William Hogarth 1697 - 1764
Historic painter/print maker
- Gin Lane
Narrative- tells a story
Poor people used to drink Gin because it was so cheap but because they were always drunk they couldn't work and ended up in the work house in very poor conditions.
Logo for pawn shops shown ( to sell belongings to make more money) and for the funeral directors to show the flourishing buisness' during "The London Gin Craze"
Derelict buildings, people eating bones and woman dropping baby- to show the affect Gin had on London.
Made by engraving and etching.
George Shaw (1966- present)
-Photo realist
- The Sly and Unseen Day
contemporary artist
George paints images from his child hood and often feature doors making the viewer imagine whats behind them; what he's hiding from his child hood.
- thought provoking
Painted in Humbrol enamel- the paint used on model air planes.
- gives a shiny plastic looking effect.
Eberhard Havekost (1967- present)
-click and fly
-photorealism/ photoshoprealism
- its been photo shopped before being painted.
Takes action shots and then paints them to add movement and narrative to his work.
You can see it has movement because it cant be a still image without it defying gravity.
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Anthony Green (1939- present)
- painter
-contemporary
quite voyeuristic- looks as though there being spied on
view point looking down ? through a window ? makes me think that they are in a cellar and someones looking through the small window above.
Cellar makes me think its ment to be secretive which leads me to the idea of an affair ?
Picture below shows unusual view points- looks like a crumpled piece of paper
shows more rooms giving more scenes for different narratives.
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Alex Roulette
-painter
-photo realist
i like most photo realism but this image is so skillfully done that it does look exactly like a photograph except for the brush strokes you can see on the floor so you might as well just have a photograph of it.
The image does show a narrative though; looks as though the car has broken down and he's looking for something to fix it with or possibly a phone to ring for help.
Gregory Crewdson (1962- present)
-photographer
sets up a scene in a studio using lighting to photograph.
shows narrative- looks as though she's committed suicide or been murdered.
- no clear indication of murder- no blood or marks on the body
flooding- bath overflowed? - water marks on walls and cling show that the water came from upstairs
slippers on the stairs- shows a struggle ? or she took them off so she didn't get them wet
still water- been dead quite a while and the source of the water has been turned off.
there are pills on the table to suggest suicide.
could of been electrocuted in water.
Paula Rago (1935- )
-The Shakespear room
-painter
-contemporary
shes a writer ?
woman obsessed with monkeys
real monkey in arms ? adopted a monkey ? cant have her own children ?
gun- resents the monkey ? is suicidal? because of her career ?
expression on her face seems lonely ?
monkeys are her family ? and if she's going to kill herself she has to kill them too ?
Hugh Raine 'Shug'
Comic strip
Narative in this is easily shown by the speach bubbles but looking at the images you can tell that the girl is shouting/ looking for someone and the boy seems very nonchalant and doesnt care, possibly trying to play it cool, girl seems angry and upset and then the boy seems lonely, upset and seems to be pondering on something.
Simple drawings, clear facial expressions and more eye catching with colour.
Colours have a slighty ere feel (black white and green) kind of ghostly; also weird because one of the characters is called Ere.
Jeremy Day's Amazing Calabroni sisters
inspired by the story of the Zacchini family, who invented the human cannonball act in the 1920s.
The images tell the story, you dont need the writing to help understand the story.
Very bright and solid colours which are often associated with comic's.
The word 'BANG' (onomatopoeia- a sound to describe the noise)- often featured in comic's; also the font expresses the noise. Colour used for the bang (red) is a very powerful and bold colour compared to the other softer and natural colours (blue green +yellow)
Font used for the speach bubbles looks scribbley, hand written ?
Ilike the layout, it shows different points of view and has close ups of the women.
Rick Eade- Bob and the lighthouse
Soft calming colours
The narative you see in the pictures is children having a day out at the beach but you need to read the speach bubbles to understand the actual plot of the story.
simple drawings, ordinary comic layout
Comic looking font.
Ellen Lindner
Looking at this comic and other comic's by Ellen i'm really drawn to her work. Most artists tend to stick to certain things but all of Ellens comics are very different; some are very uniquely coloured like this one, some are more brightly coloured and others are black and white.
Her work tells a basic story but in every strip i've looked at there seems to be alot of writing to give more insite into the story .
High quality of drawings, lots of different shades of colour to add tone and shaddows.
She also uses very different fonts for her headings in all he work which draws me in (not your average comic fonts)
Georgina Hounsome
This was the first image of georgina's that i saw and i was drawn to it because of its bright colours and simplicity of it and thats what i like that about comics and cartoons; Howerer looking at her other work it really doesnt appeal to me because of how simple it is. Although this piece is simple it has detail to it where as some of her work just looks like coloured in silhouette's.
Jason Stavrou
I really like Jason's work, its very free and expressive; its how i like to draw.
using pen, looks as if it could be continual line
Usually when i think of this type of work i dont imagine it with colour but Jason makes it work. Also when i think of this type of work it can seem kind of harsh looking but Jason makes it work as a cartoon.
He uses lots of different colour and tone in his work keeping with the free and expressive feel.
could be done using mono print.
Karine Faou
Although i have criticised someone's work because it looked like coloured in silhouette's i like this image because it isnt done in a childish way, it looks sophisticated with something actually happening in the background and not just a coloured wash as the background.
Maria Smedstad
With Maria's work the simplicity is effective.
In most of her images you can see the story thats happening within it.
The characters all seem really cute because of the simple detail in their faces.
Mostly bright solid colours.
i like this image, its very comical and theres loads off different stories within it.
The thing i like about this type of illustration is that it tells lots of different stories but because theres no actual writing telling you whats happening you can use your imagination and come up with your own story
