Arthur RackhamArthur Rackham was born on the 19th of September 1867 in London and died of cancer at the age of 71 in Limpsfield, Surrey. He's considered to be one of the most recognisable artists of the Golden Age of Illustration in Europe, along with John Bauer and Theodor Kittelsen.He was born in a big family - it's enough to mention that he had 11 siblings, but surely plenty of you knows that it wasn't quite unusual in the XIX century and earlier. We know that in his youth, Rackham's health was rather poor - hence he travelled to Australia with his two aunts to improve his condition.After he returned, he began studying at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892 he started working as a r
Jean Giraud (Moebius)Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (also known as Moebius) was a French comics artist, working in the French tradition of bandes dessinées (bandes dessinées is derived from the original description of the comics art form as "drawn strips").Many artists from around the world have cited Giraud as an influence on their work. Giraud was longtime friends with manga author and anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Giraud even named his daughter Nausicaä after the character in Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Asked by Giraud in an interview how he first discovered his work, Miyazaki replied:"Through Arzach, which dates from 1975, I believe. I only read it in 1980, and it was a big shock. Not only for me. All manga authors were shaken by this work. Unfortunately, when I discovered it, I already had a consolidated style so I couldn't use its inf
A glimpse into Baroque Art♕ Introduction:Baroque is an art movement from the 17th century, that resulted from the religious wars of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation. Religious faith reached an emotional height and the intense feeling, which inspired both faiths, produced a rich expression in art.The term baroque implies a certain roughness, and the stormy paintings and dramatic music of the Baroque period often possessed the rugged torment of emotion. The French used the word "Baroque" to mean "a painting in which the rules of proportion are not observed and everything is represented according to the artist's whim." In the 17th century, art was naturalistic rather than ideal, and emotional rather than rational-art of movement, vitality, and brilliant color. Subjects could be chosen from daily life, as well as antiquity and the Bible, and presented to
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Traditional Tuesdays #32Howdy peeps? Welcome to the edition 32 of Traditional Tuesdays . This week, like all thirty of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness. I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a good mix of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!** <
Traditional Tuesdays #35Howdy peeps? Welcome to the edition 35 of Traditional Tuesdays . This week, like all of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness. I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a good mix of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!**WARNING:Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEENWARNED!** :thumb31
Art History - Interview with Mollinda:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers Today it's the totally awesome `Mollinda, former Traditional Art Community Volunteer, now full time mother, artist and all-round darling.:iconMollinda:Hi `Mollinda, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. Herro, I'm Molly. I paint, I draw, I photograph... I just love art.I draw and paint from photographs and from life as I love to make mundane, every day objects and situations into something beautiful (hopefully!) but I also cartoon and doodle monsters and all sorts of ridiculous things.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?I love that it is tangible, that I can move materials around with my fingers and that there's no ctrl+z.If you make a mistake, you ma
Golden Age of Illustration When in the second half of the 19th century newspapers and illustrated books became popular and widespread thanks to improvements in printing technology, many artists found their base to spread their skills. The official time span of the Golden Age of Illustration is said to be from 1880s to 1920s, but it varied a little bit between Europe and America.While European illustrators were influenced mostly by the Pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau and Post-Impressionists (especially by Les Nabis, a group of Parisian artists), their American colleagues focused around Howard Pyle's Brandywine School of American Illustration in the Brandywine Valley.Amongst the most popular artists of this time we find Arthur Rackham (UK), Howard Pyle (US), Ivan Bilibin (Russia), Theodor Kittelsen (Norway), Edmund Dulac (France), John Bauer (Sweden), Beatrix Potter (UK), N.C. Wyeth (US), Sul
Art History - Interview with deshrubber:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers Today it's the talented ^deshrubber, your Community Volunteer for Traditional Art:icondeshrubber:Hi ^deshrubber, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. Hi, I'm Tim! I've been drawing for most of my life and took up painting around the age eighteen. Abstract is the general style most of my works fit into, mainly because I like to watch people try to figure out what they mean.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?I love the smell and feel of the paint. The way bristles of a paint brush move under different pressures, tablet pens don't have that feeling. I like the way textures are real and cast shadows(if heavily textured) , which you don't get with di
Creepy corners of Giger's mind - Art HistoryThose of you, who haven't heard about H.R. Giger, must have heard at least about his most famous creation, which is the Alien. Thanks to his contribution in Alien movie, which was awarded with an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects, Giger became famous worldwide and turned out to be an inspiration for many artists.Hans Rudolf Ruedi Giger was born on the 5th of February 1940 in Switzerland. He started developing unusual interets and behaviour in his early childhood, having a habit of wearing only black clothes or making his playroom in an only room without windows in his parents' house. He spent a part of his time on constructing toys on his own... like some very nice, shiny daggers.In the '60s, he moved to Zürich and studied Architecture and
Art History - Interview with SamuelRaffa:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers Today it's the surreal `SRaffa, your Community Volunteer for Traditional Art:iconSamuelRaffa:Hi `SRaffa, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. I grew up loving comic books and album covers, and that's the art that's had the biggest influence on me. I went to art school, and pursued work as an illustrator as soon as I graduated; I didn't start doing personal work for myself until eight years after I graduated, and I'm still doing that. My style of art is largely about trying to visualize psychological and spiritual states in a way that makes them emotionally compelling.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?I work digitally in my job as a graphic
Traditional Tuesdays #34Howdy peeps? Welcome to the edition 34 of Traditional Tuesdays . This week, like all of the other weeks, I'll be featuring fifteen works of art from the Traditional Gallery. Any more than that might and you might loss interest or it could cause your monitor to fail in an explosion of awesomeness. I would feel guilty if that were to happen, so I'm keeping it at fifteen! The Traditional gallery is a vast storeroom of work that covers many mediums and genres. I've tried to show a good mix of artwork, but I don't have room for them all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!**WARNING: Viewing these works of art may cause giddiness, elevated heart rates, and happiness in the pants(which could lead to blindness)! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!**
Art History: John William Waterhouse:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations:A man of some mystery John William Waterhouse, most affectionately known throughout his lifetime as 'Nino" was born in Rome to his English parents William and Isabella during the wonder years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who set the art world alight.It was his Italian beginnings that first influenced his artistic style as a young man first at school in Leeds, then later at his fathers studio in London where he entered the coveted Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 21, not as a painter; but as a sculptor. Six months later his probationary term ended and he was fully enrolled as a student leading to his first painting exhibits."Undine" 1872, oil on canvas and "Gone but not Forgotten" 1873, oil on canvas - shows Wa
Art History - Interview with SylwiaTelari:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers Today it's the lovely ^SylwiaTelari, your Community Volunteer for Traditional Art:iconSylwiaTelari:Hi ^SylwiaTelari, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. I'm a creation addict... and my name is Sylwia (: My personality and interests are clearly visible in what and how I do; a bit twisted, with a creepy shell, sometimes rigid, but I tend to hide a smile in details that require your search.I'm crazy about trying new things and techniques and what you can see in my dA gallery is just a tip of an iceberg.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?It's traditional (: Anything I do has a connection to the past and it gives me a chill when I think that some of the techni
Art History - Interview with pica-ae:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers Today it's the adorable ^pica-ae, your Community Volunteer for Text & Typography:iconpica-ae:Hi ^pica-ae, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. - Hi! I am a web designer form Hamburg, Germany. In my spare time I have always enjoyed doing any kind of art. When I was smaller I started with Watercolors and moved on to Oil, before I went to design school and focused mostly on digital art.My style… I am not sure I found it yet. Well, I am always looking for it, tho! I see finding one's style as a constant struggle. In my works you can find lots of bright colors, very often things are kept simple, minimal maybe in content or simple in composition. Mostly I try to keep away from
Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical DrawingsIf getting your gear together and heading out for an evening of life drawing sounds like more trouble than it's worth, consider what Leonardo da Vinci endured for the sake of educating his own singular vision.Rumors of da Vinci resorting to grave robbery persist to this day, but the truth is that he was allowed to dissect and study corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human skull in 1489 borrowed three-dimensional drawing techniques from architecture that had never been seen applied to anatomical studies before. A new technical vocabulary for anatomical drawings was created and da Vinci's sketches in plan, section, elevation, and perspective marked a massive progression in how the body was documented. Criticized for his undertaking, Leonardo passionately defended the purpos
Art History - Interview with jonniedee:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: Aspart of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some ofthe Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART CommunityVolunteers Today it's the talented *jonniedee:iconjonniedee:Hi *jonniedee, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. The artwork that I produce has a few different styles. I play with morethan one look in order to keep myself from feeling stale. The styles areblack and white photojournalism/street photography, vintage aesthetic,surreal and abstract.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?What attracts me to traditional art is the intimacy involved. When artis hand made, patience is demanded. An person can't just pick up acamera or paint brush for the first time and start making masterpiecephotographs or paintings . Time is needed for practice and theaccumulation of the sk
Flemish Primitives:iconcommunityrelations: :iconarthistoryproject:Today I would like to take the opportunity to talk a bit about a part of the history of art that's very near to my heart: the Flemish Primitives.Personally I'm very fond of this topic because it ties in with the history of my country and my love for medieval and late medieval culture. To me, it's fascinating to see how the early book-illustrators and miniaturists branched out to canvas and proceeded to be a driving force in the 15th and 16th century. They were called the "Primitives" not because of a perceived lack of refinement, but because of the groundbreaking changes when it came to topics, iconography and materials used in paintings. During this article, I will hope to relate a brief history of these painters and why they are of such importance to the art as we know it today.Though it is difficult to pinpoint the exact date of the start of the movement, it is generally said that it started withthe works of <
Art History Interview with kiwi-pdd:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: As part of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART Community Volunteers Today it's the talented ^kiwi-pdd, Community volunteer for Street Art:iconkiwi-pdd:Hi ^kiwi-pdd, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. The name I go under is Kiwi. The style of art I produce is usuallylabeled as street art. I produce canvases using spraypaint and stencilscut out of card/paper, also hand drawn stickers for trade/placement onthe street.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?My answer is twofold to that one. Firstly the joy of creating something physical and real that can be held and admired from multiple angles. Secondly my complete ineptitude when it comes to image manipulation software :t
Art History: Discovering DaliSalvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904 and has been best known and recognised throughout the years for his surrealist, ambiguous works. Dali is responsible for inspiring a plethora of artists to create, combine and step outside of their comfort zones. Many know him for his paintings, but actually like many modern artists today, Dali traversed the fields of the artistic world to pick up talents in Writing, Photography, Sculpture and Film.Dali was not famous for his methods. That's one of the mistakes that people make when tracing his history or seeking him out for inspiration. Dali's methods were much the same as anybody else's. However his concepts trumped them all and made him what he is remembered for today. He achieved his effects through a mastery of perspectiveand a critical eye for color and shape, symmetry and innuendo. It is this realization that opens up the market for future dali-esque artists. There's nothing unusual behind the crea
Art History - Interview with Astralseed:iconarthistoryproject: :iconcommunityrelations: Aspart of Traditional Art History Month I will be interviewing some of the Traditional Art Community, including your lovely TradART CommunityVolunteers Today it's the delightful ^Astralseed, your Community Volunteer for Traditional Art:iconAstralseed:Hi ^Astralseed, tell us a little about yourself and your style of Art. Hi I'm Katy and I am not very good at talking about myself . As far as my art style goes, I don't really feel that I have a particular style so to speak. I like to dabble in any and all areas of art which I possibly can and just absorb it all like a sponge. I think the style will follow eventually when I am more comfortable with the basics.What is it that attracts you to Traditional Art?Traditional art offers a lot of variety and options.
Deaf Artists ~ Art HistoryThe #ArtHistoryProject has grown from a Project into a Super-Group and is being recognized throughout deviantART. I am thrilled to participate and share with you a brief introduction to Deaf Artist. Over the next three days I will post articles regarding Historic Deaf Artist. I truly hope you enjoy reading and sharing the love of Art History. I believe it is important to share with you a brief description of Deaf Culture. Deaf Culture describes the social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values and learning centers of communities that are affected by deafness and use sign language to communicate. The word deaf is often written with a capital D, "big D, Deaf" in sign languages when being used culturally, when used in the medical field for the audiological co
The Cave PaintingsIt's amazing how much today's contemporary art is influenced by the cave paintings of the prehistoric man, thousands of years ago.Paintings of that era from the Neolithic age onwards are full of animals which look powerful and life like. They have a strong line and outline and are filled in with either a block colour or are sometimes shaded. The lines are done in strong charcoal that was the leftover burnt stick from the fire and the fill in colour was dull and natural, made of mud and natural pigments.They painted their pictures in the interiors of the cave which were dark and difficult to get into. This suggests that they did not have them for decorative purposes or paint for pleasure otherwise they would have painted near the entrance where the paintings could be seen.We think the pictures were for a hunting magic because some animals have sticks or spears in them. There are also many paintings of hunting scenes and generally, human figures appear only in hunting positions. They
Surrealism on DeviantArtA small introduction:Surrealism was an artistic movement, founded in Paris 1924 by André Breton. Dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams – it's when artists create dreamlike paintings filled with familiar objects that have been changed in a weird way that you would not see in reality.Features:
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