http://are2.tumblr.com/post/36673966912/hardsuit-ax-3-space-suit-design-1977
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 01:57PM.
http://are2.tumblr.com/post/36673966912/hardsuit-ax-3-space-suit-design-1977
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 01:57PM.
http://www.obitoftheday.com/post/36668732708/edwardaobara
Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:00PM.
http://textbookexample.tumblr.com/post/36597294183/an-illustrated-collection-of-iconic-mid-century
Posted on November 26, 2012 at 12:53PM.
The American caricaturist William Charles drew several prints around the War of 1812. This satire focuses on King George III attempting to restore lost ships after battles on the Great Lakes in 1813 and 1814. Charles was clearly aware of his British contemporaries Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, and George Cruikshank, who each drew satires using the image of a politician as baker. Here are a few other caricatures with the same iconography.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), High Fun for John Bull or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift, 1798. Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Class of 1895. Graphic Arts Collection GC112
The values are carefully grouped and controlled. In the left side of the jacket, for instance, he didn’t overdefine the modeling on the light side, allowing all those light tones to group together into a larger shape.
The darks are also grouped, so that the face in shadow joins at the chin with the dark shirt-front, and the knuckles link up with the blue cloth and the legs into a bigger unit.
The study is also a great example of the “windmill principle,” a tonal scheme where the figure/ground relationship includes all four basic possibilities:
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http://ratak-monodosico.tumblr.com/post/36528876054/you-by-urs-fischer
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 03:24PM.
http://ratak-monodosico.tumblr.com/post/36563134796
Posted on November 25, 2012 at 10:33PM.
http://otakugangsta.com/post/36397089920
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 10:19PM.