Daily Archives: March 21, 2013
Leaves
Leaves is a 36-image folder depicting the botanical beauty of leaves through photography, advertisements and illustration. The wide range of leaves in this folder make it one of the many in the Visual Arts Picture Collection that can be a helpful aid in drawing reference.
Fortune Magazine, November 1949
Photographer: George Tice
Modern Maturity Magazine, October-November 1967
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer, National Geographic Magazine
Hair – Facial
Hair – Facial is a 21-picture subcategory of the Picture Collection’s Hair folder–one of the larger folders in the collection (with over 400 images). This folder focuses on beards, mustaches, eyebrow hair, and the absurdities that can occur throughout.
Life Magazine, September 23rd, 1957
Life Magazine, September 23rd, 1957
Life Magazine, April 24th, 1939
Perspective
The Picture Collection’s Perspective folder currently contains 54 images. Ranging from international cityscapes to fine art photography, these images are sure to help any cartoonist or animator in nailing down those difficult perspective shots, as well as photographers and filmmakers in broadening their eye. The folder contains an array of editorial photographs from magazines (past and present) and even a few ‘magic eye tricks’ and diagrams from psychology books. Overlooked and underestimated–this folder is sure to give your eye some interesting… perspective!
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Sylvia Mangold, “Opposite Corners”, Acrylic on Canvas. June, 1973; 78 x 63 3/4″
Photographer: Bob Coyle
In Today’s Mail — March 21, 2013
The Visual Arts Library has around 400 current periodical subscriptions. Everyday, from all around the world, by way of delivery services private and socialized, at least a few and sometimes a shining heap arrive at 380 2nd Ave..
Following are the covers of two magazines that arrived today. I think are they are sharp.
First, Novum and its World of Graphic Design, a title for which we have holdings dating back to 1950 when it was called Gebrauchsgraphik: International advertising art.
Description taken from page 2 of the magazine:
For the cover of this month’s novum we chose the mold made paper ZERKALL LITHO VI (270 gsm) with 75% cotton. Further information: www.zerkall.com. Marco Bölling realised the motive in letterpress and iris printing www.boelling.com.
Novum, April 2013.
Second, we have School Arts, an art education title that we have going back to 1992. The piece is a product of a high school studio lesson designed and delivered by Caroline Nay. The work itself is by Dan Prach. The lesson is fully explained in the magazine, but involves either a botanical or animal subject, and features contour line drawings transferred onto a base painting. Very sharp.
School Arts, April 2013
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