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In 1976, comic book artist Jack Kirby and his wife Roz presented Paul and Linda McCartney with a gift of this original drawing while backstage at the Los Angeles Forum, when the couple were touring with their band Wings. The pencil drawing is inscribed:
To Paul & Linda
Best Wishes
Jack Kirby
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At first glance, Old Fashioned (2001), a delicate ink-on-paper work by artist Mark Dean Veca, looks like something you’d find in your grandmother’s parlor: a vintage wallpaper design done in the classic French toile de Jouy style. But as your eyes linger on the piece, the façade of refinement starts to fall apart—in the most delightfully subversive way.
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We are currently in a state of rapid turbulence and a digital system where people wish to add a touch of creativity, mindfulness, and humanity to their lives. Nude drawing (also known as Life drawing) stands as one such additional whisper that captivates both artists and art lovers — it is the purest way of drawing the human body in all its complete actualities.
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In an effort to create an anonymous Self-Portrait (1923), artist Charles Sheeler (1883 – 1965) portrays himself as a barely perceptible, shadowy presents, reflected in a window left of center. Positioned in front of him is a telephone, a modern technology at the time, rendered with meticulous detail emphasizing its sleek, industrial design, which functions is a substitute or surrogate self.
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Modular Man Illustration Circa 1955 (Photo By Gail)
In 1945, the architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) introduced the Modulor, a proportional system for design intended to function as “a harmonious measure to the human scale” and illustrated by a 5-foot-9-inches tall silhouette, drawn in an active posture with one arm raised.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Le Corbusier, The Modulor Man