:32:27 GMT -5
i really like that 'job' card... thats the look created with vector graphics thats so popular in print media these days - cartoonish realism/the detailed illusion. but thats too much like work and i enjoy being lazy. Mucha is The Man in many graphic circles even today. he produced a strong combination of periodicity, personality and draftsmanship that created its own niche. instant one man eye candy cult. his stuff is tight.
you can run the lazy line all you want, i've never bought it. LargeLove. neil.violette - sweet Arthur Rackham. he is one of the giants fasho. made me go get another one. black and white separates the pretenders from the contenders. this bNw shows that Rackham is a consummate professional. love it.lemme go get a nice Beardsley while i'm at it. you have to be prepared when doing an image search on Beardsley coz he penned some weird/nasty stuff.the peacock skirt 1894_prolly his most famous & representativeon Beardsly from linesandcolors.com_linkFor an artist intimately fascinated with line, Aubrey Beardsley walked many of them himself. He walked a line between sickness and health, suffering from tuberculosis as a child and facing repeated bouts of ill-health before succumbing to it at the age of 25.
His ink drawings, illustrations and prints walked the line between drawing, design and decoration, going beyond even Mucha in this respect.
He balanced large areas of solid black and areas of open white with areas of intricate detail. His large shapes were often delineated with graceful sweeping curves; and the design of the elements and decoration of the surface were often more important than the illustrative qualities. He was obviously influenced by the decorative and design characteristics of the Chinese and Japanese prints that were becoming popular in Europe at the time.
Beardsley walked a line between fame and notoriety. His work was both admired and reviled. His images broke the rules of perspective and proportion; and his subject matter, often of a darkly fantastic and overtly sexual nature, broke the rules of propriety.
There is also some question about Beardsley crossing lines of sexuality and morality. On one hand he is supposed to have been part of the largely homosexual circle of Oscar Wilde and others associated with English Aestheticism, on the other hand he is rumored to have had an incestuous relationship with his older sister. His work and actions stirred up controversy both during and after his lifetime.
Beardsley drew from an early age but did not pursue art as a career at first. He was working at an insurance company in London and drawing in his off hours when he showed his work to Edward Burne-Jones, a Pre-Raphaelite artist who was a major influence on his style, who reportedly told him: “I seldom or never advise anyone to take up art as a profession, but in your case I can do nothing else.”
Beardsley went on to do illustrations for books and plays as well as posters and prints. He is famous/infamous for his darkly erotic (many would say perverse) illustrations of mythological and historical themes.
His work has been very influential on other artists, notably the poster art of the 1890’s, the late Art Nouveau artists, the Symbolists, illustrators like Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen; and the psychedelic poster and underground comics artists of the 1960’s.
Whatever we make of the lines Beardsley crossed as a person or as an artist, the lines he left on paper still have the power to shock and enthrall.Aubrey Beardsley ~ August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
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Post by neil on Jul 15, 2008 13:54:32 GMT -5
. . .i should not have used the Howard Pyle i posted earlier. it was a detail and it wasn't my favorite. my head must have rolled under the desk at the time. here's my favorite : "Pirates Attacking a Spanish Galleon in the West Indies"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_PyleHoward Pyle 1853 - 1911. can't find a date on this painting. as much as i admire Magritte, if a warehouse containing "Pirates..." and all of Magritte's work was on fire... i would save this one first even if it were the only one i could save. word.
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Post by violet on Jul 16, 2008 9:14:49 GMT -5
~very interesting Neil.
Thank you.
v
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Post by neil on Jul 18, 2008 23:22:23 GMT -5
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Post by neil on Jul 18, 2008 23:23:33 GMT -5
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Post by neil on Jul 18, 2008 23:25:55 GMT -5
MotoGP at Laguna Seca, California___today
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 16:58:38 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 16:59:48 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:01:19 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:02:13 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:03:31 GMT -5
from a painting by bunkhaus
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:14:05 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:17:41 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:18:53 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:19:34 GMT -5
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Post by apaxicana on Jul 20, 2008 17:20:30 GMT -5
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Post by nandi on Jul 20, 2008 23:30:32 GMT -5
i adore this! wow...asante sana for posting this one! Paxi I gotta say you be doin the doggone thing!
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Post by neil on Jul 22, 2008 10:02:46 GMT -5
might fine stuff, paxi grrrrl. mighty fine. yerfan neil.and death will rule over them in the morning - Srebrenica = Guernica x 20
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Post by nandi on Jul 22, 2008 11:58:46 GMT -5
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Post by violet on Jul 22, 2008 12:15:51 GMT -5
Thanks. I think she is quite prettiful myself and I bet she can breath underwater.
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Post by violet on Jul 22, 2008 12:36:33 GMT -5
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Post by violet on Jul 22, 2008 12:37:47 GMT -5
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Post by violet on Jul 22, 2008 12:42:38 GMT -5
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Post by violet on Jul 22, 2008 13:13:52 GMT -5
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Post by violet on Jul 22, 2008 13:18:03 GMT -5
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Post by neil on Jul 22, 2008 14:46:19 GMT -5
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Post by neil on Jul 22, 2008 23:16:48 GMT -5
ItalyBrazil
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Post by violet on Jul 23, 2008 8:42:49 GMT -5
Albrecht Durer
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