Haddon Sundblom. Haddon Hubbard "Sunny" Sundblom (June 22, 1899 – March 10, 1976) was a Finnish[dubious ] illustrator and American artist best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company. Background[edit] Sundblom was born in Muskegon, Michigan to a Swedish-speaking family. His father, Karl Wilhelm Sundblom, came from the farm Norrgårds in the village of Sonboda in Föglö of the Swedish-speaking part of Åland Islands, then part of the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland now Finland, and his mother Karin Andersson was from Sweden. Sundblom studied at the American Academy of Art. Career[edit] Sundblom is best remembered for his advertising work, specifically the Santa Claus advertisements he painted for The Coca-Cola Company in the 1930s.[1] Sundblom's Claus firmly established the larger-than-life, grandfatherly Claus as a key figure in American Christmas imagery. Sundblom also conceived Coke's mascot Sprite Boy who appeared in print ads during the 1940s and 1950s.[5] Notes[edit]
Gil Elvgren. Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980; born Gillette Elvgren) was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow, Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art.[1][2] He was strongly influenced by the early "pretty girl" illustrators, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew Loomis, and Howard Chandler Christy. Other influences included the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle.[3] Biography[edit] Gillette A. Elvgren was born in St.
In 1937, Gil began painting calendar pin-ups for Louis F. Elvgren was a commercial success. See also[edit] Notes[edit] Sources[edit] Martignette, Charles G. and Louis K. External links[edit] J. C. Leyendecker. Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrations, the trade character known as The Arrow Collar Man, and his numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post.[1][2] Between 1896 and 1950, Leyendecker painted more than 400 magazine covers. During the Golden Age of American Illustration, for The Saturday Evening Post alone, J. C. Leyendecker produced 322 covers, as well as many advertisement illustrations for its interior pages. No other artist, until the arrival of Norman Rockwell two decades later, was so solidly identified with one publication.[3] Leyendecker "virtually invented the whole idea of modern magazine design.
Early life[edit] Joseph Christian Leyendecker ('J. In 1882, the Leyendecker family immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, where Elizabeth's uncle had founded the successful McAvoy Brewing Company. Career[edit] Legacy[edit] 50 Great Concept, Animation, and Game Development Artists. John Mollo. John Mollo (born 18 March 1931 in London, England) is a British costume designer and book author, most known for his Oscar-winning costume design for the Star Wars film series.
He is the older brother of Andrew Mollo and Boris Mollo. Biography[edit] Costume design[edit] Films[edit] Television[edit] Awards and nominations[edit] Publications[edit] Military Fashion1991 reprint of: Uniforms of The American Revolution in Color. References[edit] External links[edit] John Mollo at the Internet Movie Database. Goodbrush. Daniel Gerhartz - Oil Paintings and Portraits. Mead Schaeffer. Mead Schaeffer illustration for The Black Buccaneer by Stephen Meader, published in 1920 Mead Schaeffer (July 15, 1898 – November 6, 1980) was an American illustrator active from the early to middle twentieth century. Schaeffer was born in Freedom Plains, New York, in 1898, the son of Presbyterian preacher Charles Schaeffer and his wife Minnie. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. After completing high school, he enrolled in the Pratt Institute in 1916.
At Pratt his teachers included Harvey Dunn and Charles Chapman. Dunn critiqued many of Schaeffer's early projects. While a student at Pratt, Schaeffer illustrated the first of seven 'Golden Boy' books written by L. In 1922, at age 24, he was hired to illustrate a series of classic novels for publisher Dodd Mead. In retirement, Schaeffer lived in Vermont, where Rockwell was a neighbor.[1] Schaeffer suffered a heart attack and died in New York City on November 6, 1980.[5] ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Mead Schaeffer: American Imagist". Richard Schmid. He's been called a "painter's painter" and an "artist's artist"[2] His more than 3,000 paintings have earned him both critical and commercial success. His works are highly sought after by collectors.[3] His book "Alla Prima" is considered one of the most comprehensive instructional art books on the market[4] and was recently reissued as "Alla Prima II: Everything I Know About Painting, and More.
Early Influences[edit] Richard Schmid's earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Mosby, a graduate of the Belgian Royal Academy in Brussels and the Superior Institute in Antwerp, was a technical expert on European and American realism.
Awards/Distinctions[edit] 2014 - Richard Schmid Global Card Celebration. References[edit] Gustav Klimt. Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger contemporary Egon Schiele.
Life and work[edit] Early life[edit] Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls. Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule), where he studied architectural painting until 1883. During this period Klimt fathered at least fourteen children.[8] Vienna secession years[edit] Folios[edit] Iain McCaig: The Art of Visual Storytelling. Thomas Moran - The complete works. Hudson River School. Overview[edit] Neither the originator of the term Hudson River School nor its first published use has been fixed with certainty. The term is thought to have originated with the New York Tribune art critic Clarence Cook or the landscape painter Homer Dodge Martin.[1] As originally used, the term was meant disparagingly, as the work so labeled had gone out of favor after the plein-air Barbizon School had come into vogue among American patrons and collectors.
Hudson River School paintings reflect three themes of America in the 19th century: discovery, exploration, and settlement. The paintings also depict the American landscape as a pastoral setting, where human beings and nature coexist peacefully. While the elements of the paintings were rendered realistically, many of the scenes were composed as a synthesis of multiple scenes or natural images observed by the artists. A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning, by Thomas Cole, Brooklyn Museum of Art Notes. George Pearse Ennis Auction Results - George Pearse Ennis on artnet. Part 1: Digital Environment Painting with Noah Bradley.
Théodore Rousseau. Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 – December 22, 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school. Life[edit] Youth[edit] He was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family. At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. Although his father regretted the decision at first, he became reconciled to his son forsaking business, and throughout the artist's career (for he survived his son) was a sympathizer with him in all his conflicts with the Paris Salon authorities.
He had exhibited six works in the Salons of 1831, 1833, 1834 and 1835, but in 1836 his great work Paysage du Jura [La descente des vaches] was rejected by the Salon jury. Barbizon and maturity[edit] Until this period Rousseau had lived only occasionally at Barbizon, but in 1848 he took up his residence in the forest village, and spent most of his remaining days in the vicinity. This painting by Rousseau shows the effects of frost on the sloping terrain.[3] The Walters Art Museum. Work[edit] John Singer Sargent. John Singer Sargent (/ˈsɑrdʒənt/; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.[1][2] During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. His parents were American, but he was trained in Paris prior to moving to London. Sargent enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, although not without controversy and some critical reservation; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his "Portrait of Madame X", was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but it resulted in scandal instead. Early life[edit] At thirteen, his mother reported that John "sketches quite nicely, & has a remarkably quick and correct eye. Training[edit] Early career[edit]
Art movement. An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde. Concept[edit] According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the period of time corresponding to modern art.[1] The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed approximately half-way through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art.
Also during the period of time referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the visual arts. 19th- and 20th-century art movements[edit]