Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.[1] His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.
Gorey is typically described as an illustrator. His books may be found in the humor and cartoon sections of major bookstores, but books such as The Object Lesson have earned serious critical respect as works of surrealist art. His experimentation — creating books that were wordless, books that were literally matchbox-sized, pop-up books, books entirely populated by inanimate objects — complicates matters still further. As Gorey told Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe, "Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable." Gorey classified his own work as literary nonsense, the genre made most famous by Lewis Caroll and Edward Lear.
In response to being called gothic, he stated, "If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either."
Legacy:
And of course every great artist will have a legacy that will last for generations. Gorey has become an iconic figure in the goth subculture. Events themed on his works and decorated in his characteristic style are common in the more Victorian-styled elements of the subculture, notably the Edwardian costume balls held annually in San Francisco and Los Angeles, which include performances based on his works. The "Edwardian" in this case refers less to the Edwardian period of history rather than to Gorey, whose characters are depicted as wearing fashion styles ranging from those of the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s.
Director Mark Romanek's music video for the Nine Inch Nails song "The Perfect Drug" was designed specifically to resemble a Gorey book, with familiar Gorey elements including oversized urns, topiary plants and glum, pale characters in full Edwardian costume. Also, Caitlin R. Kiernan has published a short story entitled "A Story for Edward Gorey" (Tales of Pain and Wonder, 2000), which features Gorey's black doll.
A more direct link to Gorey's influence on the music world is evident in The Gorey End, an album recorded in 2003 by The Tiger Lilies and the Kronos Quartet. This album was a collaboration with Gorey, who liked previous work by The Tiger Lillies so much that he sent them a large box of his unpublished works, which were then adapted and turned into songs. Gorey died before hearing the finished album.
In 1976, jazz composer Michael Mantler recorded an album called The Hapless Child (Watt/ECM) with Robert Wyatt,Terje Rypdal, Carla Bley, and Jack DeJohnette It contains musical adaptations of The Sinking Spell, The Object Lesson, The Insect God, The Doubtful Guest, The Remembered Visit, and The Hapless Child. The last three songs also have been published on his 1987 Live album with Jack Bruce Rick Fenn, and Nick Mason.
The opening titles of the PBS series Mystery! are based on Gorey's art, in an animated sequence co-directed by Derek Lamb.
In the last few decades of his life, Gorey merchandise became quite popular, with stuffed dolls, cups, stickers, posters, and other items available at malls around the United States.
In 2007, the Jim Henson Company announced plans to produce a feature film based on The Doubtful Guest to be directed by Brad Peyton. No release date was given and there has been no further information since the announcement.
The Creature Feature song "A Gorey Demise" was inspired by The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
Arika Toriyama is a japanese manga and game artist.He is regarded as one of the artist that changed the history of manga ,his works are very popular and many manga cite as a source of inspiration. These are some example of his works 1) dragon ball 1984 to 1995
2)Dr slump 1980 to 1984
Links to more of his artworks
Sui Ishida (石田 スイ, Ishida Sui), born December 28, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, a Japanese manga artist. Sui Ishida is just his penname nobody knows his real name or how he looks like.( what a shy mangaka) He is famous for his best selling manga 'tokyo ghoul'. ( its about a boy who turned into a ghoul, go read it up. Its good) He also won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award with Tokyo Ghoul. He uses a graphical tablet and paint tool sai for his works. His works tend to look like watercolor which makes it unique and cool. ( he also uses
A drawing he did for the new years. (TOUKA AND KANEKI <3)
(smug eto lmao)
Why I like him☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜) :Tokyo ghoul is amazing. God bless him for making it. I really like his art style and the fact that he uses light colors. His works are close to perfection to me ( the only thing that is keeping it away from perfect is that (((HE HASN'T MADE ART OF ARIMAXHAISE)))) )
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Victor Ortiz G. is the founder of graphic Colombian-based design studio Iconblast, he is a digital artist and illustrator.
Ever since Victor was a kid he has been interested in the arts (drawing, painting etc) but was truly indulged when he saw his brothers graphic design works and thought,"how did they do that?" He then studied graphic design for 5 years hence, Iconblast was born.
The first thing that captivated my eye with Victors' work is the use of colour, the way he is able to contrast the amount of colour in his works is something I wish I am able to do so, being able to see shades of colour blend extremely well is very pleasing to my eyes. Secondly, the detail in his works are precise, it amazes me that digital art can be this detailed and accurate that his works swoons me over.
Victor Ortiz' work is versatile and high quality with full of details as i've stated above, it influences me and inspires me to apply the same with my art work. His works give me a sense of risk, to not be afraid to add TOO MUCH detail because clearly; there is never 'too much'.
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Sebastian Eriksson is an 18-year-old up-and-coming surrealist artist living in Sweden. Not only is his artwork amazing, it's extremely thought-provoking as he adds descriptions of how his pieces relate to his life.
Just like everyone in the world , we are growing and that can be a challenge especially in the teenage years.
What made me pick Sebastian is that the fact that instead of writing the same old mundane plain letters taking about your emotions that you keep inside he chose to express his feelings in a creative way .
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| schizophrenia, insanity, depression or other mental problems |
For instance , this in the piece above, describes a person with psychological problems such as , insanity, depression or other mental problems. His endless screaming makes his own mind eat him up.
AND CHECK OUT HIS AMAZING PENCIL BLENDING , i like how he blends its so well it looks every 3 dimensional and look HOW ALMOST SYMMETRICAL the other faces are to the main face
also ,what i really like about this artwork is that you do not need too much explanation about it , because at a glance you already can feel /imagine what sebastian felt at that time .
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| confused,lost and trapped |
i also really like him because if you noticed(from the photo above ) , the colours of his art work are also very related to his art work , for example the photo above , he used alot of dark colours and dark colours usually represents sadness , death , mystery that is typically associated with the unknown and negative .
another example is the photo immediately below this text . He used alot of blue colours which usually represents depression , melancholy and loneliness
and because of this , it is easier for me to understand the artwork easier and better and through his artworks i can almost feel and connect to what he was feeling when he was creating his artwork .
i also really like how he expresses feelings that a piece of paper and a writing tool cant explain the same way :)))))))
and i really realllllllllyyyyyyyyy like his artwork because im one sad mushroom and i can relate to him and it makes me feel better because atleast i know that im not the only one that is experiencing these feelings and it makes me happy in a way(and it doenst make me feel like a loner ) eventhough his artworks are almost all about sadness and insanity hahaha
ok that was dramatic i'm going to stop now
Most of us probably felt like Sebastian before , but most of us do not have the talent (me) to draw how we feel. It's fascinating to look into the mind of a teenager through his or artwork.
okkaa bye thanks for reading
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Yuta Onoda
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| the way of the warrior |
Yuta Onoda, originally from Japan, is an illustrator / painter based in Toronto, Canada. He has been shaping his art aesthetic through various forms of media, finding new avenues to express himself.
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| wrath |
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| trasition |
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| the tiger mom |
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| change champions |
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| revelation |
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| El capitan |
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| king of spades |
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| confusion |
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| all is mine |
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| happiness of being loved |
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| the mask she wears |
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| domination |
I like the fusion of the new and the old . Modern and traditional kind of art. Most of the works talk about our constantly upgrading and changing world. I think that the meanings behind the works are very relatable to me and i like the play of colours as well as the use of traditional Japanese art style.
