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“Vogelmen Diaries” (Trailer by Stefan Heller)
The Trailer…
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Graphism: Michaux-Maciunas-Diagrammatik (MePri-News 11/12/08 – 20/10/12)(MePri-News 11/12/08 – 20/10/12)
11/12/08 Henri Michaux on UbuWeb This contribution on the famous Belgique draughtsman includes the astonishing document “images du monde visionnaire”, an educational film by Henri Michaux and Eric Duvivier which was produced in 1963 by the film department of Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz “in order to demonstrate the hallucinogenic effects of mescaline and hashish. ———————————————————————————————————————– […]
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“Confound the Line” – Photo-Graphics of the New School of Wood Engraving (Exhibition)
“With the new school nothing is theoretically impossible, and no means are illegitimate.” (Frederick Juengling, 1880) Wood engraving, actually a product of early English Romanticism, experienced its breakthrough with the rise of the illustrated press. Its phenomenal success owed to its hybridity, for it combined the fine mechanical quality of copper engraving with the advantages […]
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Gabriel Campanario and the Art of Locational Sketching (MePri- News)
Gabriel Campanario is one of the most distinguished and prolific contemporary special artists, combining visual and written journalism. His career spans two decades, working for newspapers in Barcelona, Lisbon, California, and Virginia. At present he is working as a staff artist, at The Seattle Times, where he is publishing the very lively weekly column “Seattle […]
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From Marx to Ensor: The Revolution Artist Wilhelm Kleinenbroich (1812 – 95)
It really cannot be said that the Kölnische Stadtmuseum is concerned too little with one of its most significant artistic treasures, the oeuvre of the Rhenish historical painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Kleinebroich, quite to the contrary. In 1999 the brilliant monograph “Die Revolution des Malers Kleinenbroich” by Bonn-based historian Horst Heidermann was published there. […]
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Hubert Herkomer as a pioneer of artistic advertisment (MePri-News)
Hubert Herkomer (1849–1914) was a main exponent of the British social realism in the nineteenh centruy and the central artistic role model of young Vincent van Gogh. He started his career as a special artist for the illustrated weekly The Graphic and finally ascended to the rank of a successful society painter. Besides he was […]
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Approaches between Palestine and Rio de Janeiro. Some reflections on comic journalism.
Since I read Joe Sacco’s Palestine Special Edition, and its preface entitled ‘Some reflections on Palestine’, in which the author explains the process of producing the masterpiece of his youth, I started to wonder about the relation between Sacco’s comics and my own work. But there is another circumstance. When Sacco came to Brazil in […]
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“The technical drawing was the answer” – August Greß, the engineer behind Marcel Duchamp´s Large Glass
The three months which 25-year-old Marcel Duchamp spent in Munich from the end of June to the end of September 1912 are judged by researchers as both the most enigmatic and momentous episode in the artist’s career. In a lecture from 1964, Duchamp himself called his stay in the Bavarian capital, which was a culturally […]
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Tiger Hunting with the Shah. A Golden Era of Visual Journalism.
Daniel Zalkus, a renowned illustrator, who himself works as an artist-reporter from time to time, has put together an excellent commented series of historical drawings on-the–spot, representing a golden era of graphic reportage in the American magazines from the 1950’s and 60’s. Zalkus´ series Visual Journalism. The Artist as Reporter was publised recently in five […]
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Corrupted States of Plutocracy. W.J. Linton´s North America – Cycle.
Lintoniana IX God send the Indian luck! / Success to the buck! / May his scalps be many and quick! / Guard his war, O Lord! through the thick / Of his foes! Give him luck! (W.J. Linton, 1871) In 1866 William James Linton moved to New York because, as he confessed in his autobiography, […]