Supamoduさんのイラストまとめ

FROM GREECE & US: Nassos Daphnis had a rare gift: he was able to see beauty organically and abstractly at the same time. As a trained horticulturist he bred tree peonies, and as a self-taught artist, he created works where color and shape are conceived in purely geometric notions

FROM CZECHIA: Helena Zmatlíková illustrated around 250 books throughout her extensive career, and her works were even exhibited at a World Fair—here is just a small sampling of the whimsy and the magic.

FROM ARGENTINA: Juan Carlos Castagnino was always preoccupied with the social circumstances of his subjects, but depicted them gently, reinterpreting the artistic realism for the 20th century, and infusing them with an unmistakably Argentinean air.

FROM RUSSIA: Alexander Tokarev is a man of many talents, a screenwriter, a film director, but today we celebrate him as an artist, whose works, full of fantasy and humor but always grounded in a recognizable reality are a bittersweet pleasure.

FROM HUNGARY & FRANCE: Born in a Hungarian Jewish family, André François moved to France in his youth, and soon became a prominent illustrator and artist celebrated across the Western world. We especially like his humorous beasts that populate a world quite like our own.

FROM CHINA: Feng Zikai is best known for his works centering children, and while they’re no necessarily as deep as some others, they are proof that a true artist can depict the innocence and curiosity of a young age even in very minimalist works.

FROM CHINA: Feng Zikai was one of the vanguard artists of manhua, whose works depicted the social fabric of the evolving Chinese society over the 20th century with wit and an incomparable visual aesthetic.

FROM BELARUS: Mikhail Savitsky was barely 20 years old when WWII started. He fought bravely, and was imprisoned in some of the deadliest concentration camps. Yet, he lived to create art that was a stark account of suffering under Nazis but also a celebration of new life and hope.

FROM PHILIPPINES: A pioneer in Filipino modernism and WWII guerrilla fighter, Botong Francisco depicted the history of his homeland in his murals: battles for the independence, the way medicine evolved, and, most importantly, the sacrifices and labors that made it all possible

FROM FRANCE: For Jean Metzinger, cubism was not merely an art movement but a science, inspired by the works of Poincaré, as laid out in the first theoretical work on the subject he co-authored. Metzinger’s own works, in turn, inspired Niels Bohr as he worked on quantum mechanics