This exhibition documents some of Steve Kuzma's artistic journey and career, shedding light on
his early illustration work in New York.
Not exact matches
As a minor
illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the
earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.
For the book he
worked with Toni Tajima (design / you all know her from both Super Natural books, and Near & Far), Laura Dart did the photography (she took this shot of me & Wayne years ago at one of the
early Kinfolk brunches), Martha Holmberg (former editor of Fine Cooking), and Melinda Josie (
illustration).
Davis is a space artist who drew
early inspiration from the
work of Chesley Bonestell, a Sputnik - era illustrator whose futuristic
illustrations of space travel often appeared in national magazines.
Pinkney recounts Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz's
early years in Brooklyn as the son of struggling Polish Jews; details how his parents, teachers, and librarians encouraged his talent; and explains how he honed his
illustration skills
working for the WPA and the air force when he could not afford art school.
Written by Natsume Ono over ten years, here is the long - awaited collection of her
early work, including numerous
illustrations and previously unpublished stories!»
Katz speaks of his
early education; his family's interest in art; his U.S. Navy service; his education at the Cooper Union School and at Skowhegan; styles and methods in painting; his
work in collage, portraiture and book
illustration; theater set design; teaching at Yale, Skowhegan and the Studio School; his interest in poetry; and his current painting style.
On view are
Illustrations by
early modernist Arthur Dove and others, a genre group by John Rogers, experimental photography by Martina Lopez, abstract
work by James Rosenquist as well as
works by Alonzo Chappel, François Girardon, George Grosz, Daniel Ridgeway Knight, Henry Varnum Poor, Adolf Schreyer, and others.
His
early work passed though the styles of impressionism, Orphism, Dada, Surealism, and verbal and visual collagel his later art extended from composition that superimpose linear painted figures upon one another (and, sometimes, several of those on apinted ground), to painting based on pinup nudes and commercial
illustrations and, finally, to coarse, heavily textured canvases that depict totems, masks and shields.
Murphy's understanding of this tradition (he studied
illustration at the School of Visual Arts in the 1970s) echoes the sort of picture - making that was prominent in the 19th century and continued somewhat into
early 20th, notably in the
work of Edward Hopper.
Paintings, drawings, commercial
illustrations, sculptures, prints, photographs, wallpapers, sketchbooks, and books cover the entire range of Warhol's career, from his
early student
work to pop art paintings and collaborations.
Four writers examine Motherwell's fervent advocacy of collage as «the greatest of our discoveries», with
illustrations of some 60 of the artist's
works from the 1940s and
early»50s.
Painted from photographs but virtually avoiding the trend for photorealism, these
works have a flatness that is very modern and akin to fashion
illustration, yet also calls to mind the
early work of Freud and Raho's big influencer, Alex Katz.
This exhibition presents Warhol's book
work, from
early student -
work illustrations of the late 1940s, through to his careers as a commercial artist in the 1950s, Pop fine artist and underground filmmaker in the 1960s, and photographer and Pop culture icon of the 1970s — 80s.
Along with well - selected
illustrations of
works in different media, the catalogue traces Sillman's
early exploration of cartoon imagery and the associative use of colors, her struggle for the unity of the physical legitimacy of the objects and the human body, her equally shared interest in figuration and abstraction, her attempts to reduce images that evoke the ambiguity of singular gestures in flux that are emphatically stable, and her «zines» and recent forays into drawings made with an iPhone.
The
work they produced in the»70s and
early»80s might be described as a theatricalization of Conceptual art, or a caustic mimicry of both fine art and commercial
illustration.
This catalog collects 27 full - color
illustrations of these paintings, along with generous examples of Slutzky's
earlier work, to critically examine how the painter's manipulation of color and transparency have transgressed the modernist canon of flatness.
Artist Lenore Simon took on learning digital
illustration in her 80s, and this exhibit will feature her
earliest works alongside her latest foray into digital art.
Mr. Jago's
early style that he explored during the nineties into the new millennium has undergone a prolonged and continuous process of abstraction and has evolved deliberately into his current way of
working; the droid - like figures of his formative, commercial
illustration slowly enveloped in ever - deepening layers of colour and shade.
The positioning of the figures must have been decided upon fairly
early in the production process as a photograph of the
work, taken when the figures were roughed out and still bore the artist's pencil markings, shows an arrangement close to the final composition (comparative
illustration).
In addition to animal art, his
early work involved a variety of media, including
illustration (in 1828 he was given the commission to illustrate the Waverley Edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels); etching and genre - painting («An Illicit Whisky Still in the Highlands», 1829, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House).
The exhibition, based on the holdings of the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, is composed of thirty paintings by N. C. Wyeth that span four decades of his
work, from
early western pictures through Robert Louis Stevenson classics to later
illustrations in experimental styles.
Swann: This drawing was found in a portfolio of drawings and examples of artworks by Loïs Mailou Jones» students from Howard University... This
illustration is a very scarce
work from Elizabeth Catlett's time as a college student, and is the
earliest artwork by the artist to come to auction.
In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious, is the first solo exhibition of
work by prolific Jamaican illustrator Wilfred Limonious (1949 — 99) in Germany, and includes reproductions of
work from the
early 1970s through the mid-1990s, spanning three key phases in his career: his comic strips for the Jamaican newspapers, his
illustrations for the publications of JAMAL (the Jamaican Movement for the Advancement of Literacy).
This
early period was one of close association between Warhol and Pearlstein as they were fellow students, roommates in New York, and enthusiastic artists
working in commercial
illustration.
This permanent collection exhibition juxtaposes American
illustration work from the 19th and
early 20th centuries with contemporary art based on literary themes in MAM's Shelby Gallery.
The old
illustrations of ice fairs and paintings of hard winters - both referenced in my
works - then need to be set beside bucolic paintings of
early harvest - which could be evidenced by crop records.
If this sort of gentle gestural satire appeals, as well it might after a wordy week at
work, you'll find dozens more examples of Niemann's
work in
earlier posts, all using
illustration in surprising ways.
He says there's been «a real mix» and one of the winners mentioned
earlier, Eric Adams, has recently received a research grant to look at Japanese internment during the Second World War — a «perfect
illustration» of both an award recognizing teaching as well as
working on research that's securing grants.