Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson

2009 self-portrait by Icelandic artist Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson, via a recent Czech exhibit of his works

Bagaría on Mars

This is a martian-heavy companion to my huge 50 Watts post on Spanish caricaturist Luis Bagaria. Most are from the 1924 series "Bagaría on Mars."

This is a martian-heavy companion to my huge 50 Watts post on Spanish caricaturist Luis Bagaria. Go there for more info and images.

Mikalojus Vilutis 2

Here's my promised post of earlier work by Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Vilutis (born 1944). I've gathered them from around the net, mostly from an auction house (so some of them are watermarked). Here's the Illustrarium page for Mikalojus Vilutis, who is known as a master of sillkscreen/serigraphy (the method used for most of the works featured here).

See the first post

1973

1973

1971

1973

1978

1990

1984

1995

'Fortune Teller,' 1991

1989

See the first post

Hiroshi Manabe

I featured this last one in the first Space Teriyaki post:

Bio by Ben Ettinger

Hiroshi Manabe 真鍋博
1932-2000. Born in Ehime prefecture.

Manabe is one of the most famous illustrators of the postwar period, having been the person who brought a certain degree of respectability to the art of the book illustration. He pioneered his own personal style characterized by highly colorful scenes full of clean, flowing lines, where both man and nature are uniformly stylized in a way that seems to speak of his very personal idealistic, hopeful stance towards the future. (This blazing 1960s vision of the future is lovingly recaptured in Mind Game.) He was extremely prolific as a book cover designer, designing the covers for many novels by famous alternative sci-fi writers Shin'ichi Hoshi and Yasutaka Tsutsui, and was outspoken on various issues, authoring numerous of his own nonfiction tomes. Born and raised in the rural city of Niihama on the north side of Shikoku, Manabe's art has become a part of the landscape of his hometown, both figuratively and literally, as his illustrations decorate various installations around the city, including the Niihama Women's Plaza and an anti-nuclear arms monument in the central park. [via]

This is a supplement to my ongoing 50 Watts' series "Space Teriyaki." These illustrations are from the late 70s to mid-80s.

Egene Koo

I found myself browsing a lot of Korean art today. It can be maddening to translate names.

Here's a work by Egene Koo.

On 50 Watts: The Diagram Queen, works by Korean artist Minjeong An (born 1981)

Alfred Jarry Bio

I haven't had a chance to properly flip through it let alone read it, but I didn't want to go too long without mentioning this bio of Patron Saint Alfred Jarry by Patron Saint Alastair Brotchie of Atlas Press.

(Currently in the middle of: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Rameau's Nephew, and A Voice Through A Cloud...the last book way too overwhelming to read in bed, I learned last night.)

Unurthed

I've been happily digging through the archives of the wide-ranging art blog Unurthed.

This is a Basohli painting ca. 1700. For very different Basohli paintings see this recent 50 Watts post.

Gori Muñoz for Lorca

Illustrations by Gori Muñoz for a volume of Lorca’s posthumous poems, 1945
via Bibliofilia novohispana.
An Amazon search for the artist brings up many results.

Merry Christmas

See the 50 Watts' post of eleven watercolor faces, courtesy of a Japanese library covered by BibliOdyssey in 2008. I resisted the urge to photoshop some Christmas green into this image.

Reynard the Fox

Illustrations from Reinecke Fuchs, circa 1880 via a German library.  The watercolors are by Heinrich Leutemann, working close to the style of Wilhelm von Kaulbach's famous versions. (The fox is anatomically-correct in both versions!)

This post is a supplement to my 50 Watts' "Kinderbuch series" of German, Austrian, and Swiss children's books