Milton Glaser had guts. Here is his unconventional drawing of Count Basie.
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Some are clever, some are colorful, some are funny, some are sensitive. Each is excellent in its own way; but only Glaser had the audacity to turn the piano over to achieve this bold, flat design. It takes a lot of design muscle to lift a piano.
I love this immense paw, laid down wet.
Glaser was first and foremost a designer, and over a long, long career he kept flipping pianos upside down. Gotta admire that.
I like your lifting pianos take on this David, but the treatment used here would have been better applied to someone like McCoy Tyner, a heavy-handed, aggressive player, rather than Basie whose trademark style was delicate, sparse and elegant.
ReplyDeleteYou're right it takes guts to make a hand that way.
ReplyDeleteThe comical heft of the figure looks influenced by Robert Riggs, a ghost in Glaser's work I've detected before.
ReplyDeleteGlaser's lovely signature, loose technique, and the piece's graphic design make this worth the price of admission.
From the face and body, I wouldn't have guessed Basie. Also Basie didn't play the piano with his feet.
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ReplyDeleteIt's regarding Mr.Leonard Starr's works ..
ReplyDeletehow ballsy you have to be to interpret a piano that way. just letting the figure makes us believe without a doubt that that black simple shape is a piano.
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