A lyrist of color and light, in love with the Australian landscape She loved a land of wide plains and its frayed mountain ranges that merged into distant horizons. For her contribution to Australian literature, in the New Year’s Day of 1968, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She travelled with her parents through …
Read More »A 30 YEARS MUSICAL JOURNEY – Midnight Oil, antipodean pub rock version of Queen
From Sydney’s Royal Antler Hotel to the Exxon Building in New York The group have inspired artists outside of popular music, including poet Daniel Nester and painter Nicholas Harding. Also known under the nickname The Oils, they are an Australian rock group originally from Sydney, which started playing in 1972. In 1975, the group rechristened itself Midnight Oil https://www.midnightoil.com/. After …
Read More »WHEN FOR A CARTOONIST A SURFACE NEEDS ASIAN PAINTS – R.K. Laxman, best known for The Common Man and cartoon strip, You Said It
Struggling for an idea, smoking for inspiration He loved to draw objects that caught his eye outside the window of his room. Collected in The Distorted Mirror (2003), he published short stories, essays, and travel articles. He developed an affinity for drawing at an early age. R.K. Laxman, born 1921 in Mysuru (India), was cartoonist who created daily comic strip, …
Read More »COMIC SUGGESTIONS, CINEMATOGRAPHICALLY REPRODUCED – Federico Fellini, creative greatness and uncontainable fantasy
When the style of a film is inspired by the caricatural simplicity of its characters Taking graphic notes of the faces and objects of the characters of his films, he made a track that creatively illuminated the first day of his every film production https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fellini_federico.htm. In addition to his being a famous director, there is also a cartoonist version, and …
Read More »COMPLICATED CARTOONS GADGETS FOR SIMPLE TASKS – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize for satire
The Rube Goldberg machines The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »THE FATHER OF COMIC STRIPS – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist
Illustrated books, for earliest European comics The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »Richard Felton Outcault, American cartoonist, the creator of The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown
Cartoon series influential in comic history strip The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »BETWEEN CLERGYMEN’S CORRUPTION AND SEXUAL REPRESSION – Pino Zac, an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and animator
From Pratola Peligna to Le Canard enchaîné The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »ADULT COMICS AND ATMOSPHERIC USE OF BLACK AND WHITE – Magnus, an Italian comic book artist
From comics series Kriminal, until long Tex’s story The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/. 12
Read More »STARTING FROM CORTO MALTESE, UNTIL AWARD HALL OF FAME – Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book creator
Combining storytelling with historical research The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »THE CARTOON VERSION OF BELGIUM PERSONIFICATION – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist father of The Adventures of Tintin
Popular drawing style and ligne claire comic albums The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »GROTTESE COMICS AND NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE – Al Capp, American cartoonist and humorist
Satirical comic strips, urban experiences and the way the world viewed American South The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors. We only wish to spread the knowledge of these creative people, allowing others to appreciate the works. If you want to know other cartoonists, you can type http://meetingbenches.com/category/cartoonists/.
Read More »MADRID, ALMOST A LITERARY CHARACTER – The constant, mysterious and inexplicable force of Madrid’s creativity
The Madrid of creativity, where nobody goes to bed before killing the night Madrid https://www.liabeny.es/it/ is a city full of history where you will find famous places, such as Paseo del Prado, the Plaza de la Puerta del Sol or the Plaza Mayor (with really interesting buildings), the Royal Palace and the Basilica of San Francisco, Palacios de Cibeles and …
Read More »THE MANY FACES OF A SPANISH WHO DID NOT BECOME A WRITER – Eduardo Arroyo and his neo-figurative art
When a word is an image and a painting is a word Thanks to its collection of over 8,600 paintings, the Prado National Museum in Madrid https://www.museodelprado.es/en can help to leave an indelible mark on your travel memories. Imagining it in this way, you will need to associate in your mind a special itinerary of at least ten masterpieces. Starting …
Read More »FICTIONAL SCENES AND REALITY-BASED LENS – Cristina de Middel: Blending documentary and conceptual photographic practices
Disenchanted with photojournalism shaping of public opinions A few years ago, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en hosted a large photographic retrospective of Luigi Ghirri https://archivioluigighirri.com/, an Italian photographer who through two hundred images recounted a vanished Italy, that of the seventies of the twentieth century. Spanish photograph Alberto GarcÃa-Alix https://www.albertogarciaalix.com/en/obras/self-portrait/ is instead a condensed images that tell tragic …
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