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Inspiration from Artists Week 32 : Jonathan Yeo and Roger Dean.
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Wonder who Ned was...
The trouble, if it is a trouble, with an entirely self-taught artist is that their influences show; there are touches of Euan Uglow in some of the above, and his homage to Lucian Freud - basically a copy of a Freud self-portrait - shows Freud's technique, minus the materials used to create it: Freud's paintings are as much sculpture in thick lead-based white, which I imagine Yeo doesn't use. Consequently, he has a version of a Freud that lacks the monumentality.
However: the portrait of Camilla is brilliantly done; and that of Peter Blake is not only brilliant but appropriate in its finish - a highly polished and posed portrait of Blake would be wholly untypical of the man. The Kevin Spacey as Lear is also suitably theatrical. These of course are observations rather than criticisms - I've no desire to be an art critic, having read the awful gush and guff all too many of them write.
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An early start for the Roger Dean thread.
William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), known as Roger Dean, is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960s. The covers often feature exotic fantasy landscapes. His work has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.
Roger Dean enrolled at the Royal College of Art in 1965 to study furniture design. He graduated from the RCA in 1968 with a masters first degree honours. An early chair design of his now in the permanent collection at the V&A. His first album design was for the rock band 'Gun', after which a cover for the afro rock band 'Osibisa' and in the 70's his covers became synonymous with the progressive rock band 'Yes'. Dean's iconic logo design for the band Yes has been repeated many times in many colours and is now also part of the V&A collection.
I've included just a few images to get you started, but more can be found by referring Dean's website at www.rogerdean.com and his Wikipedia page. I've also discovered a few videos of him at work on Youtube.
I realise he's not going to be everybody's cup of tea, but his artwork was part of my teenage years and I still find myself inspired by it even today.
First up a rather nice early piece which shows Dean's love of natural forms:
The album cover for Gentle Giant below shows some nice marbling effects
The Greenslade cover below shows some of his signature rock formations.
and no introduction to Roger Dean would be complete without a couple of Yes related items. First, the cover to Relayer which, as a poster, adorned my bedroom wall in the 70's.
and a piece from the Yesshows album which is a bit more sedate.
The album cover for Gentle Giant below shows some nice marbling effects
The Greenslade cover below shows some of his signature rock formations.
and no introduction to Roger Dean would be complete without a couple of Yes related items. First, the cover to Relayer which, as a poster, adorned my bedroom wall in the 70's.
and a piece from the Yesshows album which is a bit more sedate.
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by Andrew Roles
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Roger Dean is one of my all-time favourite artists. I bought the first book he published on his work in 1975 and the first artwork we bought for our first house in the same year was a poster of his badgers. Like Andrew, I am still inspired by his work today and my copy of his book (cover picture below) is now thoroughly dog eared.
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by Jenny Harris
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Haven't heard of Roger Dean before, though some of his work does suggest, indeed, album covers. My first thought was Toyah Wilcox's 'Anthem' but that turned out to be an illustrator called Steve Weston. Whilst I struggle with the difference between 'illustrator' and 'artist', I will leave you with this work by Dean (so difficult to choose one). It's called Spring.
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PS Knew there was an album cover in there. The flying elephants was the cover of an eponymous album by Osibisa....back in '71. Though you have to be a bit long in the tooth to remember that......oddly I can remember the album cover better then the music, which says something for Roger Dean's artwork.
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by Tony Auffret
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Remember him well - my brother had all those record covers: I admired them at the time far more than the music; love his fantastic forms, and sense of colour - wouldn't want the work on my walls; purely because they wouldn't fit in the context. Did he not use .... what do you call it; mind suddenly vacated.... spray; airbrush! That's it, airbrush?
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Roger Dean has long been a favorite of mine. His work is so stylish and has an otherworldly appearance that appeals to me. His record covers are sublime. Back then if you had vinyl albums you had something akin to an art gallery on your shelves. I remember buying the odd album solely because I liked the cover.
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I love his work and like most people it seems, became aware of him through buying vinyl albums back in the day. Spent many an hour gazing at his work whilst listening to Uriah Heep, Yes, Budgie etc. I bemoaned the advent of CD s partly because of the lack of impact the cover designs had but thankfully vinyl is back.
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Yes .. completely agree with the sentiment about the demise of the album cover. There was so much great art on album covers.
I have one of those IKEA frames and have a rotating art show , currently it’s showing Selling England By The Pound by Genesis with a great cover by Betty Swanwick. I think it’s time for a Yes album to replace it.