Correction: Jackson Pollock wasn’t an artist. He was a talentless drunk in the right place at the right time for Peggy Guggenheim to catapult into thumb-your-nose modernism.
The best artists of the 20th and early 21st Centuries were and are illustrators.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I came to that same conclusion a while back and used to eagerly search out those old illustration showcase yearbooks to drown in the oceans of talent they contain. Where is that stuff collected and presented now?
Stevie, the brilliant illustrators like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish, inspired by the Pre-Rafaelites, later paved the way for illustrators like Leyendecker and Rockwell, who went on to bless us with the likes of Frank Frazetta, my husband’s greatest hero, and the extraordinary Spanish illustrators like Sanjulian. And remember all those astonishing editorial and movie poster guys?
When we were at the apex of our careers, my husband’s work was always featured in a two-page spread in Artist’s Showcase (paid for by his agency, of course). I do miss getting those yearly compendiums of talent, but at least Facebook has “old illustration” groups one can join. “Old Fantasy Art” is a great one!
Graphic novels in the 90s and aughts are also great resources. “Batman” never looked better or more soaringly imaginative – and it wasn’t done using Photoshop. Oh, but look what you made me do! I could talk about this for days! Thank YOU!
Hugh Bryant
4 months ago
Taylor Swift is undeniably talented – although perhaps a little too prone to self-pity, but simply can’t survive comparison with the creator of Hejira who was not only an extraordinarily self-aware artist, but also a significant musical innovator.
Yes, I was thinking the same. Joni also wrote her music, not just the words. Taylor swift co-writes a lot of stuff. Still, she’s a fine singer and does play a couple of instruments so she stands head and shoulders above many of her contemporaries.
Alexander Morrison
4 months ago
Nolan is British – a product of Haileybury and UCL – and while obviously his films owe a lot to Hollywood budgets and production values, his aesthetic preferences, themes and working practices are in many ways very un-American, as this excellent profile from the New Statesman makes clear: https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2023/07/christopher-nolan-conservative-parallels
He has dual nationality as his mother is American.
Andrew Wise
4 months ago
So the fix for cultural change is for governments to legislate in favour of the old and the detriment of the new.
Radio didn’t kill the newspaper industry, tv didn’t kill the movie and theatre industries…. Although they all changed and adapted
Sophy T
4 months ago
Subscribe to Viki and watch Korean drama which is vastly superior to anything made in the West. There are also plenty of excellent K dramas on Netflix.
ALLEN MORRIS-YATES
4 months ago
This is an odd article, living in the past. It seems to me that there is an enormous flowering of really interesting music and writing in all sorts of unseen niches. Within the genres of music and writing that I am interested in, I now find an abundance of excellence. I think what the author of the article is witnessing is the fragmentation of what was formerly a relatively homogenous marketplace with very few distribution channels. So sure, there are fewer major phenomena that grab the majority of attention, but so what? Go digging, listen to and read new things. What about the long form story telling that the streamers have now enabled? And has the author actually had a close look at what is happening in the video gaming world and what is now being done with the engines that underpin modern games. The way that I and most everyone I know now find and engage with media is really quite different to how any of us did even twenty years ago, and is certainly completely different to my world as a teenager in the sixties.
immaculate grid presents a captivating game that challenges baseball aficionados to test their knowledge. It’s a unique adaptation of the popular word game, Wordle, designed exclusively for MLB enthusiasts.
Correction: Jackson Pollock wasn’t an artist. He was a talentless drunk in the right place at the right time for Peggy Guggenheim to catapult into thumb-your-nose modernism.
The best artists of the 20th and early 21st Centuries were and are illustrators.
Be fair, Pollock had one good idea for the design of wrapping paper.
My husband’s studio drop cloths contain prettier colors and greater coherence. And he isn’t drunk when he paints.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I came to that same conclusion a while back and used to eagerly search out those old illustration showcase yearbooks to drown in the oceans of talent they contain. Where is that stuff collected and presented now?
Stevie, the brilliant illustrators like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish, inspired by the Pre-Rafaelites, later paved the way for illustrators like Leyendecker and Rockwell, who went on to bless us with the likes of Frank Frazetta, my husband’s greatest hero, and the extraordinary Spanish illustrators like Sanjulian. And remember all those astonishing editorial and movie poster guys?
When we were at the apex of our careers, my husband’s work was always featured in a two-page spread in Artist’s Showcase (paid for by his agency, of course). I do miss getting those yearly compendiums of talent, but at least Facebook has “old illustration” groups one can join. “Old Fantasy Art” is a great one!
Graphic novels in the 90s and aughts are also great resources. “Batman” never looked better or more soaringly imaginative – and it wasn’t done using Photoshop. Oh, but look what you made me do! I could talk about this for days! Thank YOU!
Taylor Swift is undeniably talented – although perhaps a little too prone to self-pity, but simply can’t survive comparison with the creator of Hejira who was not only an extraordinarily self-aware artist, but also a significant musical innovator.
Yes, I was thinking the same. Joni also wrote her music, not just the words. Taylor swift co-writes a lot of stuff. Still, she’s a fine singer and does play a couple of instruments so she stands head and shoulders above many of her contemporaries.
Nolan is British – a product of Haileybury and UCL – and while obviously his films owe a lot to Hollywood budgets and production values, his aesthetic preferences, themes and working practices are in many ways very un-American, as this excellent profile from the New Statesman makes clear: https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2023/07/christopher-nolan-conservative-parallels
He has dual nationality as his mother is American.
So the fix for cultural change is for governments to legislate in favour of the old and the detriment of the new.
Radio didn’t kill the newspaper industry, tv didn’t kill the movie and theatre industries…. Although they all changed and adapted
Subscribe to Viki and watch Korean drama which is vastly superior to anything made in the West. There are also plenty of excellent K dramas on Netflix.
This is an odd article, living in the past. It seems to me that there is an enormous flowering of really interesting music and writing in all sorts of unseen niches. Within the genres of music and writing that I am interested in, I now find an abundance of excellence. I think what the author of the article is witnessing is the fragmentation of what was formerly a relatively homogenous marketplace with very few distribution channels. So sure, there are fewer major phenomena that grab the majority of attention, but so what? Go digging, listen to and read new things. What about the long form story telling that the streamers have now enabled? And has the author actually had a close look at what is happening in the video gaming world and what is now being done with the engines that underpin modern games. The way that I and most everyone I know now find and engage with media is really quite different to how any of us did even twenty years ago, and is certainly completely different to my world as a teenager in the sixties.
immaculate grid presents a captivating game that challenges baseball aficionados to test their knowledge. It’s a unique adaptation of the popular word game, Wordle, designed exclusively for MLB enthusiasts.