Rockwell Kent was born in 1882, a town in the north of New York, USA. He graduated from Columbia Architecture Department. His later illustrations have a lot of details of architectural art painting, whether it is painting pavilions and temples of classical novels or portraits, they all have a three-dimensional sense of sculpture!
Rockwell is good at drawing illustrations for famous books. Kent was also the most famous American illustrator in the heyday of American book publishing industry in the 20th century. He went in and out of publishing industry and news and merchants' giants. He was generous and sociable, and designed family library tickets for these celebrities. The design of an ordinary public library ticket costs between one hundred dollars and two hundred dollars. It is a new generation of successful professional printmakers and library ticket design experts!
He is well dressed, goes in and out of the upper class, can sell his own paintings and run his own life, which fully embodies the characteristics of American life. Kent is quite versatile in painting. He is good at oil painting, watercolor painting, sculpture, decorative painting, woodcut, slate painting and copperplate printing. He is a great artist with great talent!
Illustrations of famous works painted by Kent include (Moby Dick), the famous Chaucer's (Canterbury Tales), Goethe's (Faust) (decameron's Complete Works of Shakespeare), Whitman's (Leaves of Grass) in the United States, and the logo of Random House in the United States is also illustrated by Voltaire's (honest man) painted by Kent!
This is an illustration drawn by Kent for (Canterbury Tales). Kent's illustrations are very individual, with clear lines in black and white, a sense of humor and a slightly exaggerated and artistic realism of the characters! The style of the work is obviously different from that of European illustrators in depicting the scenery of the characters in the novel. After being familiar with it, it has the taste of standard American culturalism in the early twentieth century!
Rockwell Kent died in 197 1 year. He was a great painter with a long life! Married three ladies. The third lady in her later years was not much older than his children, and was very popular with painters. Just like Zhang Daqian in our country, she left several old ladies in the mainland and took her little lady to Taiwan Province and Brazil in her later years!
Rockwell Kent painted, wrote, sailed, explored, traveled around the world, loved and had an affair. .....
(The picture is taken from the library of rational career writers)
The development history of illustration 1, illustration first developed with the changes of newspapers and books in the early 19th century. Its golden age first began in the United States in 1950s and 1960s. At that time, the illustrations just separated from art works were obviously painted, and the authors engaged in illustrations were professional painters. Later, influenced by the abstract expressionist school, they changed from concrete to abstract.
2. It was not until 1970s that illustrations returned to the realistic style.
3. After the liberation of illustration, the format of blackboard newspaper, print and poster developed, and the international popular style was used for reference after 1980s. In the middle and late 1990s, with the popularization of computer technology, more cutting-edge authors used computers for illustration design emerged.
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Illustration classification
1, poster advertisement illustration. Also known as posters and posters. In an era when advertising mainly relies on the printed media to transmit information, it is in a dominant position in advertising. However, with the emergence of film and television media, its application scope has narrowed.
2. Newspaper illustrations. Newspapers are one of the best media for information transmission. It has the characteristics of popularization, low cost, large circulation, wide spread, fast speed and short production cycle.
3. Illustration of magazines and books. Including the design of front cover and back cover and illustration of text, it is widely used in all kinds of books. Such as literature books, children's books, science and technology books, etc. Is gradually declining.
4, product packaging illustration. Product packaging makes illustrations more widely used. Product packaging design includes three elements: logo, graphics and text. There are two missions: one is to introduce products, and the other is to establish brand image. The most prominent feature is that it is between plane and three-dimensional design.
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In the mid-20th century, Japanese culture was impacted by European and American cultures. What are the characteristics of illustration in artistic thought and style? First of all, there is something wrong with your question. Japan has been impacted by European and American cultures, which can be traced back to more than a hundred years ago.
Probably1after the Meiji Restoration in the 1960s.
But hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago, Japanese culture was in line with China culture, but with the decline of modern China (get out of here), Japan gradually set its sights on the world.
On the basis of retaining the original China-like culture, I learned some myths, legends, works of art and theoretical knowledge from European countries, and brought them back to China, which was also highly praised by the government.
There was a period of "disharmony" between ancient China culture and European culture. For example, Japanese kimono was almost a copy of China Hanfu, and the architectural style after Meiji Restoration was designed by some designers studying abroad, showing European style.
Therefore, the present Japanese artistic thought style is a combination of ancient China culture and European culture.
In the vernacular, it is four unlike.
Japan is a very formal country, which is related to its geographical environment. It is a small country with few mountains.
You can get to know the accompaniment of the China version of jasmine, and then the Japanese version of jasmine, and you can get to know it directly.
The style of Japanese jasmine has a strange feeling.
If there is no big river, praise the stream; if there is no mountains and rivers, praise the low hills.
Unlike China's closed-door policy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Japan has embarked on an open road after the Meiji Restoration, but this kind of opening has gradually become "too open".
Japan can not only make film and television works extremely touching and true, but also make a work extremely bloody, violent and true.
It means to be more extreme. After coming into contact with the Japanese in the future, you will find that the Japanese who appear respectful on most occasions will be "bestial" in some entertainment places.
In contrast, people in China are more average.