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The Lexicon of Comicana is a 1980 book by the American cartoonist Mort Walker.It was intended as a tongue-in-cheek look at the devices used by comics cartoonists.In it, Walker invented an international set of symbols called symbolia after researching cartoons around the world (described by the term comicana).
Sun Rising through Vapour is a c.1807 landscape painting by the English artist J.M.W. Turner.Also known by the longer title Sun Rising through Vapour: Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish it depicts a scene on the English coast.
Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.
Rather than the depiction a brilliant sunrise, Light Coming on the Plains is evocative of the sun rising in the sky through ever deepening color washes of indigo blue. [8] In the series, she reflects her ability to design with minimal form and to create harmony using tonal values, or Notan -composition, that she learned through Alon Bemet and ...
'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining"). [a] Helios is often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also ...
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
Christ's Charge to Peter, one of the Raphael Cartoons, c. 1516, a full-size cartoon design for a tapestry. In fine art, a cartoon (from Italian: cartone and Dutch: karton—words describing strong, heavy paper or pasteboard and cognates for carton) is a full-size drawing made on sturdy paper as a design or modello for a painting, stained glass, or tapestry.
Harvey saw McCloud's definition as excluding single-panel cartoons, [124] and objected to McCloud's de-emphasizing verbal elements, insisting "the essential characteristic of comics is the incorporation of verbal content". [110] Aaron Meskin saw McCloud's theories as an artificial attempt to legitimize the place of comics in art history. [103]