People and Place part 3: Research - Reporting and Documenting 3.2
Part of this task I researched a list of artists, this list includes contemporary and historical artists who are known in particular for their work as reportage illustrators.
Laura Carlin
Paul Hogarth
Veronica Lawlor
David Gentleman
Olivier Kugler
Lucinda Rogers
George Butler
Chloe Regan
Emmanuel Guilbert
Agnes Dechourchelle
Evan Turk
Louis Netter
Maurice Sasek
After looking through all of their works I picked a few of my favourites. Thought I just comment on the few images from each. I already previously researched Veronica Lawlor and wrote what I felt about it.
Olivier Kugler - http://www.olivierkugler.com/life_drawing_reportage-portraits.html
I really like Kugler’s work, the blocky colours and unfinished line work is really unique, He uses odd pieces of colours in an image and then leaves just shapes and lines of building and such. The coloured parts are added on the computer after it is physically draw; it's like Olivier is making those parts the focus and sometimes adds descriptions or words to give a bit more context. I like his cartoonish style it’s fun and abstract like.
George Butler - https://www.georgebutler.org/reportage
Butler's work stylistically is similar to Olivier Kugler’s in the way he too doesn't colour the whole image he just leaves uncompleted shapes and lines in the environment only having focus on certain parts. He does however use watercolour and traditional medias and no text. His line work is softer and there is a lot more shades and tonal value especially in the fully coloured parts. This technique is like the focus on the camera where a certain object is clear, and the rest is blurry, but he has still pencilled in the necessary detail for you to make out the scene.
Both Butler and Kugler’s reportage are often capturing war zones, refugees, people or places in crisis.
Both Butler and Kuglers reportage are often captruing war zones, refugees, people or places in crisis.
Louis Netter- http://www.louisnetter.com/reportage
Louis Netter's drawings are some of my favourites out of the list of artists. He really makes the people around him into characters, he exaggerates features and gives them childish expressions they remind me a bit of an old children’s book. I like the quickness of the sketching too the shading is scribbled and lines although some dark look quick like the pencil remains loose as he draws these people. His reportage drawings are usually done when he is travelling so he captures everyday things and people in those places he visits.
Agnes Decnourchelle- http://agnesdecourchelle.com/communication
Decourchelle has a lot more colour compares to the other artists above, I really love the use of ink and watercolours. It also looks like on the darker silhouette figures and pictures he uses a dry brush, and it makes the middle extremely bold but the edges wispy. I also like in those water-coloured paintings that the line work isn’t always connected, he’s not afraid to use the white of the page to use as lighter parts of the picture. He does some sketchbook work that is drawn with markers, pens, and fine liners. The whole page is usually covered and yet he still leaves little bits of the background as those lighter colours. His reportage work is also usually done when travelling and everyday people.
Evan Turk - http://evanturk.com/reportage01a.html
Evan Turk also uses a similar technique to Kugler and Butler where his pictures have uncoloured and less detailed parts of the image, another element Turk has though is a difference in styles. You can still tell he has drew all of them, but his line work varies and sometimes his figures and shapes are a lot more accurate than others, I think this is only because of capturing people who are moving would require him to work fast. The bottom image I really like how the people and horse are painted in like ghosts; they are not them most important part of the picture, but they really stand out. It's like looking back in time where the building stays the same, but the people come and go. His use of colours is lovely too, he uses bright and similar colours in each. Oranges, yellows, blues, pinks, and bits or red are really warm like you are experiencing the atmosphere of the place through these colours. His reportage also revolves around travelling.
The other artists on the list have great work too but these were my favourites.
After this I read 3 articles about 'the use of reportage illustration to reflect on what
happens specifically in the visual reporting of war, by illustrators, from both an
historical and contemporary perspective.'
http://eyemagazine.com/feature/article/ardizzone-at-peace-and-in-conflict
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/olivier-kugler-bearing-witness
http://eyemagazine.com/opinion/article/framing-the-evidence-of-war
The articles are and interesting insight into how these artists capture an experience such as war through drawing or a camera. Ardizzone wasn’t just an observer of war he lived through it, his work and sketches depict human behaviours and a lot of figures in their backgrounds, there wasn’t much detail for faces. His work very raw and the dark colours really create a sense of reality. Kugler on the other hand takes people fled from war and danger and interviews them or people in general. An element of his work is the playful descriptions and colours, there is a personality to each of his drawing because of this. He also finds taking photos is a lot easier than getting people to sit there while he sketches them. The camera captures everything, so he works from what he sees in those photos and then digitally renders them with all the extra writing and colours. French photographer Didier Lefèvre, graphic novelist Emmanuel Guibert and graphic designer Frédéric Lemercier all collaborated on a book where each communicated a scene or their travels, one writing, another photographing and other drawing. All these three techniques help piece together every angle and context of a location; there is so much visual information that each party brings to a reader. It’s like looking through the eyes of all three and getting to see what moments they chose to focus on.
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