Classic Tuesday Inspiration.. Sargent

Always Sargent... Enjoy. Tony Curanaj introduced me to the drawings John Singer Sargent about a decade ago, via his epic collection of coffee table books. I later learned that Sargent has served as an inspiration to many great animators. Congratulations Tony and Angie! Wish I could have been there bro.

Classic Tuesday Inspiration.. Bernini

A real person actually created these.. in marble nonetheless.. enjoy.

Classic Tuesday Inspiration.. Rubens..

"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage".

Classic Tuesday Inspiration: Egon Schiele..

Adding a bit of the modern into Classical Tuesdays. Schiele is one of my favorites..

Neo-Classical Tuesday Inspiration: John William Godward..

I've long been a fan of the beautiful woman depicted by English painter John William Godward. The sheer beauty of these mostly nude figures is astounding, and totally alluring.  The power of the female form is something my brain can't handle.. and that form is exemplified here.

 

Above is my all time favroite Godward, "A Pompeian Bath".. painted in 1895. As the story goes, Godward moved to Italy with one of his models, abandoning his family. His family disowned him, and there is literally no photo of him in existance... he probably shouldn't have chosen such hot models to paint.

Godward committed suicide at the age of 61, the day after being given the title "Barron" (whatever that means.. brits are so weird), in his suicide note, he famously stated that there wasn't room enough in the world for him and Picasso.

Friday Inspiration: Albert Dorne..

As an animator, you are most likely very familiar with Albert Dorne.  His effortless illustration style is intoxicating. Enjoy.  Here's a collection of Flcker that does justice to his wide variety of commercial illustration, way more depth than I can add on this blog.

Albert Dorne is a true artist success story.  he was born in the slums of NYC, and had miserable health problems. He dropped out of school to support his family with jobs such as managing a news stand and being as an office boy, as well as a short boxing career. Then he began drawing for the advertising industry. His illustrations started appearing in such magazines as Life, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post and was very famous in the field of advertising by 1943.

In 1948 Dorne conceived the idea of a correspondence school for art, and recruited eleven other well-known artists and illustrators, including Norman Rockwell, to found the Famous Artists School.

Friday Inspiration: Egon Schiele..

Sorry for the hiatus everybody! Thanks to Bill for holding down the fort.  On my triumphant return, I wanted to share some Schiele sketches I've been looking at a lot lately for inspiration.  The Austrian Expressionist (who died at the age of 28) , was a master expressive poses and particularly of drawing hands. Once you get into Schiele, there's no going back.  Enjoy.

Classic Tuesday.. Edgar Degas

I've always thought it was a shame that Degas is known primarily for his dancers.. There's just so many other great contexts. His portraits have always been a great source of inspiration, my favorite being his profile portrait of beggar 1857. Enjoy.

Classic Tuesday Inspiration: John Singer Sargent Drawings..

Haven't done a tues inspiration in a long time..  Enjoy.

Classic Tuesday Inspiration: More Bernini..

My last Bernini post got a good reaction, so here's some more for you.. Details of some of his marble sculptures. I can't get enough of looking at these pieces.. it's difficult to believe that they were created by the hands of a mere human.  Sculpture fascinates me, especially in mediums like marble. I can get my head around working in wax and casting bronze.. got it.. but marble seems so final and unforgiving..

Classic Tuesday Inspiration: Raffaele Monti and Giovanni Strazza..

 Some artwork is too beautiful for words..  all we know is that we have been brought to an amazing place simply by looking at it. Raffaele Monti's veiled marble sculptures bring us to such a place.

Similar treatment of the veil can be found in Giovanni Strazza's Veiled Virgin below.

Classic Tuesday Inspiration: Edgar Degas Drawings..

"No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and of the study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing."-Degas

 Thought I would post my collection of Degas drawings I've been putting together for my drawing class. There's some good ones in here, it was difficult to find drawings NOT of dancers (over half of his work was of ballet dancers).

Two images above, drawings of Manet, good friend, legend has it they met while copying the same Velazquez painting in the Louvre. (not to be confused with Monet, whom he disliked.. also on the dislike list was Renoir.)

 

Degas never married, and spent the last years of his life, nearly blind, restlessly wandering the streets of Paris before dying in 1917.  Kind of like Bill:)  just kidding, Bills eyesight is fine.