A revelation. There's such an unforced quality to this illustrator's work, an ability to stop precisely when enough has been done, an exuberance: a perfect confidence that he can transmit the imagined onto paper. If you can find more work, more page images, do come back to Stanny for a Part 2 telling us and showing us more.
Hello and I'm delighted by your response to Stanny's remarkable and diverse body of work. Unfortunately what's in the video is pretty much all I could find that's of decent resolution.
Wonderful, you provide information, education and a break from the troubles in the world. I always celebrate a new video with a nice cup of coffee and a cookie, as accompaniment to the feast for the eyes and ears you provide.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I hope some of his work was inspirational to you. My personal opinion is that narrative illustration doesn't get any better than his work for Hans Andersen.
So much variety in style and complexity. I found it all very appealing (including that weird book title - who wouldn’t give a pair of those to a friend or colleague? ha ha). Whether detailed or just a few lines, the artist’s wit and skill caught my curiosity. And Mr. Beard, from your great opening with the jazzy rider, another pleasure to watch and listen to!
Fantastic! I’ve long loved Polish graphic art so another blissful video! What a wonderful illustrator! Fabulous to see such range in his work. It is personally very inspiring too because in the creative world it feels like you have to stay in a very particular style and not deviate, so then it is hard to grow as an artist. His range just gives a big green light! Thank you again for a great video for us all to enjoy and to celebrate the talent and breadth of these illustrators.
Hello again and I'm delighted that you had such a positive response to Stanny;s ridiculously divers body of work. Most of us have to settle for being OK at one thing if we are lucky.
I had never heard of him and am quite happy that you've presented him here. One of the few moderns (IMHO) who can stand comparison with the greats of the past! And I love his cats!
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. There is such a book available on ebay - if you are fortunate enough to live in the USA. And it's only 10 dollars.
Absolutely wonderful illustrations; cant thankyou enough for finding and showcasing Janusz' stuff... your huge showcase project is a gift and encouragement to all modern illustrators and artists... = highlight of the youtube week!
Thanks for another incredible video! I learn so much from these. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make them. I had to pause the video several times in absolute shock of how good some of Stanny's illustrations are. Just astounding.
It’s great to see this highlight on Polish illustrators, and there’s more names with some wonderful talent that should be more widely recognized. Thank you!
Hello and thanks a lot. I also have Tadeusz Gronowski as a work in progress. If you can send me more name of Polish illustrators (they must be dead to qualify) I would be grateful.
@@petebeard Jan Marcin Szancer and Hanna Czajkowska are the first names to come to mind. There's even a beautiful album with Szancer's collected works -- in Polish, of course -- if you can get your hands on it. I'd personally also recommend looking into Polish poster art, which isnt too far away from such illustrations. After all they all studied under and from one another haha
@@kiddo1392 Hello and thanks a lot for your suggestions. Szancer appeared a long time ago in unsung heroes 16 but I may well return to him for a solo video. There doesn't seem to be enough decent resoltion imagery to make a video about Czajkowska unfortunately but I will look harder.
That was really lovely. Thanks. He certainly commanded a wide range of styles effectively. It is always nice when someone isn't stuck in a rut. I wonder what he was doing during the hiatus? Maybe something completely different.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must say 2 decades with no evidence of creative work seems puzzling, but maybe despite my digging I just didnt find it.
I'd heard about polish graphic design, I'd saw some articles in a Novum or Graphis magazines, now I can put names at one of these talented artist. It's impressive the great arrays of styles, and his use of typo and image to create works of art. Thanks for giving us Janusz Stanny works, it's really inspirational!
Hi Gabriel and thanks for your continuing support. He was too talented to be this forgotten, and there's at least one more great Polish illustrator on his way. Hopefully more.
Let's not forget the political climate he was working in. Every image was heavily scrutinized before publication, including eyes in Moscow. He must have been judged as a loyal comrade to have even this body of work. Someone needs to go to Poland now (or find a local contact) to fully research his work. Thank you, Pete for another revelation.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must admit it seemed odd to me that all the Polsh sources I found didn't really provide much biographical information. Maybe he was tolerated rather than lauded?
To be honest, for most of the communist period, from 1956 onwards, except for the martial law (December 1981 - July 1983), censorship in Poland was much lighter than in USSR, or most of its satellite states (if not all of them). I think that visual artists enjoyed a particular large amount of relative freedom. At the same time, they weren't so constrained by economic factors as today. For example, there were many Hollywood movies shown in Polish cinemas, with wonderfully unique artistic posters designed in the Polish school. Today, nearly all film posters in Poland are the same bland corporate stuff as everywhere else.
Hello and thanks for the comment. The answer to your question is sadly not enough. A view of the make up of my audience reveals that the young (who I thought needed it most) are poorly represented. Such is life.
What a treat to see these works of brilliant art and design with my morning coffee, Pete. Always amazed you can find these lost examples of illustration. I was especially taken by Stanny's bold cover designs, simple yet powerful. Exactly what a book cover should do. And of course his stylized animals, almost abstract, but, as you said, extracting the essence of each animal so the viewer can totally recognize the creature. Wonderful! Another great one. Hope you are staying warm; Provence is gray and miserable these past few days. Maybe you'll treat us to some sunny and warm illustrators for these short, almost winter days?;-) Cheers, Pete!
Hi Doug and thanks for the appreciation. I fail to understand how one man could be so accomplished in so many styles and techniques, and I'm green with envy. I bet I can outdo you in the grey and miserable stakes, but I'm already planning trips to the mediterranean for next year.
“Cheerfully disturbing” is an unusual, if fitting description - certainly smile inducing. Since the thumbnail was not something that would generally appeal to me, it took a little hop skip and jump over my own shadow to choose this video. And how rewarding that was. Chastened by my prejudice, I found delightful art, so diverse to be astounding. This was a real pleasure to see an artist effortlessly move from the conventional to the cubistic to the surrealistic. Your videos always manage to inform and entertain simultaneously. Thank you
Hello again and of course my gratitude for your comment. Sometimes - as in this instance - it's a virtual impossibility to sum up an illustrator's work with the one defining image. So I'm glad you overcame your indifference to this one and found the remarkable and ridiculously diverse images he created.
Thank you again for bringing us such wonderful illustrations and introducing us to the artist. Yet another delightful and educational video. Looking at the King of the Dardanelles I had thought that he may have used some method of printing for the brickwork but looking closely at it I cannot see any repeated pattern. Though not difficult to do this would be very timeconsumming.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. Its the persistence of his creative imagination that floors me. Oh yes - and his mastery of so many techniques.
As a college student studying illustration, I really appreciate your videos. It's great to learn about the many great artists and illustrators who lived and created before our current times. Cheers! :)
Many thanks for your appreciation, and particularly as you are studying the subject. I had hoped that more of those starting out on the journey would appreciate the channel, but according to youtube most of my viewers and subscribers are over 40. Never expected that.
great response for your new video. mine only has 55 views, after 9 days. LOL. thanks again, Pete, for these wonderful overviews of such wonderful artists.
Hi and thanks a lot for your favourable comment. I wouldn't worry too much about low viewing numbers. It took me almost 8 years to get this far. Sometimes I think I should have made videos about kittens...
Watched this 4 times I think. First with sound and subtitles, then without. Then stopping at each piece to try and look more closely, to try to grasp how his imagination worked only to then be confronted with a totally different style - that took two visits just to do it in halves. Which was wonderful! Fantasy to realistic and back to abstract again, what a lifetime of indulgence allowed its necessary freedom. Time well spent. Do you ever get 'museum overload' looking at so much art? I would!! But Stanny is one of my all time favorites for sure now. Like another commenter says, more please, if you find enough to make even just a short 5" piece. Meanwhile I'll no doubt come back to this for inspiration. Thank you again, as always. :)
Hello and that's what I call dedication. I'm very pleased you have been seduced by Stanny's ridiculously diverse output. But I'm sorry to say that for now at least I've pretty much unearthed all the Stanny work that's available. And oddly enough I never get jaded making the videos. My own shamefully short attention span leads me to only work on a particular illustrator or video in bursts of a couple of hours. So the variety keeps me on my toes, and in all honesty I just love this stuff too much.
While Stanny's illustration styles vary considerably, they all exhibit extremely controlled use of his chosen media. All the examples you shared with us were wonderfully fresh. How I miss that era of graphic design.
Hello again and thanks again for your appreciation. Raining in Portugal? I suppose it must do from time to time. For my sins I live in the wettest part of England.
@@petebeard We are experiencing a lot of precipitation these days. But it's actually good, the drought has been severe. Again, thank you for your beautiful videos and for always answering to the comments. 👍
Hello and the best word I could come up with would be eclectic - but of course that's not really a style anyway. A category of his own - Stanny style maybe?
@@petebeard Also, I think you used the word “whimsical”. I understand, but I don’t think that word does him justice. That word applies to cartoons. His work was not cartoonish in the slightest. Again, he had risen above that. Anyhow, fantastic work.
Peter Beard. Excelente trabajo. Con cada entrega amplías mucho mas nuestras fronteras en cuanto a la ilustración. Me has sacado de mi pequeña caja, y has abierto horizontes nuevos en este maravilloso arte. Parece que no hay fin para la creatividad y el estilo. Gracias por tu esfuerzo. Saludos.
Hola y muchas gracias por tus comentarios positivos sobre el canal. Significa mucho para mí cuando los espectadores aprecian que estoy tratando de aumentar el conocimiento sobre estos ilustradores.
Very charming illustrations! It just feels.... correct, for a lack of a better work. Just one question, you mention around 4:59 that their illustration are "also refreshingly free of the kind of sentimentality seen in the styling of many other contemporary children's picture books." I imagine more or less what you are talking about, but may I ask for an example of an illustrator of the time? Just to see what that sentimentality looks like. Besides that, thank you for making your videos! Love getting to know more artists, specially outside the "mainstream" haha
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of the channel content. And the best way to see what I meant is to simply search "1960s children's picture books" in google and select images. Three that jumped out at me were Dogger by Shirley Hughes , Peter and Jane in the Garden by Gwyneth Mamlok and Summer Friends by Jeanette Krinsky. But there are many more of similar qualities.
Hi again and in the case of Stanny that certainly seems to be the case. I'm completely baffled about how it's possible to be so versatile and accomplished. I'd settle for being good at one thing.
For me, this was a review in thirds: One-third I hated; one-third I loved, and one-third elicited almost no reaction at all. I'm thinking this simply *_must_* be genius! ;)
Hi Kevin and I bet I could pinpoint which bits fell into which categories. I like to think there's something (at least) for everyone in the videos. next one up will be more your cup of tea.
When it comes to graphic design and illustration, the Poles are in a league of their own. And Stanny is no exception! Superb work. I first became aware of Polish art in the early '70s via articles in Graphis magazine. Their take on movie posters, in particular were amazing, along with book covers. A hugely differing approach compared to English and American styles.
You know, Pete, a lot of us could be forgiven for feeling that since Andy Warhol and his contemporaries, art had been funnelled down to mostly the likes of Tracey Emin, Damian Hurst, Banksy, etc. It's been a relief to the soul to watch these videos, and find those worthless poops all along drowned in an ocean of wonderful art we knew nothing of. Thanks for the rescue! Obrigado.
Thanks a lot for your comment. And it's good to hear from someone who shares my own low opinion of the bunch of charlatans currently masquerading as artists.
TS 8:12 I like that skull castle & the frog TS 8:30 People, not just artists but, people making $$$ from what they luv have been given a great gift & I'm sure they know it; but, the art field is so difficult they have been blessed w/ their gift & TS 9:19 that fox is wonderful w/ the flowers growing out of it
I enjoy every one of your illustrator’s biographies. This one particularly, such a life time of creativity and innovation! May I suggest 2 names: Paul Durand 1925-1977, the french Wikipedia page lists 21 different publishing houses. The example I own: a translation of the Jungle Book at Librairies Delagrave. NikolaÏ Mikhaĩlovitch Kotcherguine, Russian, 1897-1974, l own only one example, L’hirondelle, a coréen folktale. Éditions la Farandole, Paris VIe. I got it as a school price when I was a kid. I found out that the édition la farandole were run by women only, and was affiliated to the French communist party. My book is part of a collection of folktale from country that had communist regime at the time. The two illustrators have very different styles. Their images must be the first in my life that impressed me.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video. Paul Durand I was not aware of, so I will investigate and see what I can find. Nikolai Kochergin (in English) is already on my list, although I don't think there is that much to be found by or about him so he is probably going to appear as an unsung hero. I really am grateful for your suggestions but please don't expect to see anything any time soon as I already have dozens of others in the pipeline ahead of them.
@@papaunderwater3316 Hello again. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, and I didn't previously know of his existence. But a quick search reveals a worrying shortage of decent resolution pictures. I'll have a more serious search and if I find enough I'll feature him - but don't be surprised if I can't. Either way I always welcome suggestions.
That indeed was pure awesome...well done Pete! I have to add that this sort of art (to me) seems cold and dated... very 50-60's abstract. Being told it is good makes me cringe having grown up on Vargas, Petty, Disney... Rockwell... all the Masters... I never had any interest in the stark/dark and what I term loose and childlike work of the Cubist and primitive... Now I can appreciate better thanks to your historical perspective. Great job! I should also thank you for presenting many artists who are now a part of my book collection!
Hello again, and thanks a lot for the comment. I try to cover as many of the stylistic bases as I can rather than just my own personal preferences. As an old man I now realise that what I like is fairly immaterial - it's what is worthy of respect that really counts.
I must say that personally a large portion of its work I find a bit too "artsy" for my perhaps slightly uneducated taste, but undoubtfully he was a very creative and competent artist. From what was shown in this videom his later works are those I like the most.
Hello and thanks for the comment. He certainly pushed at various boundaries and for many I suspect he is an acquired taste. But there's no denying his valuable contribution.
Hello. Wanda gag had already featured in unsung heroes 25 and Kate Seredy is waiting in line for her turn in another as yet unmade. Unfortunately neither of them have enough high resolution images to make solo videos with.
It's great that children's books in communism era were not as dull and gray as other things back than. I remember a lot of them - they were fantastic addition to the stories. ps. If I can have a little tip - cause I guess figuring out how to spell polish (or other) names can sometimes be a nightmare - try google translate it has a spell function and it works very nicely.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and insight. Regarding the transation and pronunciation I do use that facility but sometimes it offers nothing so i have to guess anyway.
Hello and I've lost count of the number of heated arguments I've had with fine artists over this very issue. They seem to think because it has a commercial purpose it isn't as valuable.
A revelation. There's such an unforced quality to this illustrator's work, an ability to stop precisely when enough has been done, an exuberance: a perfect confidence that he can transmit the imagined onto paper. If you can find more work, more page images, do come back to Stanny for a Part 2 telling us and showing us more.
Hello and I'm delighted by your response to Stanny's remarkable and diverse body of work. Unfortunately what's in the video is pretty much all I could find that's of decent resolution.
What a range of styles to this chap's work. Lovely stuff, thank you. (And now I want a pair of self silencing shoes, too!)
Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm fairly sure that can't really be the title but it's what google translate came up with so who am I to argue?
Always improves the day when a new episode comes out. Terrific after dinner viewing for me down in New Zealand. Appreciate all your work.
Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable comment. It's very welcome.
What an incredible body of work. Thank you Pete.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work. He should be much better known.
Wonderful, you provide information, education and a break from the troubles in the world. I always celebrate a new video with a nice cup of coffee and a cookie, as accompaniment to the feast for the eyes and ears you provide.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's very welcome.
Beautiful art in my eyes. Thanks for sharing this knowledge Pete always the most realist and coolest. 🦾
Hello and thanks for your continued appreciation.
Wonderfully expressive and eccentric illustrator. Thanks again!
Hi and thanks a lot for your positive comment about tis video and Stanny's work.
at the moment i'm struggling through my own picture book. really glad i clicked this today, i feel like i needed to see some of these illustrations!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I hope some of his work was inspirational to you. My personal opinion is that narrative illustration doesn't get any better than his work for Hans Andersen.
What a wonderful artist with such unique creativity - TYVM for making such a great video showcasing this illustrator
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
I just had to stop what I was doing and thank you for yet another great video on yet another amazing artist!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
So much variety in style and complexity. I found it all very appealing (including that weird book title - who wouldn’t give a pair of those to a friend or colleague? ha ha). Whether detailed or just a few lines, the artist’s wit and skill caught my curiosity. And Mr. Beard, from your great opening with the jazzy rider, another pleasure to watch and listen to!
Hello and thanks for your comment. I'm pleased that like me you admire his versatility and enviable creative talent.
Fantastic! I’ve long loved Polish graphic art so another blissful video! What a wonderful illustrator! Fabulous to see such range in his work. It is personally very inspiring too because in the creative world it feels like you have to stay in a very particular style and not deviate, so then it is hard to grow as an artist. His range just gives a big green light! Thank you again for a great video for us all to enjoy and to celebrate the talent and breadth of these illustrators.
Hello again and I'm delighted that you had such a positive response to Stanny;s ridiculously divers body of work. Most of us have to settle for being OK at one thing if we are lucky.
@@petebeardWell thank you again for such great content - you seem to certainly be good at doing these :-)
I had never heard of him and am quite happy that you've presented him here. One of the few moderns (IMHO) who can stand comparison with the greats of the past!
And I love his cats!
Hello and thanks as usual. Its the versatility that astonishes me - and fills me with a somewhat unbecoming envy....
Oh my. This was just great. I love his style!!
Hi and thanks. I'm glad you appreciated his work.
He had an amazing talent. What an impressive imagination. I would very much appreciate having a book of his art. Thank you for this wonderful video. ❤
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. There is such a book available on ebay - if you are fortunate enough to live in the USA. And it's only 10 dollars.
"Criminally little known talent", love it! A wonderfully explorative creative style, thanks so much for sharing!
Hi and thanks for your appreciation, as ever.
Absolutely wonderful illustrations; cant thankyou enough for finding and showcasing Janusz' stuff... your huge showcase project is a gift and encouragement to all modern illustrators and artists... = highlight of the youtube week!
Hello and mny thanks for your particularly positive response to the video and the channel in general.
Your series, Mr Beard, is a wonderful treat. Thank you, sir.
Hello and many thanks for your favourable comment.
Thanks for another incredible video! I learn so much from these. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make them. I had to pause the video several times in absolute shock of how good some of Stanny's illustrations are. Just astounding.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and enthusiastic appreciation of Stannys remarkable talent. I'm pleased you were impressed by it.
It’s great to see this highlight on Polish illustrators, and there’s more names with some wonderful talent that should be more widely recognized. Thank you!
Hello and thanks a lot. I also have Tadeusz Gronowski as a work in progress. If you can send me more name of Polish illustrators (they must be dead to qualify) I would be grateful.
@@petebeard Jan Marcin Szancer and Hanna Czajkowska are the first names to come to mind. There's even a beautiful album with Szancer's collected works -- in Polish, of course -- if you can get your hands on it. I'd personally also recommend looking into Polish poster art, which isnt too far away from such illustrations. After all they all studied under and from one another haha
@@kiddo1392 Hello and thanks a lot for your suggestions. Szancer appeared a long time ago in unsung heroes 16 but I may well return to him for a solo video. There doesn't seem to be enough decent resoltion imagery to make a video about Czajkowska unfortunately but I will look harder.
That was really lovely. Thanks. He certainly commanded a wide range of styles effectively. It is always nice when someone isn't stuck in a rut. I wonder what he was doing during the hiatus? Maybe something completely different.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must say 2 decades with no evidence of creative work seems puzzling, but maybe despite my digging I just didnt find it.
Such an amazing and original illustrator. Thank you for bringing him to us.
Hello and thanks for the comment. It's a pleasure to know the work is appreciated.
Thanks, Pete. An astounding artist and entirely new to me! Wonderfully presented, as usual.
Hello again and my thanks as ever. An enviable talent to be sure.
Thanks again, Pete. You videos never cease to astound and delight.
Hello and thanks for the comment. It's good to know the channel is welcomed - in some quarters at least.
I'd heard about polish graphic design, I'd saw some articles in a Novum or Graphis magazines, now I can put names at one of these talented artist. It's impressive the great arrays of styles, and his use of typo and image to create works of art. Thanks for giving us Janusz Stanny works, it's really inspirational!
Hi Gabriel and thanks for your continuing support. He was too talented to be this forgotten, and there's at least one more great Polish illustrator on his way. Hopefully more.
Such an extraordinary capacity for inventiveness. Had no idea, what a talent! Many thanks Pete.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. I'm glad you appreciate his work.
Stunning and so imaginative. Thank you!
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment.
Let's not forget the political climate he was working in. Every image was heavily scrutinized before publication, including eyes in Moscow. He must have been judged as a loyal comrade to have even this body of work. Someone needs to go to Poland now (or find a local contact) to fully research his work. Thank you, Pete for another revelation.
Perhaps that’s why he was undercover from 1990 to 2011.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must admit it seemed odd to me that all the Polsh sources I found didn't really provide much biographical information. Maybe he was tolerated rather than lauded?
To be honest, for most of the communist period, from 1956 onwards, except for the martial law (December 1981 - July 1983), censorship in Poland was much lighter than in USSR, or most of its satellite states (if not all of them). I think that visual artists enjoyed a particular large amount of relative freedom. At the same time, they weren't so constrained by economic factors as today. For example, there were many Hollywood movies shown in Polish cinemas, with wonderfully unique artistic posters designed in the Polish school. Today, nearly all film posters in Poland are the same bland corporate stuff as everywhere else.
This is really wonderful. Thank you for putting it together.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. It;s very welcome.
It's always a treat finding a pete beard in my subscriptions page.
Hello and Im very pleased you think so.
How many young minds will be inspired to expand their artistic skills with these examples and this channel? Thank you.
Hello and thanks for the comment. The answer to your question is sadly not enough. A view of the make up of my audience reveals that the young (who I thought needed it most) are poorly represented. Such is life.
What a treat to see these works of brilliant art and design with my morning coffee, Pete. Always amazed you can find these lost examples of illustration. I was especially taken by Stanny's bold cover designs, simple yet powerful. Exactly what a book cover should do. And of course his stylized animals, almost abstract, but, as you said, extracting the essence of each animal so the viewer can totally recognize the creature. Wonderful! Another great one. Hope you are staying warm; Provence is gray and miserable these past few days. Maybe you'll treat us to some sunny and warm illustrators for these short, almost winter days?;-) Cheers, Pete!
Hi Doug and thanks for the appreciation. I fail to understand how one man could be so accomplished in so many styles and techniques, and I'm green with envy. I bet I can outdo you in the grey and miserable stakes, but I'm already planning trips to the mediterranean for next year.
Wonderful work. Thanks, as always!
Hi and thanks a lot for your comment.
stunning. Marvelous. Thank you.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
“Cheerfully disturbing” is an unusual, if fitting description - certainly smile inducing. Since the thumbnail was not something that would generally appeal to me, it took a little hop skip and jump over my own shadow to choose this video. And how rewarding that was. Chastened by my prejudice, I found delightful art, so diverse to be astounding. This was a real pleasure to see an artist effortlessly move from the conventional to the cubistic to the surrealistic. Your videos always manage to inform and entertain simultaneously. Thank you
Hello again and of course my gratitude for your comment. Sometimes - as in this instance - it's a virtual impossibility to sum up an illustrator's work with the one defining image. So I'm glad you overcame your indifference to this one and found the remarkable and ridiculously diverse images he created.
Incredible compositions, simply and energetically genius. What a talented artist he was. Thank you very much
Needless to say - but I'll say it anyway - I agree totally with your opinion of Mr. Stanny's work.
An amazing, creative, individual that I had never heard of, whose work seems somewhat mind expanding. Thanks for another great episode Pete.
Hello and thanks for the very favourable comment. He was one of a kind.
This is beautiful. Love the illustrators that work also for kids, this is a lot of memories that are there for your whole life.
Thanks !!
Hello again and thanks as usual for your appreciation of the channel and the illustrators featured.
Thank you as always Mr. Beard & I love his 1985 illustrations for the Tales of Hans Anderson!
Hello again and thanks. And iI absolutely agree about the Andersen pictures. What an imagination.
Thank you again for bringing us such wonderful illustrations and introducing us to the artist. Yet another delightful and educational video.
Looking at the King of the Dardanelles I had thought that he may have used some method of printing for the brickwork but looking closely at it I cannot see any repeated pattern. Though not difficult to do this would be very timeconsumming.
Hello again and thanks for the comment. Its the persistence of his creative imagination that floors me. Oh yes - and his mastery of so many techniques.
As a college student studying illustration, I really appreciate your videos. It's great to learn about the many great artists and illustrators who lived and created before our current times. Cheers! :)
Many thanks for your appreciation, and particularly as you are studying the subject. I had hoped that more of those starting out on the journey would appreciate the channel, but according to youtube most of my viewers and subscribers are over 40. Never expected that.
Again, so uplifting when I feel depressed. Thank you.
Hello again and I'm glad it has that effect.
great response for your new video. mine only has 55 views, after 9 days. LOL. thanks again, Pete, for these wonderful overviews of such wonderful artists.
Hi and thanks a lot for your favourable comment. I wouldn't worry too much about low viewing numbers. It took me almost 8 years to get this far. Sometimes I think I should have made videos about kittens...
Oh my word! Wonderful work that I was previously entirely unaware of. Thank you.
Thanks for another favourable comment. And I'm delighted to have introduced you to Stanny's work
Watched this 4 times I think. First with sound and subtitles, then without. Then stopping at each piece to try and look more closely, to try to grasp how his imagination worked only to then be confronted with a totally different style - that took two visits just to do it in halves. Which was wonderful! Fantasy to realistic and back to abstract again, what a lifetime of indulgence allowed its necessary freedom. Time well spent. Do you ever get 'museum overload' looking at so much art? I would!! But Stanny is one of my all time favorites for sure now. Like another commenter says, more please, if you find enough to make even just a short 5" piece. Meanwhile I'll no doubt come back to this for inspiration. Thank you again, as always. :)
Hello and that's what I call dedication. I'm very pleased you have been seduced by Stanny's ridiculously diverse output. But I'm sorry to say that for now at least I've pretty much unearthed all the Stanny work that's available. And oddly enough I never get jaded making the videos. My own shamefully short attention span leads me to only work on a particular illustrator or video in bursts of a couple of hours. So the variety keeps me on my toes, and in all honesty I just love this stuff too much.
While Stanny's illustration styles vary considerably, they all exhibit extremely controlled use of his chosen media. All the examples you shared with us were wonderfully fresh. How I miss that era of graphic design.
Hello and thanks for the comment as usual. And I echo your sentiment about the graphics of the past.
What an extraordinary and thoroughly inventive artist.
I'm very pleased you appreciate his work. I think he's one of the most fascinating illustrators I've featured in the series.
Just watching this video made my evening so memorable. Thank you fir this body of work as it was awe inspiring. ❤🎉👏👏👍
Many thanks for your appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
absolutely wonderful presentation, mr. beard.
this illustrator is truly a wonder.
hello and thanks. I'm really pleased you are impressed with his remarkable illustrations.
👍🇬🇧🇵🇹Thank you. The perfect video for a rainy afternoon!
Hello again and thanks again for your appreciation. Raining in Portugal? I suppose it must do from time to time. For my sins I live in the wettest part of England.
@@petebeard We are experiencing a lot of precipitation these days. But it's actually good, the drought has been severe. Again, thank you for your beautiful videos and for always answering to the comments. 👍
Jesus I love this channel. Don't change a thing boss. Its perfect.
Your comment is music to my ears. Thanks a lot and there's plenty more in the pipeline.
Another excellent video about an amazing artist!! Thank You🙏🏽💙😎
Hello again, and I'm pleased you enjoyed the video.
Beyond clever. Sheer genius. He has risen above all modern, modernist and abstract artists. Is there even a word for his style?
Hello and the best word I could come up with would be eclectic - but of course that's not really a style anyway. A category of his own - Stanny style maybe?
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Also, I think you used the word “whimsical”. I understand, but I don’t think that word does him justice. That word applies to cartoons. His work was not cartoonish in the slightest. Again, he had risen above that. Anyhow, fantastic work.
Excellent episode. Thank you.
Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it.
Impressive stuff, a real revelation. Thanks, Pete!
Hello and I'm glad you appreciate his remarkable body of work.
Peter Beard. Excelente trabajo. Con cada entrega amplías mucho mas nuestras fronteras en cuanto a la ilustración. Me has sacado de mi pequeña caja, y has abierto horizontes nuevos en este maravilloso arte. Parece que no hay fin para la creatividad y el estilo. Gracias por tu esfuerzo. Saludos.
Hola y muchas gracias por tus comentarios positivos sobre el canal. Significa mucho para mí cuando los espectadores aprecian que estoy tratando de aumentar el conocimiento sobre estos ilustradores.
Wow man thank you for making these videos. Top notch as they say
Hello and many thanks for your support for the channel. Greatly appreciated.
Very interesting to learn about this artist.
Hi again and thanks for the comment.
Wow, another amazing artist I never heard of.
Hello and thanks for the comment. He is barely known outside Poland, unfortunately.
Always like seeing artist from different countries 😀
Hello and many thanks for the recent batch of positive comments. Much appreciated by yours truly.
Hey Pete as always thanks for this!
No problem. Glad you enjoyed his work.
Very charming illustrations! It just feels.... correct, for a lack of a better work.
Just one question, you mention around 4:59 that their illustration are "also refreshingly free of the kind of sentimentality seen in the styling of many other contemporary children's picture books." I imagine more or less what you are talking about, but may I ask for an example of an illustrator of the time? Just to see what that sentimentality looks like.
Besides that, thank you for making your videos! Love getting to know more artists, specially outside the "mainstream" haha
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of the channel content. And the best way to see what I meant is to simply search "1960s children's picture books" in google and select images. Three that jumped out at me were Dogger by Shirley Hughes , Peter and Jane in the Garden by Gwyneth Mamlok and Summer Friends by Jeanette Krinsky. But there are many more of similar qualities.
Just WOW! Again!!
The human imagination literally has no bounds! Tnx!
Hi again and in the case of Stanny that certainly seems to be the case. I'm completely baffled about how it's possible to be so versatile and accomplished. I'd settle for being good at one thing.
For me, this was a review in thirds: One-third I hated; one-third I loved, and one-third elicited almost no reaction at all. I'm thinking this simply *_must_* be genius! ;)
Hi Kevin and I bet I could pinpoint which bits fell into which categories. I like to think there's something (at least) for everyone in the videos. next one up will be more your cup of tea.
When it comes to graphic design and illustration, the Poles are in a league of their own. And Stanny is no exception! Superb work. I first became aware of Polish art in the early '70s via articles in Graphis magazine. Their take on movie posters, in particular were amazing, along with book covers. A hugely differing approach compared to English and American styles.
...and another one. Mea culpa, genuinely.
You know, Pete, a lot of us could be forgiven for feeling that since Andy Warhol and his contemporaries, art had been funnelled down to mostly the likes of Tracey Emin, Damian Hurst, Banksy, etc. It's been a relief to the soul to watch these videos, and find those worthless poops all along drowned in an ocean of wonderful art we knew nothing of. Thanks for the rescue! Obrigado.
Thanks a lot for your comment. And it's good to hear from someone who shares my own low opinion of the bunch of charlatans currently masquerading as artists.
Very interesting!
Hello and thanks for the comment.
Hi Pete.... this artist definitely found his style.
Hi John, and styles plural would sum him up better I think. Now that's what I call versatile.
TS 8:12 I like that skull castle & the frog TS 8:30 People, not just artists but, people making $$$ from what they luv have been given a great gift & I'm sure they know it; but, the art field is so difficult they have been blessed w/ their gift & TS 9:19 that fox is wonderful w/ the flowers growing out of it
Hello again and I must say I agree with your choices - plus the Andersen's disembodied hand image. Thanks as ever for your appreciation.
I enjoy every one of your illustrator’s biographies. This one particularly, such a life time of creativity and innovation!
May I suggest 2 names:
Paul Durand 1925-1977, the french Wikipedia page lists 21 different publishing houses. The example I own: a translation of the Jungle Book at Librairies Delagrave.
NikolaÏ Mikhaĩlovitch Kotcherguine, Russian, 1897-1974, l own only one example, L’hirondelle, a coréen folktale. Éditions la Farandole, Paris VIe. I got it as a school price when I was a kid. I found out that the édition la farandole were run by women only, and was affiliated to the French communist party. My book is part of a collection of folktale from country that had communist regime at the time.
The two illustrators have very different styles. Their images must be the first in my life that impressed me.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video. Paul Durand I was not aware of, so I will investigate and see what I can find. Nikolai Kochergin (in English) is already on my list, although I don't think there is that much to be found by or about him so he is probably going to appear as an unsung hero. I really am grateful for your suggestions but please don't expect to see anything any time soon as I already have dozens of others in the pipeline ahead of them.
Thanks, Pete!
Hello and thanks to you for the appreciation, and for leading me to the immersive film about your own wonderful paintings and the American South.
Wow! Speak of variety and non conformity! What a daring visionary!!! Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis
Hi again and I'll second that.
2:08 title of the book "About a painter ginger as a brick''
Thanks for the clarification.
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glad to help
ps. have you done or intend to do one on Ralph Sallon 1899 - 1999?
thanx
@@papaunderwater3316 Hello again. Thanks a lot for the suggestion, and I didn't previously know of his existence. But a quick search reveals a worrying shortage of decent resolution pictures. I'll have a more serious search and if I find enough I'll feature him - but don't be surprised if I can't. Either way I always welcome suggestions.
@@petebeard ok., either way thanx for your work, I find it very entertaining and well produced
Many of the children books contain verses, and I remember learning some of them.. They were funny which encouraged children to memorize them
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video.
Thanks for this!!
You are very welcome.
Lovely. Thank you...
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
Wow . Thsnk you. And Wow again, with love.
Hello and you are more than welcome. Thanks for your appreciation.
That indeed was pure awesome...well done Pete! I have to add that this sort of art (to me) seems cold and dated... very 50-60's abstract. Being told it is good makes me cringe having grown up on Vargas, Petty, Disney... Rockwell... all the Masters... I never had any interest in the stark/dark and what I term loose and childlike work of the Cubist and primitive... Now I can appreciate better thanks to your historical perspective. Great job! I should also thank you for presenting many artists who are now a part of my book collection!
Hello again, and thanks a lot for the comment. I try to cover as many of the stylistic bases as I can rather than just my own personal preferences. As an old man I now realise that what I like is fairly immaterial - it's what is worthy of respect that really counts.
I must say that personally a large portion of its work I find a bit too "artsy" for my perhaps slightly uneducated taste, but undoubtfully he was a very creative and competent artist. From what was shown in this videom his later works are those I like the most.
Hello and thanks for the comment. He certainly pushed at various boundaries and for many I suspect he is an acquired taste. But there's no denying his valuable contribution.
This is amazing art!
Hello and thanks - and of course I agree totally.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thanks *Pete*
Ojalá mas gente pudiera ver este contenido
Hola, y yo también. Pero el canal está creciendo, aunque más lento de lo que me gustaría.
wow, just wow!!
Hi and thanks a lot for both your recent comments.
Wow, how can this be one person?
Thanks for the comment, and he does rather defy all the laws of physics. Versatility on an unimaginable scale.
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Thanks for the response.
Do Kate Seredy & Wanda Gag, please.
Hello. Wanda gag had already featured in unsung heroes 25 and Kate Seredy is waiting in line for her turn in another as yet unmade. Unfortunately neither of them have enough high resolution images to make solo videos with.
Top notch...E...
Hello sir and thanks a bunch.
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Hello and thanks for the comment.
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Thanks for the thumbs up.
It's great that children's books in communism era were not as dull and gray as other things back than. I remember a lot of them - they were fantastic addition to the stories.
ps. If I can have a little tip - cause I guess figuring out how to spell polish (or other) names can sometimes be a nightmare - try google translate it has a spell function and it works very nicely.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and insight. Regarding the transation and pronunciation I do use that facility but sometimes it offers nothing so i have to guess anyway.
It’s always dumbfounded me, as to why illustration of this quantity is not classified as great art….because it is.
Hello and I've lost count of the number of heated arguments I've had with fine artists over this very issue. They seem to think because it has a commercial purpose it isn't as valuable.
PETE BEARD THE BEST!!!
Hi and thanks a lot for the comment.
Self-silencing shoes!!?
A good name for a rock band.