American Illustration Style —— Rockwell Kent, an outstanding American illustrator in the 20th century

What are the illustration styles of international standards? 1, Japanese and Korean style. Features: The most typical Japanese style is celluloid, with beautiful painting style, slender figures and little change between men and women. But at the same time, it is slightly different, such as Japanese style is more casual and life-oriented, Korean style is more gorgeous and romantic, basically similar to realistic style.

2, European and American styles, characteristics: European and American style illustrations are mostly realistic, emphasizing the true texture and texture, and depicting delicately. I like exaggerated expressions to make the characters look more vivid and energetic.

3. China ancient style, characteristics: Compared with the illustrations of the above two artistic styles, the original paintings of the national style also have their own distinctive characteristics, which are restrained but full of tension. Although China's original paintings are more or less influenced by those of Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, its profound classical art, elegance and mystery are still its characteristics.

Rockwell Kent is an outstanding illustrator in the 20th century in the United States. He once painted more than 300 illustrations for his masterpiece Moby Dick, which made Seward, the owner of Random House, especially appreciate Rockwell Kent. When the first edition of Moby Dick was published, Rockwell Kent's name was printed on the cover. The original author McWeill was not printed, which is an anecdote in the publishing legend!

Rockwell Kent was born in 1882, a small town in upstate New York, USA. He graduated from Columbia architecture department. There are many details of architectural art paintings in his later illustrations, whether it is pavilions, temples or portraits of classical novels, there is a three-dimensional sense of sculpture!

Rockwell is good at drawing illustrations for famous books. Kent is also the most famous American illustrator in the heyday of American book publishing industry in the 20th century. He went in and out of publishing, journalism and business giants. He is generous and sociable, and designed home library tickets for these celebrities. The design cost of an ordinary public library ticket is between one hundred dollars and two hundred dollars. Is a new generation of successful professional printmakers and library ticket design experts!

He is well-dressed, in and out of high society, can sell his own paintings and run his own life, which fully embodies the characteristics of American life. Kent is quite versatile in painting. He is good at oil painting, watercolor painting, sculpture, decorative painting, woodcut, board painting and copperplate printing. He is a great artist with great talent!

Illustrations of Kent's famous works include (Moby Dick), Chaucer's (Canterbury Tales), Goethe's (Faust) (The Complete Works of decameron Shakespeare), Whitman's (Leaves of Grass), Random House's logo and Voltaire's (Honest) illustrations drawn by Kent!

This is Kent's illustration for The Canterbury Tales. Kent's illustrations are very personal, with black and white lines, a sense of humor, and a slightly exaggerated artistic realism of the characters! The style of the work is obviously different from the description of the characters' scenery in the novel by European illustrators. After getting familiar with it, you will have the taste of standard American culturalism in the early twentieth century!

Rockwell Kent died in 197 1, a great painter with a long life! Married three ladies. The third wife in her later years was not much older than her children and was very popular with painters. Just like Zhang Daqian in our country, he left several old ladies in the mainland and took his little wife to Taiwan Province Province and Brazil in his later years!

Rockwell Kent painted, wrote, sailed, explored, traveled around the world, fell in love and had an affair. .....

(The picture is taken from the Library of Rational Professional Writers.)

I need to know the characteristics of illustrations in various countries, such as China, South Korea, Japan, Europe and America.

The illustrations of China and China in modern Shanghai are representative, influenced by foreign countries and combined with their own characteristics. It has influenced for a long time, including many movie posters before the 1980s, and we can still see the shadow of that era. Including posters during the war, it is also a representative style.

Korea, win with color. I occasionally see Korean things, which are not much different from China. Others are made directly with Chinese painting, which I don't know much about.

Europe and America, with a long history, have many different styles, such as those with many patterns during the Renaissance, which are very representative. There are obvious differences in figures' illustrations in different periods, such as distorted satire, realism and muscle pursuit of structure. Spider-Man, Batman and so on. If it is subdivided, the United States and Europe will be different. For example, posters of modern American western towns.

In Japan, the representative is Fuji Hua, with a full picture and a large proportion of characters, similar to Japanese dramas.

I think any style and change of illustration is the embodiment of society in a certain period. This is inseparable from social evidence.

In addition, there are many illustrations in ancient China, such as the gossip on the signboard of fortune tellers, the plant sketches in the compendium of materia medica, and the rare inserts of famous works such as The West Chamber.

I thought the same thing.

I don't specialize in illustration, so I don't know. The above is my own opinion.

Your graduation project in Japan and South Korea may be a bit difficult, especially in South Korea, where there are too few reference materials. And Japan really has nothing to say except a few superficial words.

If you want a breakthrough, interesting, you can see China. After all, not many people study it. It is best to write illustrations in Europe and America, and there are too many references. It should be easy.

We can look at the interaction between China and Japan and South Korea, Europe and the United States and China, and even Europe and the United States and Japan and South Korea with China as the main line. (purely personal)

I am also an art major. I'm a senior three. I hope everyone can succeed.