Since I sadly was not able to attend trolley night this weekend, I thought I would post up some work of some of my favorite artists.
Takato Yamamoto
I really do not like anime or manga or anything like that in it's original sense. At all. The exception to this however, would have to be Takato Yamamoto. He has some of the most beautiful and intricate ink work with the most delicate washes. The intricacy and attention to detail in his work just makes me drool. One of the most interesting things about Yamamoto's work to me is how simple the overall subject is. This was a statement from an interview with Yamamoto.
"My basic theme is the image of the universe operation that has repeated the circulating generation (life) and dismantlement (death). I express symbolically the image to be a man's
body as the main motif, while taking the image of a plant, an insect, and other various objects."
David D'andrea
A forerunner in the poster design world is David D'andrea. Take any old poster from around the 70's and think of it in a more modern way with some darker imagery and you get D'andrea's work. I own three screen prints of his that are beautiful and which I stare at on a daily basis. I find myself completely pulled into these intricate designs that are so meticulous and time consuming. Seems to be what I spend the majority of my time doing and looking at.
Vania Zouravliov
Vania's work is my all time favorite. If you couldn't already tell, I love the most detailed pen work possible. And Vania captures that. He is so prolific for the amount of detail that goes into each piece. He wears where he is from (Russia) on his sleeve, and it is extremely evident in his work which I think I do with my own work as well. I could drool over this stuff for days. I got his book for Christmas which contains tons of his work. Best present ever.
