Lecture Notes - 16/1/13

"What links can be made between contemporary illustration, art history and past culture?" - essay question
Ideas

• Editorial/political illustration - Steve Bell, Trog, etc
• Small press illustration - Nobrow, B9, zines, etc
• Animation - films, shorts, stop motion, 3D/Pixar, etc

List of mentioned illustrators

• Spike Gerrel
• Glen Baxter
• Paul Blow
• Edel Rodriguez - oppression
• Brad Holland - metaphor
• Ian Whadcock
• Brian Grimwood - postmodernist
• René Magritte - surrealist
• Jung, Freud 
• Abram Games - propaganda
• Matthew Cook
• Laura Carlin
• Victor Ambrus - history, folklore
• Laura Knight
• Russell Cobb - anatomical, decorative, informative
• Craig Foster - DNA
• Peter Grundy - infographics
• Harriet Russell - map 
• Ravenna Mosaics - Jesus
• Greek pots - tell stories
• Hokvsai - printmaker
• John Singer Sargent - fashion
• Aubrey Beardsley 
• Moebius
• Asaf and Tomer Hanuka
• Windsor McCay 
• Bayeux tapestry - 1066 Battle of Hastings - sequence
• William Hogarth - first political cartoonists, Gin Lane
• Peter Brookes - political cartoonist
• Foz - grafitti
• French cave paintings
• Lucy Mclaughlan
• Charlotte Mann - backdrops
• Krisjana Williams
• Sara Fanelli
• William Morris - surface designer
• Kathe Kollwitz - WW2 printmaking
• John Tenniel - 1800s, Alice in Wonderland
• Kathy Greenway - sweet, sickly paintings of children 
• John Martin 
• Jogn Minton
• Chaucer
• Eva Tavecha
• Russell Cobb

Internet - illustrations happen there
Can be defined by conceptual approaches or recognised by genre and area of application.  Illustration is getting more popular. Sometimes defined by stylistic approach (we're taught Bauhaus style).
Images can be used to convey information
Propaganda - Russian constructivism, communists, bold graphics, colour, impact

Illustration can be narrative or text based to document sequences. Reportage, topographical illustrations.
Documentation can take different forms - pictograms. Psychogeography.

Image and text - sequence and movement.
Illustration as a social tool - influencing politics as social history. Application influenced by technology and politics/social sitch. Function of illustration is linked historically.

Research 5 artists.