Another five remarkable but almost forgotten illustrators who deserve to be better known Heinrich Kley Henry Clive Anne Fish Fortunato Depero Earl Oliver Hurst
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@LEXICOGRAFFER Жыл бұрын
What a rare and wonderful-and consistently excellent-series this is!
@petebeard Жыл бұрын
Hello and many thanks for your comment. It's a great feeling to know the channel is appreciated.
@blank5572 жыл бұрын
So many worlds of wonder! Seeing these works is like discovering a buried treasure full of diverse and spectacular jewels. You are the Indiana Jones of lost illustrations.
@mikeortega60722 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for bringing all this wonderful art and information on these great artists.
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
hello and your comment is much appreciated.
@UBCrazy-wo2us3 жыл бұрын
This is the most relaxing and satisfying series on KZfaq. I could watch this content on loop.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and many thanks for your positive comment. More illustrators to come.
@jeremyacton45693 жыл бұрын
This channel is Much Appreciated for the artistic inspiration and cultural history that it shares.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. It means a lot to me.
@danielperezalbert78763 жыл бұрын
I’m very happy of having found this series. Wonderful images and biographic detail of the artists. Many thanks
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and I'm glad you found my channel. I hope you continue to enjoy the illustrators featured.
@eamonnclabby70673 жыл бұрын
Well done sir, for this in these lockdown days...E
@jasoncoker16253 жыл бұрын
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@sassytoonsball-ruck583 жыл бұрын
Binge watching - fascinating as an amateur illustrator and cartoonist added joy as Art History fan and daughter of a History teacher 🥰
@christopherpearson71333 жыл бұрын
Pete, I am slowly but surely working my way through the series and still have quite a way to go. I am truly thankful to you for taking time and effort to create this fabulously rich and informative collection of videos. It has always saddened me that the work of these tremendously inspired illustrators and designers should be considered a 'secondary art form' unworthy of the attention and praise given to more 'serious', recognised artists. You have achieved a tremendous task in bringing them to a greater audience and judging by the comments I read below your videos I am not the only one who is grateful for your dedication. Thank you.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello again and thanks a lot for your dedication to the cause. I've always been rather annoyed by the patronising attitudes of fine art critics about illustration, when in reality it means a lot more to people than what's hanging in many museums. And although I do get some who seem to go out of their way to nitpick or just be unpleaseant many of the comments - such as yours - are generally very encouraging.
@idaornstein1305 Жыл бұрын
A great series! Love the work shown and the interesting commentary on it.
@petebeard Жыл бұрын
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel content.
@digitalsketchguy3 жыл бұрын
Such an interesting series. This is a class production. Thank you so much.
@tessellatiaartilery8197 Жыл бұрын
Another enjoyable episode, so thank you very much again for your wonderful work. I was interested to learn about Fortunato Depero and Ann Fish not knowing them at all despite being interested/studied the period. I was so impressed by the verve of the line work from the final artist (Hurst), it shows the fruits of persistent, focused drawing practice. Very inspiring!
@petebeard Жыл бұрын
Hello again and many thanks for your continued interest in the channel.
@johnnytoronto10663 жыл бұрын
Wonderful stuff! I'm so glad. I just discovered your channel. You've put a lot of effort into it and I thoroughly appreciate it. THANK YOU!!!
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for the positive response. I hope you'll subscribe if you haven't already.
@greggoreo67386 ай бұрын
',,,gloriously frivolous,,' And that, Sir, is why you are a poetic genius . Respectfully submitted for your consideration Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis
@chipcurry3 жыл бұрын
Wow, superb on all levels. The illustrations told wonderful stories. The music was appropriate, the narration was just enough. Thank you!
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks a lot. Its really motivating to know I'm getting through to viewers.
@gregday51695 жыл бұрын
Another superb effort. Love how you put these together.
@pjlewisful5 жыл бұрын
I totally enjoyed this. I love that vintage ad style.
@petebeard5 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for your positive response. There are quite a few more on the way
@scottanthony62693 жыл бұрын
Nothing is ever to long when it is interesting as those videos are thankyou for Sharing
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks a lot. Sadly there aren't enough other viewers who think so. Average view time seems to be about 50 percent of the video's length.
@eljuli10033 жыл бұрын
That's the kind of art and illustration I really like to see. Thanks for sharing.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks very much for your appreciation. I hope you'll share with others if you can.
@mikeslater82023 жыл бұрын
Excellent and really enjoyable viewing, this popped up in my stream and am now ploughing thru your “back catalogue”, many thanks.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks a lot. Welcome to the channel and I hope you find more to keep you absorbed.
@DennisCNolasco3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for highlighting these great illustrators 😊
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
And thanks to you for watching.
@juancarlosmateo8453 Жыл бұрын
Excellent utude piece. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be looking out for more.
@petebeard Жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the video. I hope you find some of the others of interest too.
@gabrielerosa6653 жыл бұрын
These greats illustrators ( pre-photographic magazine cover's era ) are fabulous! There were a lot of them working at great stores graphic catalogs industries, and also - because I knew about them at my very beginning in advertising - decorating cinema theatres at the launch of new productions.... Re-descovering these hiden masters is not only a tribute by themselves rather than a gif for us! Thanks for your effort in sharing this material!
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello Gabriel and many thanks for your positive response and observations. As a man of advanced years I still remember when magazines were mostly illustrated, and they kept me in work for quite a few years a long time ago.
@gabrielerosa6653 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard I've been looking for your e mail for contac....but I can't. Is it possible to you to contact with me? I've seen your "Caras y Caretas" video, and it seems me incredible to know about this by you who actually live in USA..... thanks for your time.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello again, Gabriel I'm actually in Britain, not the USA. I only found out about Manuel Mayol and Caras Y Caretas a couple of years ago when I was looking for something else on Google for another video. Then I found some art from the magazine on Internet Archive. Please do not be offended but I don't give out my e-mail address but I'm happy to be contacted via KZfaq.
@gabrielerosa6653 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard Thanks for your answer Pete! Let's tell you that I worked in the uruguayan advertising industry years ago....sadly last year - at Segovia, Spain - died a great friend of mine, an excellent illustrator, one of the "unsung"....and I've been thinking of showing you some - of the his not lost - works.... Uruguay is a little market, and then, at the middle of XX century, there's no international contacts as we today can share, a lot of great artist are totally unknown. Your channel is excellent, everytime a new video arrive, I'm really enjoy it. I'm now living at Barcelona.
@TexRenner5 жыл бұрын
This series is so fascinating that I keep forgetting to "Like".
@PeopleMakePictures3 жыл бұрын
So much talent...brilliant
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and that's why I make the videos. These people deserve greater exposure.
@louiscypher70905 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. Very professional and we'll put together. Thanks.
@petebeard5 жыл бұрын
And thanks to you for the appreciation-keeps me motivated
@craave1231233 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video! Thank you Mr. Beard
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hi and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
@tsunchoo6 ай бұрын
Pete - Taschen or some similar publisher should employ you to put together these episodes into coffee table books, you've already done most of the work - I love your content and am always evangelizing about it
@petebeard6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment, and although it's far from a done deal there are negotiations taking place about publishing as books. But I stress it's only tentative at this stage and being a generally pessimistic chap I expect it to evaporate, and I'm certainly not holding my breath. But who knows?
@garymcguire85293 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, never heard of Heinrich Kley, before seeing this.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hi and thanks for watching. It's always good to know that viewers discover new illustrators they like. Kley is criminally overlooked in my opinion.
@hupaogaming95592 жыл бұрын
im so happy that i found this channel
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello - and I'm happy about it too.
@esahutske2 жыл бұрын
I cannot get enough! ❤️
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello and that's very good to know. I'm glad you enjoy the channel.
@Shaun19593 жыл бұрын
very interesting video going to watch the others
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hi and thanks a lot. Please subscribe and share if you can.
@Pearlflower13 жыл бұрын
i feel so in-love 1st time watching his drawing !
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and I'm glad you like it.
@simonward-horner76053 жыл бұрын
I love this series. Thanks!
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello again and thanks for conutinuing to appreciate the channel content. It means a lot to me. And I suspect (although I don't know for sure) the reason there isn't a museum dedicated to Rackham is that vitrtually all his originals were bought by private collectors during his lifetime so theres very little to actually show.
@simonward-horner76053 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard That's a pretty good reason, I suppose.
@Borella3095 жыл бұрын
Finally Mr Beard, with this presentation, you started looking at these great artist's working methods/techniques - I'd noticed you hadn't touched on this in earlier videos. Your small army (at this point) of admirers of your presentations, I'm sure would love you to explore the underbellys of the works as well, as you go, along with your insights. And also, I couldn't help laughing as I noticed someone has made the effort to click on the the "Thumbs Down" button...oh dear... Right, onto installment #10!
@ahmadabuazza5 жыл бұрын
Amazing, thanks.
@nickmalone35993 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, thank you.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for watching. I hope you'll stick around for more.
@Leotagorax2 жыл бұрын
Hurst is amazing. Thanks, professor!
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello again and thanks again for yet more favourable comments. I'm working on a solo video about Eric Fraser - I think I threw him away a bit as an unsung.
@Leotagorax2 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard Yes! I look forward to it!
@jaftsix36813 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for watching - I hope you'll stay with the channel.
@iangillham96473 жыл бұрын
Thank you, another terrific episode. Watching two episodes back to back tells me you have judged the length perfectly and it saves them from being a ‘bang your head against the wall’ list of names. Do you know of any series of these artists published recently? I bought the “Design” series of British artists from Postscript a couple of months ago...
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello again and at the risk of beiing considered a yahoo I've rather turned against books (other than fiction) in old age. Too much text and not enough pictorial examples for my liking in so many cases. I rely almost exclusively on online sources these days, simply because the ratio of words to pictures is the opposite of that.
@iangillham96473 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard I’m the other way! Can’t stand fiction (or lies as it used to be called) so just factual books and sadly for snappy writing university level too (so MANY bad theses turned into books). Tho I do agree about the proportion of print to pictures in even the most ‘lavishly illustrated’ book. Plus I miss tipped in plates....thank you tho, I felt really cheeky asking....
@scumbletheholy42103 жыл бұрын
Fantastic vid
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello to you and thanks for the positive reaction. Please share if you can.
@brentmiller15903 жыл бұрын
Awesome for self taught for that period in time
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and I totally agree. But so many of these illustrators were self taught. The best way in my opinion.
@jmminion98703 жыл бұрын
Kley is one of my favorite illustrators😊❤️
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and he's definitely one of mine too. I don't necessarily actually like quite a few of the illustrators I feature in the series but with Kley I'm totally sold.
@anniebooo Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@petebeard Жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks a lot for your recent comments. I'm grateful for your appreciation.
@joseadrianoqueiroz64313 жыл бұрын
Muito bom! Thanks!
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Muito obrigado por ver meu canal.
@stealthiestboy3 ай бұрын
Your channel is supremely underrated. I am thankful you've taken the time and effort to research and provide us information about these forgotten artists. They'll serve as a major inspiration for many! I'm happy to own one of the only art books produced that collected Earl Oliver Hurst's work. Do you know of any artbooks from your coverage that you could recommend?
@petebeard3 ай бұрын
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel and the content. It's very welcome. Although I have a relatively small collection of books, mostly on favourite illustrators of the past and their work, it would take a while to list them all, and what appeals to me might not to you. In fact I'm far more reliant on whtat I can unearth from the internet, particularly as it means I don't need to scan every image from books. My best suggestion is simply to google any particular featured illustrator or style (pulp/art deco/fantasy etc) and see what you find that tempts you.
@stealthiestboy3 ай бұрын
@petebeard I've found that auction sites may have works from these artists that you'd otherwise never seen or heard of, or a particularly high quality image of a piece that hasn't been seen in some time.
@petebeard3 ай бұрын
@@stealthiestboy Hello again and thanks for the suggestion. As it happens I've been doing that for a while and you're right about the images. I find them also the most reliable way of finding out the mediums used.
@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte53253 жыл бұрын
0:30 Heinrich Kley
@basicsyphilis83 жыл бұрын
To be remembered
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and I hope you'll continue with the channel.
@efxnews47766 жыл бұрын
Theres one about Henrique Alvim Corrêa? He is from my country, Brazil, and he make some of the ilustrations from the book War of the Worlds of H.G. Wells, it will be nice to see a illustrator from my own country.
@petebeard6 жыл бұрын
Hi there I know about Correa and I think his work is great. But the only images I can find are for war of the worlds and a couple of nude females. With very little biography known this makes it difficult. But he may well be featured in the future. If it's any help I have featured the great Brazilian illustrator Jose Carlos in unsung heroes of illustration3
@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte53253 жыл бұрын
11:13 Earl Oliver Hurst
@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte53253 жыл бұрын
3:07 Henry Clive
@dungeoneering19743 жыл бұрын
Henry Clive was not exclusively self taught. He studied with some of the greatest illustrators of his day in New York City.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
I bow to your superior knowledge. But before I commit ritual harikiri I'd be fascinated to know the source of your information. Nothing I found made any mention of this.
@dungeoneering19743 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard we studied him in History of Illustration class in art college. He learned with Charles Dana Gibson and Harrison Fisher.
@dungeoneering19743 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard I wasn't trying to be condescending, just succinct.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
@@dungeoneering1974 And I wasn't being sarcastic. If I get stuff wrong - and it happens frequently - it's usually because the various sources are unreliable. On the other hand I was hoping for something a bit more solid than that you were told this in college. In the end I actually don't much care - it's the work that's important.
@mijiyoon55753 жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍
@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte53253 жыл бұрын
5:17 Anne Fish
@aguilacalva2625 Жыл бұрын
👍👏👏
@DaleyKreations2 жыл бұрын
I've watched several of your amazing videos so far but I am curious about one thing. When did acrylic paint become a common medium? Several times when an artist uses broad areas of solid colour you speculate that the easiest way to achieve such a look would be gouache because painting a solid area in watercolour would be even more difficult but would acrylic not have been a viable alternative as well? I'm just genuinely curious. Like most of the other commenters I am in love with you channel, as it is introducing me to a whole world of art I had never considered before.
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. Surprisingly I do know the answer to this one. Acrylics were developed in the later 1930s and didn't start being used until the early 1940s. I think they later became popular with many of the pop artists of the 50s and 60s and probably the illustrators of that period too. So certainly most of the illustrators I cover in the series would either have been dead, retired or too set in their ways with whatever medium they had grown comfortable with. The big issue that I struggle to get to the bottom of is the use of tempera, which was quite widespread in the 30s and 40s. It seems such an archaic mediem, although I must admit I've never used it.
@DaleyKreations2 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard Thank you for the answer! That does make sense. As for tempera, I guess one question would be do they mean egg tempera or the strictly water-based stuff like they give to children to play with. I remember the later being awful stuff that would flake and powder and rub off paper very easily, yet combined with egg it clearly has staying power, as evidenced by so many medieval and renaissance paintings that used it and are still around. Whether the water-based stuff I remember was just horrifically bad quality or whether it is a true example of the medium I don't know. I've always meant to try the egg tempera as a lark as I have seen examples of medieval reconstructionists using it. Apparently some modern artists' still use it but it requires working quite quickly before the egg begins to dry and building up layers of colour with overlapping short hatch-type strokes.
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
@@DaleyKreations Hello and just a quick respones to say yes I'm sure it was the egg stuff. Personally I only ever used ink and watercolour, until the devil persuaded me to go digital. So it's all a bit mysterious to me.
@mdlahey38743 жыл бұрын
I am continuing with my plan to watch all of the "Unsung" series videos, and have been appreciating each one as a gem all its own. However, I do have one wish: In spite of the musical soundtracks being as carefully curated as the illustrations, I have been finding the music a bit too loud, as compared with the pleasant baritone of Mr. Beard, the narrator. Just a thought...
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks. Yes I now realise that the music track is too loud on many of the earlier videos in the series. I'm fairy deaf so getting the balance hasn't been easy. But if it helps I'm tild later ones are better balanced and the music track is in the background where it should be. Sadly it all sounds the same to me. Some day I hope to find time to go through the lot and put it right.
@mdlahey38743 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard Many thanks, M. Beard... Fortunately, even when reducing the overall volume to temper the music track, your narration comes through clearly.
@twistoffate47912 жыл бұрын
Joe Bowler, Joe de Mers, Paul Burns and Frédéric Varady might be good subjects to include in these videos as well. Just an idea.
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for the suggestions. Joe Bowler was born too late to qualify for the unsung series (1910 is the cutoff DOB). And I can't find a date or anything else of substance for Paul Burns but I suspect he'll be too late also. But the other two will definitely feature, and I'm indebted to you as I'd heard of none of them beforehand.
@twistoffate47912 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard Just for fun: Paul Callon Vincent Burns was born in New Jersey, United States, in 1910, and died in 1990. I found water scenes ("Readying to Sail" and "Fishing Boats," 1943) in watercolor on paper beginning in the 1940s, and some portraits, which look like oil, but my favorite is "Dance," done later in 1960, gouache on paper.
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello and that information is at least enough to get me started. Just hope there's enough to sustain a profile. Thanks again.
@twistoffate47912 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard The pleasure is all mine!
@eileenmorris93573 жыл бұрын
great and beautiful, but with a lot of great video's like this,, loud music is distracting and drowns out what the narrator is saying,
@chopin653 жыл бұрын
Disney is very good at "hijacked" art. I am not sure if I am paying Disney a complement or an insult, having pointed this out, however.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello again and don't get me started on the shameless plunder by the evil empire. Like you I'm conflicted. On the one hand the early work in particular (and the amazing background art in those films) is undeniably worthy of respect. But as for the general ethos and Americanisation of British and European tales my blood presssure rises to dangerous levels.
@johannsmithe25702 жыл бұрын
1:17 the person's back climbing into the skull's eye socket turns into the skull's nose. There's other parts. Kley's painting "Demons in the Factory" (not shown) was commissioned by the Krupp family and hung in the factory's cafeteria. Since Krupp machinery, etc., was a major force its seems doubtful he was out of favor with the political and military of the times they supported. Walt Disney featured Wernher von Braun on his television show. Off in *left field* what's to say Kley wasn't an art director for 'Fanastia' as his style was used by Disney studios? Disney's quote "Without the drawings of Kley ... " is open to interpretation. Storyboard drawings? Why reverse-engineer his style when it would have been easier to have Kley come to Disney Studios? With the war on the horizon giving a German credit wouldn't have be prudent. (Same reason the 'Katzenjammer Kids' was changed to the 'Captain and the Kids' during WWI.) *Thanks* again for the presentation. Enjoyed it
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello again and thanks for the comment. We all wish we could draw that well, but I'm glad to say there are many who have achieved success in illustration with far less technical ability.
@paillette20103 жыл бұрын
3:42 Norma Shearer.
@gonzaloarvietti71893 жыл бұрын
how they painted all this art without digital ?
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Hello and I think real talent doesn't need computers. These people were a different breed.
@user-db9mu4bl3o10 ай бұрын
All lovely stuff, but Dopero! Wow! Great Artist with lousy politics! But his designs are astonishing!
@petebeard10 ай бұрын
Hi again. And sadly there have been many who have featured in this series who displayed enorous creative talent but who made friends with the wrong people. Some much more serious than Depero too.
@isabelledetronde44103 жыл бұрын
Dommage la langue étrangère n'est aucune utilité de compréhension pour m'intéresser sur se sujet même la traduction française se lirer trop vite donc je passerai à autre chose .
@alk998752 жыл бұрын
Not an illustrator here. Good video anyway
@petebeard2 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for watching. Most of the channel's viewers aren't illustrators either so you are in good company.
@jesseyessejesseyesse68883 жыл бұрын
Cut out the background piano...Can’t listen...Your deluding the power of the human voice...
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
No can do. Most - but probably not that one - now have subtitles so you could try with the sound off. And did you mean 'diluting' or maybe 'degrading'? ' Deluding' means something else altogether
@sollows443 жыл бұрын
Gouache: It's pronounced gwash not gooash.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
Not according to the online dictionaty. You say potay-to.... Either way feel free to keep your pedantic petty comments to yourself.
@sollows443 жыл бұрын
@@petebeard Well now that you mention it, one of my sources does support your pronunciation whereas other sources do not, but after an art education and 30 years commissioning editorial illustration as an art director I've never heard it pronounced "gooash" until I heard you do it. As for keeping my pedantic petty comments to myself . . . No, that's the way it works and you as the creator of the content need to drop the attitude and just take it.
@petebeard3 жыл бұрын
@@sollows44 You're absolutely right goodbye nitwit.
@burningb24392 жыл бұрын
Henry Clive , you cant go wrong with Pastels , an being self taught ..Earl Hurst ..the Colliers cover of the Girl doing her eyes in make up was hilarious..just luv that period .