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Inspiration From Artists Week 65 Featuring Artists : Dean Cornwall and Frans Masereel .
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I think I will add a week where we can post the artwork from comics that we so admired and collected kids if you guys are in agreement. The sketch of the young woman is super just look at the muscle tone etc for me it demonstrates that to be able to sketch well certainly benefits your paintings .
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Well, first - thanks to Jenny; I discovered that very site this evening, and hope to be able to download the comic when my subscription to it is confirmed. Fingers crossed.
And second to the mural Lew posted - very much like the work of Sir Frank Brangwyn, whose large murals are on view at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea (and many other places). His was not a life devoid of controversy, be it said; but then, the best lives usually are pock-marked by controversy - he'd be worth a thread of his own.
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There were DC comics, Fleetway comics, eg The Thriller Library - including series of stories on Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Captain Blood, Rob Roy, brilliantly illustrated, and of course Classics Illustrated - a great version of Christmas Carol, for instance. Many of the artists (and adapters/writers) were not properly or fully credited - but some were, and can be found through diligent research; which I have, to be honest, no burning desire to underttake. Nonetheless, should there be an enthusiast on the strength, this would be a subject of huge scope, much nostalgia, and a rediscovery of good story-telling and even better artwork.
Because some, not all, of these publications were cheaply produced and sold for around 10p per issue, they were less appreciated at the time than they should have been. Hardly comics, there were also substantial magazines for children and young adults: Look and Learn, and Knowledge (a very prestigious and rather expensive publication). From the Topper and the Beano at one end all the way to Knowledge on the other, with the Eagle occupying an honourable place, I think we were a lot luckier than screen-addicted kids today; although - probably, I would think that.
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Some great pics Dixie, I like his technique very much.
(By the way, the first pic above...the boy with the ball...was painted by J.C. Leyendecker an American illustrator. It was the cover for a 1914 Saturday Evening Post Magazine issue, and the painting recently sold for a world record price for this artist. Over 4 million dollars. He was from the Art Deco era...a favourite era of mine. It's confusing with these website, you're looking at one artists work and they bung in somebody else's...most likely the web site got it wrong.)
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by Lewis Cooper
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Frans Masereel 1889 - x 1972: was a Belgian pan inter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France. He is known especially for his woodcuts which focused mainly on political and social issues such as war and capitalism.
Aged 18 he began to study at the Ecole- des Beaux- Arts in the class of Jean Delvin.
In 1911 Masereel settled in Paris for four years and then emigrated to Switzerland, where he worked as a graphic artist for journals and magazines.
Information from Wikipedia.
