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Codex Optica: An Epic Visual Poem In Three Parts by Paul
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Rousseau Reconstructed by Paul
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Renoir Reconstructed by Paul
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RembrandtReconstructed by Paul
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Monet Reconstructed by Paul
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Da Vinci Reconstructed by Paul
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BoschReconstructed by Paul
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Van Gogh Reconstructed by Paul
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I’ve just published a series of art books entitled Reconstructed featuring pixelated abstractions of the works of Hieronymus Bosch,Leonardo da Vinci,Rembrandt,Johannes Vermeer,Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Vincent Van Gogh,Paul Cézanne, and Henri Rousseau. I’m really happy with how these turned out. You can get them in softcover or as pdf downloads from the publisher, Anidian, or in softcover at Amazon.com.
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Credit: Cover art of Larry Fagin (New York, USA, 1937-2017) in collaboration with George Schneeman (Minnesota/New York, USA, 1934-2009). Rhymes of a Jerk. First edition artist’s book, undated, on sale from Derringer Books (Avon, Connecticut, USA) and seen at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair @abaararebooks. Notice the canine representation.
Book art created for my Illustration exam back in January 2021.
The proportions of the figures are intentionally weird because our teacher asked us to be very faithful to the pareidolia pictures that inspired each one of them.
A video with a focus on its details can be watched here.
If you like my art, you can find it also here.
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吴达立 x 美丽花绘本
关于绘本和创作点滴。即将通过美丽花绘本平台推出《外面的外面的外面》绘本，敬请关注
The Belly of the Beast. 2017
The whole book work is coloured black entirely by hand, save for a single drawing. Inspired by Perrault’s version of “Little Red Riding-Hood,” in which the young heroine is not saved by the woodcutter and instead dies inside the wolf. The cut-outs mimic a ‘stomach’ in which the figure will lie when the book is closed, trapped in darkness.
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The Pocketbook of Love
Mouna Kalla-Sacranie (2016)This is a handmade, hand-bound, handbook, made with the intention of capturing the essence of what love - in all its many forms - can feel like.
The idea for this handbook came to me a few months ago, when I came across this post in which by poet/writer Naveed Khan ( @navk ) was asked to describe love - without using the word love. I was so moved after reading his descriptions, I felt compelled to ask him if he would allow me to illustrate his words. He said yes, and so the Pocketbook of Love was born.He broke his definition of love into the following six pairs which constitute the ‘chapters’ of this book:
1. warmth and luminescence
2. comfort and compassion
3. trust and empathy
4. support and security
5. passion and affection
6. nostalgia and longing.To see each page in more detail, click here
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The Pocketbook of Love
Mouna Kalla-Sacranie (2016)This is a handmade, hand-bound, handbook, made with the intention of capturing the essence of what love - in all its many forms - can feel like.
The idea for this handbook came to me a few months ago, when I came across this post in which by poet/writer Naveed Khan ( @navk ) was asked to describe love - without using the word love. I was so moved after reading his descriptions, I felt compelled to ask him if he would allow me to illustrate his words. He said yes, and so the Pocketbook of Love was born.He broke his definition of love into the following six pairs which constitute the ‘chapters’ of this book:
1. warmth and luminescence
2. comfort and compassion
3. trust and empathy
4. support and security
5. passion and affection
6. nostalgia and longing.To see each page in more detail, click here
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Sweet Grass : My Place
Printmaker and book artist CB Sherlock created Sweet Grass : My Place in 2010 in Minneapolis, MN. Sherlock creates small edition artist books and one of a kind artwork. The major theme in her work is the connectedness of humanity and the fibers that link us all together. Her work is about the similarities among people rather than the differences.
“Sweet Grass was written after many years of reflecting on belonging to the place our family visits every summer. In 2010, it was printed on handmade Sekishu paper…the accordion structure was bound with grass stalks with hand painted images”
The artist book has letterpress printed text and is housed in a folded vellum box.
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WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: A B C–we print anything–in the cards - Carolee Schneemann, 1977
The cards are from a performance art piece by Carolee Schneemann. The following quote is from LIMA’s website. LIMA is based in The Netherlands and is the international platform for sustainable access to media art. You can read more as well as view a clip from her performance here
“This performance, recorded at De Appel, is completely different from what would be expected from Schneeman. Schneeman herself describes her performance as a ‘lecture with images’. She is sitting up straight, almost formally, in front of a white screen. Her contours are sharply defined against the canvas hanging behind her, due to a bright lamp that is shining on her. She is dispassionately reading out texts that are written on small cards. Blue cards contain conversations between characters a, b, c and d. Fragments from dreams and diaries are written on yellow cards, while red cards contain comments from friends and artists about each other. The differently coloured cards are being read in random order. (However, the video is in black-and-white, so that th colours of the cards remain a secret). Slides are being projected on two screens behind Schneeman; on the left, slides of the texts being read, so that the audience can read along, and in the middle, private, unposed photos of Schneeman and her friends.
Despite the fact that both text and images often convey an intimate tale, the performer Schneeman remains aloof from her own story. She presents it as clinical and detached as if she were reading the ABC. The strength of this performance lies in the constructed scenario form that Schneeman has chosen. Both visually and textually, she takes her story apart to investigate the relationship that comes about between text and image. The text is recorded in, or rather, translated into, a scenario, so that in fact persons come across more as characters. Her monotonous presentation reinforces this detachment, and makes the intimate photos and texts almost implausible. The authenticity of language and images is put to a severe test.”
Her work, Vulva’s Morphia #33, is also in our special collections!
WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Moses and the Shepherd - Poem by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, 1207-1273. Print by Daniel Keleher and Etchings by Mark Beard, 1987
Accordion style book gives the reader multiple ways to engage with the story. A historical poem given new life through artwork, fine printing and unique binding.
Limited Edition 64/100
Find more Artists’ Books in our special collections!
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Paschalis Zervas, To Night. Albedo. Pharmacies.(Νυκτός. Albedo. Φαρμακεία.), ed. “alloglotta”, Athens 2011.
artist’s book • pages 72 • 70 numbered copies
ISBN 978-960-99385-4-9
REFERENCES:
The stop-motion photographs of Eadweard Muybridge | a frame from Alain Resnais’s film “Night and fog” | the dead soldier from Paolo Uccello’s painting “The battle of San Romano” | a phrase from Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo” | “The Arcadian shepherds” or “Et in Arcadia ego” of Nicolas Poussin | “Oedipus and Sphinx” of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | the photographs taken by Fanis Papachristopoulos during a performance in the streets of Athens
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Exhibiting as part of Ex Libris / Dundee Literary Festival
University of Dundee, Park Place, Dundee, DD1 4HN
Sunday 23rd October 11.00 - 15.00
Featuring books and book makers of every variety - authors, zines, indie comics, artist books, illustrators, and more. Join us and meet some of Scotland’s innovative independent book creators including:
Ess Publications, Treehouse Comic, Artificial Womb, Tapsalteerie, Superkings, Ryan S. Thompson, Mark Brady, Terrier Studios Limited, Dundee Comics Creative Space, GENERATORprojects, Lore the Tone Press, Thomas Heitler, Robyn Woolston, The Shed Press, Craig Gilbert’s Poetry Books and Novels, Ian Abbott, The Zane Collective, Infinite Greyscale, Maria Stoian, Elizabeth Wein, Becca Clark, The Drouth
https://exlibrisbookfair.wordpress.com
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