Traces, the magazine of the Indiana Historical Society, has just printed an article on the life and work of Franklin Booth, perhaps the most accomplished of Indiana's illustrators and brother of Hanson Booth, subject of the previous posting. The article is called "Billowing Clouds, Towering Timbers," and it was written by Thomas E. Rugh. Rather than compete with Mr. Rugh's article, I will offer some artwork by Booth. You can read more about him in Traces for Spring 2011. Franklin Booth was renowned for his technique with a pen, but as this illustration shows, he was every bit as fluent in the language of color. Fantasy illustrator Roy Krenkel (1918-1983) appears to have owed much to his predecessor. Booth was largely self-taught as an artist. In his naivete as to how black-and-white illustrations were reproduced, he believed they were drawn by hand, so he painstakingly copied the technique of the engraver. In his maturity as an artist, the results were stunning, as this illustration can only suggest. Franklin Booth was also a cartoonist, though perhaps just once. His "Uncle Charlie Returns to the Farm," a Sunday newspaper comic strip, dates from 1904. Text and captions copyright 2011, 2024 Terence E. Hanley
Angus Mcbride Here is even more as promised, with others to come…..
Angus Mcbride “Angus McBride was one of the world’s most respected historical illustrators, who contributed to more than 90 Osprey titles over three decades.” To look for these ti…
Angus Mcbride More from the master….. If anyone notices any errors of pictures that don’t match with the artists name please let me know, thanks.
Gerry Embleton “Gerry Embleton is an Anglo-Swiss artist who works internationally. He was Born in London, England, which remained the hub of his working life until he moved to Switzerl…
Sujet : Les combats de la Résistance Consignes : Après avoir présenté ce document en insistant sur le contexte historique, vous montrerez en quoi il nous informe sur les motivations des résistants et sur la diversité des actions menées Document 1....
Les musées et les galeries d’art sont devenus une expérience accablante pour les visiteurs. Heureusement, certaines personnes démêlent et simplifient les vieilles idées et les vieux concepts dans un langage que nous, les mortels, pouvons comprendre. Nous vous avons déjà présenté des peintures historiques avec des sous-titres hilarants, mais aujourd’hui, nous vous présentons quelque chose
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Adam Hook Only thing I could find about Adam Hook was what Osprey Publishing had on there sight which was that he studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializ…
Gustave Dore (1832-1883) created the most popular illustrations and engravings in history. He reminds me of the top character actors of all time—you know their work, but you don't know their names. Gustave Dore was the most famous living artist in the world during his lifetime.
Angus Mcbride And some more……. I thought it kind of funny that someone started a Facebook account for Mcbride at but you can get some other photos there as well.
The medieval jester grew out of ancient traditions of the comic actor. Many diverse cultures around the world have had some form of the jester, but the medieval court jester is the most iconic.
The recent book The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration is not to be leafed through lightly. The volume reproduces 19th-century imag ...
The best pictures of a monastic scriptorium show the monks at work on their elaborate and painstaking artistry. The first picture shows a group of monks in the scriptorium. A monastic scriptorium by Peter Jackson The second picture shows a closer view of a monk at work on his vellum manuscript. A monk writing his […]
It can hardly have escaped your notice that a rather major feature film opened across the world this week. We all are awash in the sights, sounds, and excitement of the newest Star Wars movie, and as you know, the Medieval Manuscripts department is always eager to join in the...
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Zijn tegenspeler in de film Johnny English kwam vorige week al in het nieuws met een fotoserie. Acteur John Malkovich kroop voor zijn goede vriend fotograaf Sandro Miller in de huid van iconische figuren op iconische foto’s. Deze...
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Leading from HR Giger: Biomechanoid III (work 255), 1974 and Alien: Unlocking the design of the Space Jockey and Necronom IV (work 303) (1976) by HR Giger a) Viewing device near to face Once Giger had decided to use the Sokar barge for the basis of his Space Jockey chair, one can go back to look at the Necronomicon to see possible further ideas for the development of the space jockey in its chair, deliberately or non-deliberately because the contents of Giger's Necronomicon show ideas already infused with Giger's mind so to find him gravitating towards patterns and structures that he would have been previously familiar with unconsciously would only be normal. However here we go back and look for similarities that might show the further development. (NB: This idea also comes from Jean Cocteau's Reveries of Opium which inspired his National Park painting, and perhaps Cocteau's work seems suggestive of Dali's 1929 painting, The Great Masturbator which shows a woman's head appearing to sniff the crotch of a man. (See Gigers National Park And Jean Cocteau's Reveries of Opium, descendants of Dali's The Great Masturbator)) details from National Park (1975), Necronom IV (1976) and The Space Jockey (1978) b) Easy Riders in the details. In these images I will refer to the figures who are almost there riding motobikes as "Easy Riders" after the Dennis Hopper movie. Look at the comparison between Giger's final Space Jockey painting and the head of the creature in Necronom IV turned almost upside down. Highlighted in green is what I would imagine to be a false eye in the back of the creature's head, and highlighted in magenta is a false arm of an unseen rider. Maybe this was a remnant of an earlier idea that Giger had for one of his Easy Riders before he inverted the picture and changed the changed the whole sense of the painting to make it a humanoid. We also see the back extremity with a tip that curves inwards to support the phallic end of the creature's head could very well have served as inspiration for the curved viewing device that extends from the telescope like object towards the pilot. This also shows up in Giger's earlier painting in a different way where it shows a humanoid with a helmet covering his eyes and his face close to something that appears to be an appendage or head of another creature in the National Park painting but also seems to transform into a screen for the hidden astronaut to look into in Necronom IV, and this reoccurring idea turns up in the final space jockey. Giger's Biomechanoid III c) Biomechanoid III and the Talhoffer's 15th C drawing of a diving suit. Here is an detail of an head from Giger's painting Biomechanoid III (work 255) done in 1974 . It looks vaguely like the skull of an elephant transformed into a biomechanic entity. It is said that Giger was given a rhinoceros skull to use when making Alien but I suspect that he had an elephant' skull to use instead or as well. However the head shown here also resembles the headgear from the Talhoffer diving suit design from the Thott manuscript from the 15th Century which displays various designs for various weapons of war barely imagined to have existed in modern day perception. See also : HR Giger: Biomechanoid III (work 255), 1974, memories of the Egyptian mummy at the Rätisches Museum of Chur? head gear for the diving gear drawn by Hans Talhoffer back in the 15th century for the Thott manuscript Diving suit drawn by Hans Talhoffer back in the 15th century for the Thott manuscript d) Chiquita corpse. We also find the character also as a corpse in a hollow found in the painting "Chiquita" from 1972, it basically gives us the complete body of a Space Jockey with the ribcage and head composed from unspecific details. The face of the skull might be inspired by a mouse skull . detail from "Chiquita" , 1972 e) Astroeunuch. And going further back in time, at the bottom of this black and white drawing titled "Astreunuchen" from 1967 you can see another EasyRider lying on it's back embedded into some sort of a sheathe like object and he is holding a pair of handlebars with an enlarged cranium and a pipe running down along it's face leading down to it's belly button. There is another entity embedded in the opposite end holding a syringe. There are other examples of a humanoid entity with such a face from this time in his work, including in his ink drawing Atom Kinder. The Easy Rider in the "astreunuchen" is connected to a structure curved like a boat. Maybe this image came out of familiarity with the Henu Barque f) Evolution of Space Jockey from nature A photo of an almost humanoid looking Indian elephant skull from the DK Images website. It resembles the space jockey type skull to some degree, and in the past, people have dug up elephant skulls and have mistaken them for the skulls of humanoid giants.
Angus Mcbride Yet another post of Mcbride……..and to think that this is but a bit of his life’s work.
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Art aficionados like to pretend that there's a very specific and complex science behind interpreting paintings. But as these humorous tweets reveal, the hidden messages are often pretty obvious, not to mention pretty funny!
The barter system facilitated exchange of goods and services before the advent of the monetary system. Let us take a closer look at the history of this age-old system.
