Bright Moments Posted January 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 H.R. Giger http://hem.passagen.se/h2/giger/ yuk! my eyes hurt. and now i'm too scared to turn off the light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 Well, his work may not be the easiest to take...but it's real. I have been a fan of his work since I saw the first Alien movie when I was about 10 years old. Some of his work disgusts me as well, but there is also a lot of beauty to it. Of course I tend to lean towards "darker" art anyway, don't know why, just the way I'm wired I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 I like wood engravings. This one is from 1937 and is by George Barford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 This is by the great California regionalist, Paul Landacre. It dates from the late 1930s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 This is a woodcut by Kandinsky. It is from a book titled Homage to Kandinsky, and though the book was published thirty years after Kandinsky's death, it is an actual woodcut, printed directly off the block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 One more wood engraving. This is by Howard Cook and dates from 1930 or '31. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 One more wood engraving. This is by Howard Cook and dates from 1930 or '31. Something sexy about that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 (edited) Something sexy about that one! Funny you should say that. Cook's reputation is based in large part on his infatuation with skyscrapers. He happened to be living in NYC when the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building were going up, and he was inspired, as were, of course, many other artists. Here's Cook's most famous wood engraving. Edited January 23, 2004 by Brownian Motion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I love this color woodcut and saved it my hard drive, but now I can't remember the artist. All I remeber is that itt was a British woman, and I think it was done in the late 1920s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Gordon Grant was a famous artist of ships and waterside communities. This is Main Street Gloucester in 1937, a lithograph. It was no big deal the year it was drawn, but it has aged well. It puts me in mind of Picasso's famous response to Gertrude Stein. Picasso had drawn Stein's portrait, and she had complained that it didn't look like her. "It will", Picasso assured her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man with the Golden Arm Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Right around the corner and about nine years prior is: "Prospect Street" Edward Hopper I can assure you that Gloucester does not look like this in any way today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrome Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Eric Drooker ... anyone have one of his graphic "novels"? I have "Flood," which is pretty incredible. No words at all, just pictures, yet incredibly moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Father of the graphic novel was a Belgian named Franz Masereel. I think his first book was published right after WWI. His work offers a powerful critique of post-war Europe. "The Sun" dates from 1920, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I think there was a detail or a reworking of the posted Eric Drooker piece on the cover of Arturo Sandoval's last cd. --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Didn't Masereel produce another graphic novel (no words) titled "Passionate Journey"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Jean Paul Riopelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 (edited) Jean-Paul Riopelle Edited January 27, 2004 by Ed Swinnich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 (edited) Clyfford Still Edited January 27, 2004 by Ed Swinnich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Yes, he did. He also produced a work called "The City". An American named Lynd Ward went to Germany to study art in the late 1920s and was introduced to Masreel's work. Ward went on to produce, between 1929 and 1937, four full length woodcut novels as well as a pair of shorter works--woodcut novellas I suppose. Here is a sample of Ward's work from 1937's "Vertigo", his last and IMO his greatest woodcut novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 One other plate from "Vertigo". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Francoise Sullivan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 (edited) Tom Thompson Edited January 27, 2004 by Ed Swinnich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Francis Bacon is someone I never tire of: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Ed, Tom(my) Thompson, Group of Seven precursor, right? I love the group of Seven, eight or nine...Don't think I've seen that orangy one before though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 (edited) Yes, he did. He also produced a work called "The City". An American named Lynd Ward went to Germany to study art in the late 1920s and was introduced to Masreel's work. Ward went on to produce, between 1929 and 1937, four full length woodcut novels as well as a pair of shorter works--woodcut novellas I suppose. Here is a sample of Ward's work from 1937's "Vertigo", his last and IMO his greatest woodcut novel. Very nice. BTW, is this the same Lynd Ward who did "The Biggest Bear," and "The Silver Pony" (not to mention "God's Man")? Edited January 27, 2004 by BruceH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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