My favorite works will always be Hockney's colored pencil drawings.
How anyone can evoke this richness and vibrancy with such an economy of line is beyond me.
David Hockney, the British artist best known for his vivid painting style, has died at the age of 88.
His career spanned seven decades, using painting, printmaking, photography and. more recently, digital art to depict his native Yorkshire and adopted home of California.
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We can't view these posters merely as film advertisements. The moonlight, the desolate city, the rats, and Orlok draw heavily upon early 20th-century German Expressionist art, Goya's etchings, and the fantastical visual culture of German Romanticism.
Nosferatu was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. The story moved from England to the fictional German town of Wisborg, and Count Dracula was transformed into Count Orlok. After a lawsuit filed by Florence Stoker, a court ordered the destruction of the film's negatives and all prints in 1925.
The film was saved from being wiped from history thanks to copies scattered across different countries.
Poster designs and film advertising for Nosferatu. Artist: Albin Grau, 1921-1922. Collection: Bildnachlass Albin Grau, Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Trogen, Switzerland.
By personally illustrating the posters alongside designing the sets and costumes, Grau aimed to spark the audience's first encounter with horror on the streets, well before they even stepped foot inside a theater.
With a lifelong interest in the occult (mysticism and supernatural beliefs), Grau didn't stick to the familiar image of the 'elegant and seductive aristocratic vampire.' The character of Orlok, played by actor Max Schreck, drew inspiration not just from the script, but directly from these very designs.
La Révolution Surréaliste ¹, №12, (1929) Maxime Alexander, Louis Aragon, Andre Breton, Luis Buñuel, Jean Caupenne, Paul Eluard, Marcel Fourrier, René Magritte, Albert Valentin, André Thirion, Yves Tanguy, Georges Sadoul, Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, Max Ernst , Salvador Dalí.
És tanta la bellesa, la profunditat i el caràcter premonitori d'aquesta escena de LUCKY DUCKY (1948) de Tex Avery —el technicolor perdria molt protagonisme a inicis dels anys 60 fins a la seva desaparició — que em deixa sense paraules.
#OnThisDay, Europe witnessed its largest meteorite fall in recorded history, over the Ukrainian village of Knjahynja. This drawing of the event was published by Austrian mineralogist Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger. More meteors and comets in art here: https://t.co/atQNGOL99r #OTD