THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF AUSTIN BRIGGS HD
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In the USA Austin Briggs has a fairly solid reputation among many contemporary illustrators and those with an interest in the subject. But the very American nature of his work has meant that he is much less well known elsewhere on the planet. He was one of a group of illustrators who followed Norman Rockwell and his contemporaries as essentially representational illustrators, but who also developed more modernist expressionistic techniques more suited to postwar sensibilities. I hope you enjoy this look at his work.
And for those who have the misfortune to not be British, we don't pronounce gouache as gwash. We pronounce it properly.
The tasteful groove of the music only improves the experience of admiring the art so elegantly described by Mr. Beard.
Nice of you to say so. Thanks a lot.
The music you choose is perfect. I almost want to light an unfiltered cigarette and sip a martini in my Mid-Century Modern house, while watching Magnificent Obsession.
Thanks a lot for the comment. I'm hampered in the choice of music because of copyright issues but I try my best to make it sympathetic at least.
@@petebeard you have great taste in art and available appropriately sympathetic music.
Austin Briggs is a master, I especially love his sketches.
Thanks for the comment
Man, what a treat… Austin Briggs was one of my favorites from the Famous Artist courses. Those guys just knew how to build an image. You know they used models and photo reference, but I'm alway impressed by their ability to depict textures, facial expressions and emotions, and to tell the whole story clearly in one shot. And you've managed to find quite a few images I hadn't seen before… Knockout work! Thanks, as always Pete for your dedication to putting these online for us to enjoy.
You are very welcome, and thanks a lot for your appreciation of my efforts with the channel.
As someone who has actually drawn a FLASH GORDON Sunday strip for King Feature, I was delighted to see that your new video was about Austin Briggs! I quite enjoyed it! Briggs used reference photos, live models, props and whatever else who could to create his illustrations. I've always appreciated his realistic approach to drawing, but he could draw without models and all that. As you point out, he had a lot of artistic abilities that he employed during various points and his career. He seemed to enjoy doing stylized and (often) more creative work as much of the more traditional realistic illustration. He absolutely was a perfectionist, based on what I've gleaned from artists who actually knew him. I can relate. I'm often my own worst critic, but I think you sort of have to be if you wish to continue to grow as an artist and do better work.
Thank you, Pete, for always giving your subscribers wonderful information and insight, and especially this time around for showcasing the work of one of my favorites.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and insights about Briggs's work. And maybe it slipped what's left of my mind, but I'm fairly sure I didn't know you were an illustrator. And now I see you are an exceptionally talented one, judging by your web presence. Would you be offended if I said I saw some influence from Edd Cartier?
He was a BEAST! One of my favorites! Thank you very much!!! (Was the master of getting expressions without drawing a face!)
Thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed the video of his work.
Good Lord what a talent , imagine seeing this work on a regular basis as you went about your day.
Thanks for the comment. Life used to be more visually stimulating for the masses once upon a time.
Never heard of Briggs but what a monochrome master with great shadows. Plus comics which requires so much flexibility and speed. Thank you for introducing him!
Thanks again for your appreciation, and it's always a bonus to know I might have made a new convert.
The name behind the distinct artwork in some of the US magazines that found its way to my country, is so familiar in my childhood and early teens.
I don't think anybody who saw this episode, wouldn’t envy his talent AND good fortune, which allowed him to earn enough to retire in Paris, just to paint!
Thank you, Pete, for another gem!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of this video, and Briggs's remarkable body of work.
I absolutely love Austin Briggs. His style is iconic, and his love for people and life really shines through.
Thanks a lot for your comment.
Incredible dexterity.
Well done Pete.
Thanks for your appreciation from me and Mr. Briggs.
Wow, positively magnificent!
I'm glad you enjoyed this video and Briggs's remarkable work. Thanks for the comment as always.
Austin Briggs was one of my heroes when I was growing up. Like you said, there was no shortage of great American illustrators at that time. Thanks for creating this wonderful video about him.
Thanks for the comment. Somebody I spoke to about it said he reckons that it was a second golden age in the USA. He's got a point.
Always a real pleasure, thanks as always, Pete...keep up the great work that you do, cheers...E...😊😊😊
Always a real pleasure, when the work is appreciated.
There is something very pleasing about these images of American life from the past.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and I feel similarly about the same period in my country too.
To my eye, the most stylistically diverse artist you have featured
Thanks for the comment.
You said it right; he was a great in a generation of greats. It's remarkable that one artist could ape the smooth style of Alex Raymond, produce highly resolved gouache paintings and also pull off such adroitly handled loose drawings in a variety of media. What a talent.
Hello and many thanks for your continued appreciation of the content on the channel. He really had an exceptional talent.
His work makes you interested in what ever it was the subject was doing or saying because they were so engaged in it. I must admit all through school illustrations were everywhere and I am embarrassed to say that we never gave a thought about who made all these illustrations that we learn from, because they were so common place. Now it's a treat as they become rare. Thanks Pete.
There's a great old soul song called "You don't miss your water til your well runs dry" which encapsulates your sentiment rather well. Illustration used to be everywhere in better times.
I don't know if this violates the UA-cam Community Guidelines, but this is what I want to say here: Like many with me, I am again very grateful that you brought to our attention the existence of such GIANTS of the Illustration world of the last century! Indeed, as an adolescent, I owned one of those wonderful editions of Flash Gordon, which I unfortunately lost and in the years that followed, I very often wondered who exactly was the illustrator of Flash Gordon and thanks to You I now know.
On the Flash Gorodn Wiki I read: He was an assistant to Alex Raymond on the Flash Gordon comic strip, and was the first artist/writer on the Flash Gordon daily strip, from 1940 to 1944. In 1944, Briggs also took over the Sunday strips.
I'm not sure how you think your comment might meet with didapproval from my masters, but either way I'm immensely grateful for it. It's a good feeling to know that viewers such as yourself welcome the content. If you haven't seen it there's a feature on Alex Raymond in unsung heroes 20.
Briggs work remembered me an exclamation - pretending to be a kind of admiration sense - of a young man - seeing an illustator making art - who said: " it's fabulous! Seems a photography!".
The young man never knew that his words are far away of an "admiration" meaning!
Great, another great video of a giant artist. Thanks Pete!
Hello again and thanks as usuak for your appreciation and comments. I hope you are enjoying life in the sun.
This was truly an artist of the 20th century! He could have given Rockwell a run for his money, and then there are also the line drawings and sketches! I loved the way he highlighted and set the mood with his cross-hatching. One thing that struck me: it all looks so......familiar! And then I realized I have been seeing artwork like this for my entire life (yes, I was born in 1960)...
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of Briggs's remarkable talent.
I've always loved the American artwork of the forties and fifties. Maybe it's the eternal blue skies and sunshine, or maybe it's the Art Nouveau style of the period, but Briggs just captured that longing for the exotic that could only exist in the fantasy of us Europeans of the time.
Thank you as always Pete.
It's always a great pleasure to get favourable comments from a video upload, so thanks a lot for yours.
Thanks Peter. I love your brief and heartfelt presentations.
Many thanks for your appreciation - always a welcome tonic.
What a remarkably talented and eclectic artist. It’s hard to imagine someone more versatile . The music is perfect.
I'm glad you enjoyed his work, and thanks for your appreciation.
Being a child of the 1970s - I feel I know this illustrator instinctively. The line work especially was celebrated everywhere, either his or his admirers. His expressionistic approach is a marvel of Hijacking the Audiences Faculties. A possible inspiration to the Super Flat work of Patrick Nagel.
Thanks a lot for your comment, appreciation and subscription. All very welcome.
Another fantastic installment, thank you Mr. Beard
Your appreciation is very welcome. Thanks.
Excellent video Pete.
Remarkable illustrator. Such a shame he passed just as he was able to relax and do what he wanted. He was surely prolific in those short years though.
Thanks for always creating the finest content and for breathing life into another unsung artist hero.
Thanks as always for your comment and kind words about my efforts.
Thanks Pete great job
Thanks for your apprecciation. Always welcome.
Loved his comic strip and sketch line work. A top favorite artist.
Thanks a lot for your comment.
I agree with all the complimentary comments regarding Mr. Briggs and Pete Beard's video. In a small degree of separation, I was once in Briggs' Westport, CT studio and home. At the time, it was owned by Ed Vebell, another famous illustrator. Ed, who had an excellent business renting the costumes he'd acquired, most during WWII, was lending me props and uniforms for an illustrated edition of The Three Musketeers. I think Briggs moved to a new place in Westport after he sold his house to my friend. There was a story on his latest studio in a magazine (I think I saw a reprint of it), and it was nothing like the one I visited.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of this video and Briggs's remarkable output. Being English I'm sure a lot of the ethos of his very American work is beyond me, but he seems to have encapsulated the mid century USA and its attitudes so very well.
Iconic for those who were alive in that era, certainly, who paid especial attention to artwork in media back then. I immediately fell into many of these illustrations, somewhere in my brain recognizing the style if not the subject matter. Though must confess I prefer his later abstract style? It displayed his same intensity to 'get it right' but with a new vision. Or maybe it's because I've become more abstract as I age. :D Loved seeing the preliminaries, as always! An extraordinary talent, I'm so glad he was able to become successful, leaving lots to offer those in training to hopefully replicate as they gain their own footing. I'd have appreciated seeing these back in school, I know that much. Thanks as always, Pete!
Hello again and thanks as usual for your continuing appreciation of the channel content. I too found it interesting how his style became looser but more individualistic and expressive.
What a career! I knew of his work from "Blue Book" and the Famous Artist's School but wasn't aware of the breadth of his stylistic abilities. The gestural approach he embraced during the 1950's and '60's really was satisfyingly effective. Another fantastic video. Thank you!
Hello again and thanks for another positive response. It never ceases to amaze me just how many American illustrators served time with the pulps.
@@petebeard and in the comics. That's what always surprises me.
One of my favorite illustrators ever!
Thanks for the comment.
Briggs was impressively versatile in many mediums. I admire his masterly of lighting in his compositions.
Thanks a lot for your comment.
What a talent! His composures are mind blowing!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of his work.
Another great post. As a collector of old magazines and pulp fiction covers it's wonderful to learn about these obscure artists who remain anonymous without your peerless research. Thanks Pete.
Your appreciation of my efforst with the channel is very welcome, thanks a lot.
Yet again, I'm in awe of the talent that your channel showcases. I especially liked the depth of your analysis that shared many technical insights and highlighted Briggs total mastery of his art.
hello again, and many thanks for yet another favourable comment. Much appreciated.
Such entertaining and educational posts. Thank you.
Thanks for your appreciation.
While, watching your videos; I feel the taste, of the "Woman's Home
Companion" magazines of the 1928s...
( Sorry, for my primitive English)
Thank you very much..
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As always your appreciation is most welcome.
I always really enjoy your videos. Thank you. Cheers from Alberta Canada!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation.
Again...... Well done Mr Beard
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another excellent entry; thanks!
Thanks a lot for the appreciation.
Thanks Pete!
My pleasure.
Love it. Thankvyou again.
Thanks a lot - appreciation is always welcome.
So visual and expressive. Great pictures, really enjoying the gift box in which you're presenting his work to us! Again thanks .
Your ongoing appreciation and regular comments never fail to make my day better.
Blimey, the reflections on the bodywork of the green car (Hertz Ad near end) blows my mind. So liquid.
I'd come to this video having just finished one on the topic of Franklin Booth's line-work. It's a lovely thematic transition from Booth to Briggs' initial B/w illustration work.
Thanks again, Pete! 😊
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. And I hope you'll be pleased to know that a video devoted entirely to Franklin Booth is nearing completion and will be uploaded in a few weeks' time.
Outstanding edition, Pete! Thank you. Briggs was a monster talent, for sure.
Thanks for the comment, and I'm pleased you appreciate his work.
Beautifully made video with a gracious amount of care and detail. Thank you for making these !
Many thanks for your appreciation of my efforts and the work that goes into making these videos.
OMG! Loved this one ! Not only the (familiar) illustrations, but your writing and story telling. Bravo! a g a i n !
...and another very welcome comment from you. It really is good to know.
As always a really well put together video. I don't usually comment but I hope you keep making these, they're brilliant
Thanks and there's no obligation to comment. A subscription is more than enough for me.
What a talent! I wish I had 1%. Thanks, Pete, for another pleasant journey.
Thanks as ever for your comment and appreciation.
A true professional, doing what was needed (but still following his ideas) to navigate between the everydays and the fantasies (dark or otherwise) of his viewership. Makes me wonder what such a man might portray -- and how -- of our present day!
Thanks as usual for your considered response.
Thank you, Pete. Another amazing exposé covering one of the greatness.
Thanks as ever for your comment and appreciation.
Pete, thanks for this expose of another great illustrator whose excellent work I may have otherwise missed.
My pleasure to introduce viewers to these under-appreciated talents. Thanks.
Wow! New artist for me - phenomenal! Wonderful music and narration - thank you
Many thanks for your favourable response to this video.
Lovely. Many thanks Mr. Pete.
Thanks a lot for your favourable comment. Im glad you enjoyed it.
Wow...nothing can be added to describe such an impressive artistic talent. Equally impressive are his composition skills, always flawless. And, of course, your extremely well made content makes him justice.
I'm pleaed you enjoyed the video. Thanks a lot for your comment.
Thank you, Pete Beard - interesting, informative, and I look forward to recognizing his work ~
Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
A delightful and distinctive style~
Thabks a lot for your comment, and continuing interest.
What a master of light and shade. And as others have said here, a great selection of music on your part too.
Danke. Cheers from cloudy Vienna, Scott
Thanks a lot as always. As I was reading your comment I was in the middle of making a sequence about a Viennese illustrator, Mila Von Lüttich. I wonder if she's represented in any galleries there.
Excellent job on the video. Beautiful illustrations that I have never seen.
Many thanks for your favourable comment.
Splendid. Briggs was a master.
Absolutely, and I may well make videos about some of his progressive American contemporaries in the future.
Nice one, Pete! Great video. His use of the figure compositionally is fantastic. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for your appreciation, and admiration for this illustrator's immense talent.
Damn, that was good! I didn't want the parade of images to come to an end. Thanks, Pete.
I'm glad you appreciate his work - thanks a lot for your comment.
Fantastic. Thank you!
Thnaks once more for your favourable response.
Excellent Short Doc. i've always loved his work.
Thanks for your appreciation.
Austin Briggs
I can remember seeing examples of Mr. Briggs' unique style in magazines when I was a kid, most likely in The Saturday Evening Post. I loved seeing so many car ads from those mid-Fifties (1953/54/58) Chevrolets to the odd Oldsmobile and Buick.
Another illustrator that died way too young. JJS
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation of Briggs's work.
Always interesting.
Thanks a lot.
Amazing to follow him through the different periods. I wonder if anyone who wanted to learn to draw like that, could even find a good school course today?
Thanks for the comment. Actually I'm not convinced you can learn to draw like that. Seems to me it's an innate gift.
Thank you for this!
You are most welcome.
I love your channel. Wonderful.
Music to my ears. Thanks a lot.
Nicely done, as always!
Thanks a lot. It's good to know the channel is appreciated.
Beautiful
Thanks from me and Mr. Briggs.
Excellent overview Mr Beard for this fine illustrator...so versatile and strong.
Thanks a lot, and I'm glad you appreciate Briggs's work.
What a wonderful talent! He was certainly versatile, but I feel sure I have seen his work and didn't read his discreet signature. Every illustrator should be bold as NORMAN ROCKWELL, then we would all know their names.
Thanks as usual for your comment and appreciation.
Thank you.
...and thanks for your appreciation.
Clever artist ❤
Thanks - I'm glad you appreciate his work.
He did well for himself but, it is sad he died the way & age he died at ... age 65 & from a cancer. At least he experienced a nice career & getting to live in Paris, France was a gift & a treat ...of course he earned his treat
Hello again, and we are all at the mercy of our health. It was very bad timing in the case of Austin Briggs, though. And thanks for another 5 stars.
Thanks again Pete! Wow what a versatile artist.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Amazing.
I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
Thanks!
My pleasure.
Pete, Hi!.... today, cloudly saturday, with my son Stefano, we've been visiting Cap Ferrat, at Sitges and I've just talking about you and your UA-cam videos with a photographer who are presenting a very special exposition.....
Hello again and Sitges is a town I really like. We have been there a couple of times. And thanks for spreading the word about my channel.
I could look at *_all_* of Briggs' work (but especially the line work) for hours! As an illustration student in the early '70s, AB's work, or at least its second-hand influence, was still a much-loved inspiration for classwork. I was unaware at that time of his involvement with _Flash Gordon:_ I wish that his own sensibilities had been more in evidence, rather than his laudable adherence to Raymond's style. But of course, that was an editorial and business decision. Briggs was as a great artist in many areas of illustration, from pulps to full-color advertising.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and your observation about him highlights just one of the key differences between illustrators and artists. Can you imagine Picasso agreeing to make a picture in the style of Dali?
nice video!!! thanks
Thanks for your appreciation.
Thanks for another great video. have you ever heard of the British artist/illustrator Ralph Thompson; he specialised in absolutely gorgeous, fluid drawings and pen and wash images of animals. I assumed he was mainly just an artist, but some more research shows he did quite a lot of illustration, especially for Gerald Durrell books. Well worth checking out, and maybe considering for an Unsung video. (Assuming you haven’t covered him already without me realising!) All the best
Thanks for the comment, and more thanks for Ralph Thomson - a new name to me. Sadly he was born just too late to qualify for unsung heroes (1910 cutoff)...but I'm in the middle of what's turning into somewhat of an epic about wildlife illustration, and he will feature in that for sure. Thanks again.
"Je comprend!" Only horses for only unsung illustrators, and, For every other online essay: an illustration of any subject that best typifies the sole subject's work. thank You! By George, I think: I've got it.
Another great talent. Thank you. Do you compose the music?
Thanks a lot. I have composed and played music on some videos but it takes longer to do that than make the videos so I've pretty much given up on it. These tunes are all from UA-cam's audio library.
Another winner Pete! By the way, I thought gulash was a beefy casserole (please explain!) Anyways, thanks for your visual oasis in this Dry Land we inhabit. All the best, from Aotearoa 🎉
Thanks for the comment. And my pronunciation of goo-ash is from its French origin. I know in the USA and seemingly other colonies such as your own it's gwash, but here it's a definite goo sound.
A bit OT but I was unable to find any mention of American illustrator Virginia Frances Sterrett on your channel. Do you have meta tags that I could search? Thx
Hello - she appeared in unsung heroes of illustration 11. If you put that in a youtube search you'll find it. Sorry its not longer - there isn't that much to be had by or about her.
Mahn.. this guy could draw…
Very true.Thanks for the comment.
Wrightson must’ve seen this and got inspired.
Probably so, but according to Wrightson himself his main influence was Franklin Booth (coming up in a couple of videos time).
Briggs' work is exceptional, but yes, he relied heavily on photography, not there's anything wrong with that.
Thanks a lot for the comment.
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Do Thomas kinkade.
Im sorry but not my kind of thing at all. Technically he was an artist, not an illustrator.
Gag me with a spoon! I was embarrassed when I visited the town square in my birthplace of Fort Worth, Texas to find a Kinkade gallery there. In contrast, a bookstore a few doors down offered a hardback copy of the title, "The Stamp Art and Postal History of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna" which I was pleased to acquire.
I'm the first commenter! YAY! Pete will now be sending me my prize: a 27" Huion Display Tablet, postage paid! Y'all heard it here first!
It's already in the post, sir.
-i don't understand how artist can make these elaborate pages just in black and white. (@--1:11--) (@--2:22--)- I'm guessing he's doing it in pencil first, then overlaying the black.i am an idiot, of course he did.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and it's easy to imagine these major talents don't need to follow the usual rules the rest of us work by. But they are mortal after all.
Uh,you know the real reason why correspondence courses can be pretty lucrative?
I have my own ideas but I'd like to hear yours.
Hello Pete Beard, can I suggest that you make a video about Carlos Sáenz de Tejada y Lezama?, he was a great Spanish illustrator and painter, unfortunately there is little about him on the internet
Hello and many thanks for your suggestion. I had never heard of him, but as you say in your comment there is very little to be found by him or about him. I can only work with what is available, but I might be able to make a small feature in one of the unsung heroes series when I start agin later this year. If I can, I will.
excellent artist, but at the end I thought the head with the lantern was controversial
Head? Lantern? where's that then?
@@petebeard 13:44 we see a dialogue between two men and the head of one of them (the employee) is blocked by a white lantern, in my humble opinion this is not entirely correct. I am sorry for my English
@@x0747 Thanks for the clarification - I really had not noticed it. There doesn't seem to be any problem with your English, and thanks for watching.
I follow Call me Chato on YT and Pete Beard is an exemplar of Chato's promotion of the creativity and communication that UA-cam allows. ps Chato is very funny on the current visual media scene.
Thanks a lot for your comment.