Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Artwork held at the Getty Museum: www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=25&a... ___ Slight restoration by plumleaves
Howard Phipps - Tulips. A beautiful mounted wood engraving on paper. Signed, dated, and numbered (34/100) by the artist. Information to verso. The marking on the front of the image is on the celophane wrap, not the actual print. Mount dimensions 23x25cm. Image dimensions 9x9cm. Other original prints by Howard Phipps are also available and are being added as time allows. Please feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss an item. // Howard Phipps is a painter, printmaker and illustrator with a special interest in wood engraving. He studied painting at the Gloucestershire College of Art between 1971 and 1975 and his work in this medium received critical acclaim. He is now widely acknowledged as a leading exponent of this art form and his engravings are very evocative of the English landscape, in particular Wiltshire and Dorset. Howard Phipps has exhibited widely and has been a member of The Royal West of England Academy since 1979 and the Society of Wood Engravers since 1985. He has frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.
“Get out of Russia, don’t sponge on my reputation, and change your name.” these were words of advice offered by M.P. Artsybasev, a well-known and respected Russian author, to his son Boris shortly before the First World War. Born in 1899, in Kharkov, Ukraine, the younger Artzybasheff did not leave Russia until 1919, after the Russian Revolution. The young artist settled in New York where he embarked on his artistic career. His earliest employment was as an engraver designing labels for beer and medicine bottles. He began doing free-lance work and soon established a reputation for creative design. Artzybasheff turned his attention to illustrating books. In 1927 his book designs won him the first of many prestigious awards including best illustrated book from both the American Library Association and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Throughout his career he was commissioned to design more than thirty books and illustrate another twenty. In 1940 the editors of Fortune magazine commissioned Artzybasheff to design a cover for the magazine. He had already created several colourful graphs and charts to illustrate articles in the magazine when he submitted a painting of a Japanese soldier standing before a large sculpted head of the Buddha. 1941 Fortune magazine April issue Japan in Asia This cover illustration attracted the attention of Time magazine editors who were assembling a staff of illustrators to create cover designs. Artzybasheff created more than 200 covers for Time, including portraits of Stalin, Hitler, Truman, Mao Tse Tung, and Ho Chi Minh. Time magazine, Ho Chi Minh Other compelling forms of Artzybasheff’s published works were his illustrations of mechanized humans. These pictures, which often border on the surreal, display a keen sense of how the machine works or what human task the machine was meant to replace. The images of animated weapons of war and tyranny that were created for Life magazine, demonstrate how men can create monsters that are real and deadly. 1941 Imperturbable Tank Attack When asked about his thoughts on war am weaponry, Artzybasheff relied, “I try to shake this thought off: It may be that a healthy planet should have no more life upon it than a well-kept dog has fleas; but what possesses the flea to concoct its own flea powder?” According to the editors of Life, Artzybasheff war machines “take a sardonic delight in their own power of estruction.” Many of his anthropomorphic designs, along with numerous other illustrations, were published in his 1954 book “As I See.” As I See, 1954 Artzybasheff approached the creation of his paintings with the attention to detail and process that was similar to an engineer’s approach to designing a machined component. The precision of the planned design and his control over the methods and materials were extreme important to him. He kept extensive notes on his ideas, technique, and formulae for mixing gouache paints, and even notated his preparatory sketches, constantly making revisions and adaptations. Often, he would “build” his paintings, starting with detailed drawings that were layered with skins of colour to develop the final design of the paintings. Components or features were frequently designed separately, then brought to the composition in their final form. The result was a picture that displayed the unique and imaginative vision of an artist who was justifiably labelled the “Master of the Machine Age.” Biography adapted from Domenic J. Iacono Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection This is part 1 of a 12-part series on the works of Boris Artzybasheff: 1922 The Undertaker's Garland by John Peale Bishop: The Death of the Last Centaur Madman's Funeral The Efficiency Expert The Funeral of Mary Magdalen The Fugitive Saint The End 1922 Verotchka's Tales published by E.P. Dutton, New York: Front Cover Title Page Bed Time Bed Time Bold Rabbit Bold Rabbit Cacinella Cacinella Crow and Canary Crow and Canary Milk, Cereal, and Moorka Milk, Cereal, and Moorka Mosquito and Mishka Mosquito and Mishka Sparrow, Stickleback, and Yasha Sparrow, Stickleback, and Yasha The Last Fly The Last Fly Vanka's Birthday Vanka's Birthday Wisest of All Wisest of All 1927 Creatures by Colum Padraic published by Macmillan Co., New York: Front Cover (wrapper) Front and Back Cover (wrapper) Back Cover (wrapper) Frontispiece Title Page 1927 The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young: Front Cover Title Page 1923 Kazbek Perfume advertisement
Artist Harry Clarke was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 17th March 1889. He was a leading artist of the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as the Golden Age of Illustration. He was a children's book illustrator and a well-known designer of stained glass. For full biographical notes see part 1, and for earlier works by Clarke, see parts 1 - 4 also. This is part 5 of a 7-part series on the works of Harry Clarke: 1927 Faust: Title page Margaret "Dearest and best, with my whole heart I love thee" Mephistopheles "Is there anything in my poor power to serve you?" Siebel "Clustering grapes invite the hand" Faust "Methinks, a million fools in choir are raving and will never tire" Margaret "Drest thus, I seem a different creature!" Weathercock "I'll fly from this place, with one bound, to hell, or anywhere, to leave 'em" Mephistopheles "Forward! forward! faster! faster!" Mephistopheles "Come - she is judged!" Tailpiece Faust "Modest she seems and good and mild, though something pert was her reply" Faust "I wish you had something else to do than thus torment me when I'm quiet" Margaret "And who my wound can heal, and who the pain can feel?" Mephistopheles "Already is the cry of murder raised." Mephistopheles "Firmly seize the old projections of the ribbed rock" Wizards and Warlocks "On a road like this men droop and drivel, while woman goes fearless and fast to the devil" Margaret "Does not death lurk without?" Contents page spot illustration Dedication page Endpaper Endpaper
Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Watercolour on paper Musée Bonnat, France ___ Complete restoration by plumleaves The original was chipped and missing flakes of paint: www.artfinder.com/work/eight-studies-of-wild-flowers-albr....
Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer Artwork held at the Louvre Museum, though not shown online. Louvre's other Dürer pieces: www.louvre.fr/en/moteur-de-recherche-oeuvres?f_search_art... ___ Restoration by plumleaves
[German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist, 1471 – 1528] Watercolour, pen, ink and body-colour, Kunsthalle Bremen museum, Germany Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer ___ Slight restoration by plumleaves
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