“Triple Self Portrait” (Please click to enlarge the images) The Norman Rockwell Museum announced the opening of ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network) today, the 6th of January, which will allow you to look through thirty thousand of Rockwell’s reference photos, preliminary sketches and paintings, and other items from the Museum’s art [...]
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The fourth in a seasonal series of short entries featuring snow. Today’s subject is Charles Tunnicliffe; Etcher, engraver and painter, whose principal subject was bird life and the natural countryside. “Company of Whitethroats” ( Please click these images to enlarge them ). Charles Tunnicliffe RA OBE 1901 – 1979 Charles Tunnicliffe was born in Macclesfield, [...]
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The third in a pre-Christmas line up of snow paintings. From “The Christmas Troll” (Juletroll ) 1907 ( Click to enlarge, please ) At about the time when yesterday’s subject, Victor Westerholm, was active in Finland, another Scandinavian artist was struggling to make a living in Norway. While we have by and large forgotten the [...]
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The last in a survey of thirty British Film Art Directors, whose careers were summarised in a book published in 1948, and re-presented here in Articles and Texticles, with all the original text and pictures optimised for high quality presentation on the web,by Michael Hirsh
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“After Escher: Gulf Sky and Water” by Bob Staake (Please click this image to enlarge it) More New Yorker covers here.
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Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published. This chapter deals with Lawrence Paul Williams (1905 – 1996) Compressed charcoal sketch for “So Well Remembered” RKO Pictures 1947 (Please click these thumbnails to enlarge them) he became the prime mover in [...]
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I was going to post a few images of the new exhibition of Die Duckomenta, but the idea of wading (or waddling) through a hundred and twenty versions of the same joke made me grab just a couple of the non-duck images. (below). Based on that Dancing Dutchman. (Click these thumbnails to enlarge them, please) [...]
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Tagged: concept art, Illustration
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published. This chapter deals with Alex Vetchinsky ( 1904- 1980 ) He is an artist of the cinema and does not pretend to be a painter of pictures. His work is never self-conscious and [...]
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Tagged: art direction, British Cinema, Composition, concept art, Illustration, Production Design
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Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published. This chapter deals with Duncan Sutherland. (Born 1905 – ) Sutherland is another of those robust and jovial artists; like Vetchinsky, he bothers little about his drawings as such and depends for so [...]
Categories: Film,Illustration,Product Design
Tagged: art direction, British Cinema, Illustration, Production Design
