Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Steinlen's Cats
Most of my readers are likely already familiar with the Art Nouveau poster art
of Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. In particular, the above ad for the Cabaret
Together with his daughter Colette, cats were Steinlen's favorite models.
He clearly observed and studied them with an inextinguishable passion,
both at rest and in action.
Steinlen's Paris home became known as "Cat's Corner". His love of felines found expression
not only in numerous commercial posters, but in many other artistic media including
sculpture, painting, drawing, wall painting, editorial illustration and cartooning.
In 1898 Steinlen published the wonderful Des Chats, Images sans paroles, a large folio of 26 plates
featuring humorous cartoon sequences of playful cats getting into all sorts of trouble.
The drawings had originally been published in the newspaper Le Chat Noir.
to portray motion in visual art, years ahead of Balla and Duchamp.
I would love to be able to see the rest of the plates...
Unfortunately, surviving copies of Des Chats are valued at over $1000!
Does anyone know if a reprint is available?
Monday, February 20, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Un Matticchio Bestiale!
Monday, January 16, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Monday, December 26, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Sunday Safari - Barbagianni
Oiva Toikka, Littala barn owl
Jan Mankes, 1913, thanks to Huismus
François-Xavier Lalanne, Oiseau de nuit (grand), 2004
Annegert Fuchshuber, Zwei und Mehr
SImona Mulazzani, illustration from Vorrei avere...
Dan May, The Witness
Renée Tremi, thanks to Artodyssey
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