A friend turned me on to this killer WW2 syphilis poster (above). I don't know the artist's name.
Here's a detail (above) of a painting I'm especially fond of, Delacroix's "Orphan in the Graveyard." The girl looks stupid to me but she's portrayed with great nobility as if the artist was saying, "Even a girl like this is a human being and as such she has a divine spark and the potential for greatness."
Here (above) is the whole Delacroix picture. Below is an old drawing by John K where he's trying to out-Woverton Basil Wolverton.
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Eddie! I love your blog! I’ve been catching up with it, listening to a robot speak it while I paint
I'm getting an accelerated education in cartoon history from you people. I used to feel like it was a secret world or something where all the kids were too cool for me. Oh I was so blind!
I love Delacroix, have you read his journals? They’re quite compulsive… he was a temperamental French moody bastard alright, but in a good way… he had all those crazy colour theories all of his own, which I identify with, and he was always badmouthing the snotty repressed Salon lot.
"She may be...a bag of TROUBLE" Hahaha! She's giving me that sultry look and now I'm a little scared. God help any girl that resembled that poster.
Something that always strikes me about the orphan girl in that Delacroix painting is how petite she is. I guess it's the small forehead and gaping mouth that makes her look stupid. Yet her bright eyes and rosy complexion make her look healthy and vibrant. I think she's quite pretty.
As far as the last pic...Boy would I hate to be that guy's dentist. I'd imagine his breath would smell as bad as his skull-faced foreskin hahaha!
Sister Wendy's got nothing on you, Eddie! You should lead a tour at the Norton Simon discussing classic painting. I'd be there.
Man the first posier is BAD ASS i love it !!!
It's amazing to me that back in the Forties, advertisements could be works of Art.
Good God - Delacroix and John K on the same page... amazing!
I love those WWII era posters.. The cartoons from that time were crazy anti jazz pro war propaganda too.. crazy shit..
I see the wages of poverty and abandoment portrayed--hunger, a gaunt face, malnourishment, and a yearing for her lost parents. Idiocy I wouldn't have thought of first...hmmm.
>> It's amazing to me that back in the Forties, advertisements could be works of Art.<<
I agree. The skill was so far out there from what we get today in advertisements, it's crazy.
Cool drawing by John K. It looks like John's take on an early Fleischer cartoon.
>>I see the wages of poverty and abandoment portrayed--hunger, a gaunt face, malnourishment, and a yearing for her lost parents. Idiocy I wouldn't have thought of first...hmmm.<<
Wow! You saw all that without reading about the painting in an art book first? That's quite amazing! How perceptive you are!
Hee hee! The girl at the top looks like Victor Mature in a wig.
Great post.
I'd like to see more posts about your art heroes! It's nice to see guys like Rubens and Delacroix being used to explain cartoon theories, because they are definitely interrelated.
Chloe: I guess you have a Mac because my PC has no comparable program for reading text out loud. I'm envious! Thanks for the tip about Delacroix's diaries. I'll look it up!
Eddie
I love "Mr. Browne" dearly. He's so sweet! A lover of humanity and an altruistic keeper of the Theory comments page! It's very encouraging.
And so very perceptive, too, by golly!
What's YOUR problem, bub? Or is there....a BOOK I can consult. Naff off.
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