This is post #5 in this mini series of Yule snow scenes, and today’s artist is T.F.Simon, a prolific painter and printmaker from Czechoslovakia who lived between 1877 and 1942. Today is the first time I’d ever heard of him! I just stumbled onto a website devoted to him, while looking for somebody else. (Click [...]
Categories: Art,Composition,Painting,Visual Research
Tagged: Czechoslovakia, japonisme, Kyoto, Prague, Printmaking
While doing some visual research for an ongoing project, I came across this beautiful group of textile print designs from a photo set on Flickr. Here’s the Flickr set it forms part of – There’s a blog called Teatime, that is linked to the set … … that contains some very lovely vintage illustrations of [...]
Categories: Art,Illustration,Textile Design,Visual Research
Tagged: , design, flickr, japonisme, kimono, oriental, pin-ups, textiles
