VISD-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Academic Art, Upper Class, Teller Amendment
13 Oct 2016
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Text and image analysis due next next week october 3rd. Define illustration by asking what makes it work. Speed duo: what makes a successful illustration. Relatable, connect with audience no matter what. Refers to different aspect of cultural hierarchy. Publisher, artists make woodcut, gets paid, publish. You use end grain (harder) instead of the plank. Allows for increase in chemistry of line. Tends to be fairly small, variety of tonal weight. New way of thinking about the vignette: head piece, tail piece. Not an eye witness kind of image. Often based on old prints/ old engravings. Illustrators were asked to do engravings on the basis and characteristics of a photograph. Moving away from the world of line, moving towards the world of tone in the world of a photograph. 140 plates designed by a team of illustrators. Francois boucher most important painter to the king during the time. One press to print, one other press to print removable text.
