If you have a passion, just do it and have fun.
The Race:
On Thursday(2/24/11) our student body had the privilege of meeting three excellent illustrators. I found interesting that they all were illustrators but did worked on a completely different level. The one I was more interested in was Anita Kunz.
Anita Kunz is a Canadian born illustrator who has contributed her skills to magazines such as The New York Times, Rolling Stones, Vanity Fair, several others. Also, she did work for advertising agencies, book publishers and design firms. Kunz has illustrated more than fifty book cover jackets. She teaches at workshops and lectures at universities and institutions. Kunz has received several awards and has some of her in work in museums such as the Norman Rockwell Museum. Others have been place in the Library of Congress and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.. From 2000 to 2003 Anita served on the Board of Directors of the Illustration conference and she was recently named one of the fifty most influential women in Canada by the National Post newspaper.
Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) was an American artist and Nouveau Illustrator. He was the highest paid illustrator of the twentieth century and he was nick named the” Dean of American Designers”. Bradley received his first job when he was 12 as a printer for a weekly newspaper. Later he set up Wayside Press where he was an illustrator, typographer, editor, designer, and press manager. He created his first book titled Bradley: His Book. The book consisted of stories, poems, and sketches. The book was a success and he was financially successful. At the age of 28, Bradley was forced to sell Wayside Press do to stress. Afterward, he continued to work for other companies such as Collier’s Weekly, and William Randolph Hearst’s film division. Bradley also won the highest award for any graphic designer, the AIGA Award in 1954.
Best friend..sorry am not trying to replace her so don’t ask.
I find that when I do art that’s personal to me, I push myself more. I just wish I could transfer those same feelings into everything else I do.
Tamara De Lempicka was a Polish painter and is consider the most famous painter of the Art Deco period. Most of her portrait work seem to appeal to the rich because of her use of bold colors and tones. She was introduced to art at the age of 12. Her mom had her portrait painted by famous artist. When she saw her portrait and didn’t like it. She felt like she could have did a better job. But she made it difficult for the painter because she was constantly moving. To prove herself, she painted a portrait of her sister and was very please with it. That’s when her love for art began. Lempicka’s art style was influenced by her two art teachers, Maurice Denis and Andreé Lhote. With the two styles, she combined post-symbolism with cubism making her the best portrait artist in Paris. 
Sir Edward Burne Jones (1833-1898) was a British illustrator, painter, and designer. He was the former apprentice of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His paintings often had a medieval romantic imagery and with this style, he managed to achieve success. One of his successful paintings was the The Beguiling of Merlin in which he had an exhibition for from 1873 to 1877. As a designer, Jones created 87 stained glass and tapestries pieces for the Kelmscott Press edition of Gregory Chaucer, which is known as one of the world’s finest collection of prints. In 1857, Jones collaborated with William Morris to paint a mural in the Oxford Union. In 1894 he was commissioned to created set and costume designs for the Lyceum Theatre production of King Arthur.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was an American painter and illustrator. He studied at the Art Student league and received his first assignment at the age of 17. He produced over 317 covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell’s success attracted the attention of other major magazine companies such as Life, Judge, and Leslie’s. In 1917, he joined the Navy during World War I, and started working for the camp’s newspaper. Still, he was allowed to work for the Post. After the war, he began working in advertising. In 1941, Rockwell was given his first major show at the Milwaukee Art Institute. Rockwell later received the honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts and the Interfaith Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for his Post cover paining of the Golden Rule.
NC (Newell Convers)Wyeth (1882-1945) was an American artist who began drawing as a child. Through out his childhood, he received training from several schools until the age 20 when he was enrolled into Howard Pyle School for the sessions of 1902. Under Pyle’s teachings, Wyeth began to blossom as an artist. This led to him getting his first illustration assignment within the same year. He was asked to create a cover for The Saturday Evening Post. Later he went on to do more illustrations for other magazines until becoming a contributor to Harpers, McClures, and Scribners. Wyeth graduated from Pyle’s School in 1904, but still continued to use the studio to paint.
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