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AUGUST 2008
DR. SEUSS Exhibit
Showroom Hours
Wed. - Thurs. - Fri. 10:30 - 5
Saturday 10:30 - 4
Other times visit by appointment
WEB inquiries or
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Original illustration art comes in many forms and is used in many ways. Classic illustrations were used to enliven covers and insides of both books and magazines. Illustrators interpreted themes on canvas and paper while transporting readers to places and adventures never before imagined. Artwork suggested what characters looked like and how the surroundings appeared; it would be impossible to think of stories without also envisioning the artist’s suggestions. Story and image became one.
Before television and the widespread availability of photography, it was the skilled illustrator who was the fashion trendsetter of the day. The beautiful women drawn by Charles Dana Gibson (“The Gibson Girls”) or Howard Chandler Christy and the stylish men portrayed by J.C. Leyendecker were to their contemporary fashion worlds what the electronic media is to “cool” trends today. Other illustrators reflected society in their art. Norman Rockwell was a storyteller beyond reproach in his “Saturday Evening Post” covers. He engaged readers with a visual language with which they could identify. His career-long theme was the celebration of American values and virtues portrayed in a hopeful culture threatened by encroaching modernity. His characters are timeless.
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Magazine covers, product and travel advertisements, calendar illustrations, and patriotic posters rallying a war-weary nation all were avenues reserved for the American illustrator as a mass communicator, storyteller, and image-maker. (The Art-cade Gallery also has a representative selection of vintage wartime posters by America’s favorite illustrators; see “American Memories” page on this web site.)
Today illustration art plays a less important role in publications since the advent of computer graphics and the ability to rework photographs. But there is a continuing output of good artwork by new and talented artists to illustrate magazine and book articles – only now it is “TV Guide,” “Time,” and the “Smithsonian” rather than “Harper’s,” “Colliers,” and “Scribner’s.” But these refreshing illustrations still capture a moment to remember in a most decorative way.
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Website ©2008 King’s Court Communications, Inc.
All displayed artwork © by artist and/or publisher
and is for illustration and promotion purposes only.
All rights reserved. None may be used, in whole or
in part, for any other purpose. "Webportfolio" and the
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ILLUSTRATION ART / FINE ART