Let There Be Art

Here’s an intricate collage-style illustration on the history of art. This was for an art book. I liked the idea of taking a different approach to other art encyclopedias, and decided to have some fun. I went ahead and designed a cinema interior, and placed cutouts from famous paintings, mosaics, and vases betweens the seats in such a way so as to suggest a real audience. You’ll recognize the film being shown, I’m sure ;-)
Note how the clippings in the styles of Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Piet Mondrian are not taken from these pop artists’ actual works, but instead I created them myself by mimicking their respective drawing styles.

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Fabulous!
By Shelley on 11.21.09 10:20 pm
Reminds me of that old film shown when I was at art school. Images from the entire history of Western art flashed by to the music of Mason Williams’Classical Gas’ and the title was something like “3000 Years of Art in Three Minutes”. Here is a clip made on the 40th anniversary of its debut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQh7F_1mbk
By Ilene Winn-Lederer on 11.22.09 4:02 am
thanks so much for your wonderful comment, ilene – that video is great, it’s killer to be shown 3000 years of art within a few minutes’ time. thanks so much for pointing me to this!
By Oliver on 11.22.09 11:40 am
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