tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12189014.post1931633970323300256..comments2024-03-28T22:57:07.128-04:00Comments on ILLUSTRATION ART: ART THAT IS "SUI GENERIS" (part 1)David Apatoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11293486149879229016noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12189014.post-45126288424123032912007-04-18T10:14:00.000-04:002007-04-18T10:14:00.000-04:00How curious you mentioned Albright's work in WW1. ...How curious you mentioned Albright's work in WW1. Recently I've read this article<BR/>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2007/february/mask.php<BR/> and wondered about the artistic (and moral) challenge these artists must have endured. Ok, admittedly they're not illustrators, but...Diego Fernettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01133741806993347360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12189014.post-3434496906240275632007-04-16T01:52:00.000-04:002007-04-16T01:52:00.000-04:00Thanks, Nicholas. You're right, all of Albright's...Thanks, Nicholas. You're right, all of Albright's work has the same dark vision. Perhaps that's a result of his service as a medical illustrator in World War I, where he recorded the hideous injuries of soldiers who had been gassed on the front lines. <BR/><BR/>Of course, it could also be the result of his marriage to an heiress...David Apatoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293486149879229016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12189014.post-5289163354227817522007-04-16T00:18:00.000-04:002007-04-16T00:18:00.000-04:00That is one scary painting....I've loved Albright'...That is one scary painting....<BR/>I've loved Albright's stuff since my mom introduced me to it when I was eight or so. Almost all of his work has the same obsessive level of detail and fascination with physical decay. It could easily slide into adolescent angst, but somehow it never seems to do so.<BR/><BR/>A couple of fun facts about him:<BR/>He never had to sell any of his work, since he was married to a newspaper heiress. Pity there aren't more of them to go 'round.<BR/><BR/>He was the painter who created the creepy portrait used in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), directed by Albert Lewin.Nick Jainschigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05605536593668106140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12189014.post-67825008931374899962007-04-13T18:10:00.000-04:002007-04-13T18:10:00.000-04:00I never seen it there. I must go and look! pcpI never seen it there. I must go and look! pcpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com