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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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The Sprawling Pen and Ink Cityscapes of Ben Sack [feedly]
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The Sprawling Pen and Ink Cityscapes of Ben Sack
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A Single Note / 48″ diameter, 150″ (12.5 feet) circumference
A Single Note, detail
A Single Note, detail
A Single Note, detail
A Single Note, detail
A Single Note, detail
A Single Note, detail
With meticulous determination and a steady hand, artist Ben Sack picks up a black 0.05 Staedtler pigment liner pen and begins to draw the dense, intricate details of fictional cityscapes: buildings, roads, rivers and bridges. He draws until the ink runs out and picks up another pen. And another. And another. Sapping the ink from dozens of writing utensils until several months later a canvas is complete. His most recent piece, a vast circular drawing titled A Single Note (top), has a 12.5 foot circumference. It staggers the mind.
The architecture found in Sack's artwork spans centuries, from gothic cathedrals to towering skyscrapers, underpinned by patterns of urban sprawl reminiscent of European cities with a healthy dose of science fiction. If you look carefully you might even recognize a familiar landmark here and there. He shares as his influence some thoughts on "western antiquity":
Its this sort of image that I think most people, if not all of society have of western antiquity; stainless marble facades, long triumphal avenues, monuments to glory. In actuality, the cities of the past were far from idealistic by todays standards. Yes there was marble, lots of marble, and monuments galore, however these urban centers were huddled together and unless you were considerably wealthy, life in dreamy antiquity was often a heroic struggle. Though the societies of antiquity were bloody, dirty and corrupt the idea of antiquity has come to represent some resounding ideals in present society; democracy, justice, law and order, balance, symmetry. These ideals are now the foundation stones of our own civilization, a civilization that some distant future will perhaps honor as antiquity.
Sack graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 and has since had work numerous solo a group exhibitions, most recently at Ghostprint Gallery. And just this week he returned from a circumnavigation of the globe as part of a residence aboard the m/s Amsterdam. You can see more of his work on his website, and over on Tumblr. Prints are available here. (via Waxy.org, Laughing Squid)
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Roku Redux [feedly]
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Roku Redux
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Rokuro Taniuchi (or Roku, as he often signs) is one of my favorite illustrators and I've featured him many times over the years. These images from the 1950s are again courtesy of Jimoto and his stunning site Dassaishooku. Previous posts on this artist My note from the first post I did on Roku in October 2008:I discovered the incredible Japanese illustrator Rokuro Taniuchi (1921–81) while searching for Tadanori Yokoo books. On the Amazon listing for this profusely-illustrated book—Taniuchi Rokuro Gensouki (Shinshindo, 1981)—Yokoo is listed as the editor. The book seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth, and I feel incredibly lucky to have found it. Through some creative googling of Japanese characters, I did manage to dig up an archive [link now dead]. Comparing the book to this site, I discovered that many of the images were originally made for the Weekly Shincho. I think others must surely be illustrations for children's books. The artist dated some of the works: late 40s / early 50s. The book includes an insert promoting the "Unicorn Color Series." Has anyone heard of this series? I plan to do another post from this book—it is too good not to share. 
I've featured these last three images before but I love them and Jimoto's scans are better so here they are again: 
Previous posts on this artist This post first appeared on April 30, 2014 on 50 Watts 
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
wellnotwisely: Reviewed Christophe Blain and Abel Lanzac’s... [feedly]
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wellnotwisely: Reviewed Christophe Blain and Abel Lanzac's...
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am pretty much gripped by anything blain does
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liamcobb: "Death of a Crow" [feedly]
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liamcobb: "Death of a Crow"
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"Death of a Crow"
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