Supamoduさんのイラストまとめ

FROM BRAZIL: And of course, where there is labor, there is a struggle, and Candido Portinari depicted it unflinchingly, but with affecting, generous humanity.

FROM RUSSIA & FRANCE: Valentina Kropivnitskaya would often remain in the shadow of her husband Oscar Rabin, a prominent Soviet and then French artist, but her gloomy horsepeople set against landscapes of nostalgia created a singular world of her own.

FROM RUSSIA: Filipp Malyavin emigrated in the 1920s, did not share the country with his subjects for long. They probably never benefitted from his prominence either. But his works mark perfectly the beginning of a red century: swirls of pinafores become winds of revolution

FROM KENYA: Elias Mung’ora is also great at portraits of his fellow Kenyans, all caught in intimate moments of introspection, when an inner light radiates from their faces carefully captured with Mung’ora’s strokes.

FROM UK: The British illustrator Quentin Blake was doing some work for a charity when he realized that there should be more disabled kids in picture books because there are many of them in life. Here are some examples of Blake’s paraplegic characters: we stan!

FROM SPAIN & MEXICO: Dressing up as impressive historical women for parties is always admirable, but here’s an even better idea: why not try Varo’s characters? Delectably weird, complex, and mesmerizing, they will blow everyone’s minds. We’ll be back soon, got some sewing to do.

FROM INDIA: Indian artist from Kerala, C. N. Karunakaran, was a sickly, disabled child after typhus, which hindered his early education. But that did not prevent him from being admitted to India’s oldest art school & becoming an artist of unmatched power and plasticity.

FROM TEWA PEOPLE: Santa Clara Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell created her first sculpture of a dog at the age of 4. She hasn’t stopped creating since, and her signature human figures are full of reverence, an affinity for the family, and humor

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FROM CUBA: Wifredo Lam, an artist of Chinese/Congolese/Cuban ethnicity was brave, outspoken and a staunch supporter of the people’s struggles. But we also admire him for his character design: so many canvases filled to the brim with creatures inspired by his complex heritage

FROM SWEDEN & DENMARK: Lennart Hellsing, the Swedish children’s writer with West Indian blood, died 5 years ago today. His works are not translated into English yet: too much wordplay. But the illustrations to his books, by Charlotte Ramels and Poul Ströyer, are pretty telling.