Compositional Influencers: Geometry, Framing, Eyeline of Subjects, Diagonals, Focus, Scale, Subject Close to Light, Guiding Lines
Straight v. Curves -
Batman, Bruce Timm
Poison Ivy, Bruce Timm
Batgirl, Bruce Timm
Rapunzel - Tangled, Glen Keane
Pocahontas, Glen Keane
Planes of the Head -
Charley Harper -
Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist.
He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and
book illustrations.
Born Charles Burton Harper in Frenchton, West Virginia in 1922, Harper's
upbringing on his family farm influenced his work to his last days. (Wikipedia)
For more than sixty years Charley Harper’s vivid, often humorous
paintings have delighted art and animal lovers, transporting viewers
into the natural world via lively but self-described flat images that
don’t lay claim to the third dimension. Rather, his paintings of
colorful canyons, teeming coral reefs, and, above all, brilliant birds, emphasize hard-edged simplicity. Harper (American, 1922–2007) expressed
his deep appreciation of nature through his design, forming the
innovative “minimal realism” that would become his artistic hallmark and
inspire an entire generation of artists and designers.
Jobs in London 1890 -
Women made up 1/3 of the paid workforce.Different classes did different jobs and men
and women had some different jobs too.Some upper-class women didn’t even work.
Most women
worked at retail shops, textile mills, and other factories.Poor and working class women did hard, dirty,
and dangerous jobs like coal loading and sorting, brickmaking, and trash
collecting.Some jobs women did are:
Needle work, Actor, Artist, Author, Auctioneer, Basket Maker, Bead Maker,
Butcher, Baker, Glove and Cap Maker, Midwifes, and Governesses.These are just a few there are many jobs a
women could attain.
Men in the
Victorian age worked almost all of the jobs.Here are a few jobs men would do.Farmer, Blacksmith, Butcher, Bricklayer, Carpenter, Clock smith,
Fisherman, Barber, Doctor, Teacher, Bookmakers, Lawyers, Coach Drivers, and
Clerks.
Men and
women sometimes shared the same jobs.Other times they did not. Occupations in the Victorian age depended on
class and gender.
Lace Makers
Lamp Lighter
Railway Porter
Milkman
Arrow & Dart Fletcher
Paper Boys/Newsies
Salt Miners
Hop Stringer/Stilt Walker
Wheelwrught
Barber
Printers
Street Vendor
Hat Vendor
Fireworks Factory Workers
Lift Operator
Beer Hop Pickers
Character Proportion -
The "MacGuffin", HG Wells -
In fiction, a MacGuffin is an object, device, or event that is
necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but
insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself. The term was
originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and
later extended to a similar device in fiction. (Wikipedia)
Herbert George Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in
many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of
social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, and
even including two books on recreational war games.
Visionary writer H.G. Wells was born Herbert George Wells on September
21, 1866, in Bromley, England. Wells came from a working class
background. His father played professional cricket and ran a hardware
store for a time. Wells's parents were often worried about his poor
health. They were afraid that he might die young, as his older sister
had. At the age of 7, Wells had an accident that left him bedridden for
several months. During this time, the avid young reader went through
many books, including some by Washington Irving and Charles Dickens.
In 1895, Wells became an overnight literary sensation with the publication of the novel The Time Machine.
The book was about an English scientist who develops a time travel
machine. While entertaining, the work also explored social and
scientific topics, from class conflict to evolution. These themes
recurred in some of his other popular works from this time.
In 1891, Wells married his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells, but the union
didn't last. Wells soon took up with Amy Catherine "Jane" Robbins and
the pair married in 1895 after he officially divorced Isabel. He and
Jane had two children together, sons George Philip and Frank.
In 1895, Wells became an overnight literary sensation with the publication of the novel The Time Machine.
The book was about an English scientist who develops a time travel
machine. While entertaining, the work also explored social and
scientific topics, from class conflict to evolution. These themes
recurred in some of his other popular works from this time.
Wells remained productive until the very end of his life, but his
attitude seemed to darken in his final days. Among his last works was
1945's "Mind at the End of Its Tether," a pessimistic essay in which
Wells contemplates the end of humanity. Some critics speculated that
Wells's declining health shaped this prediction of a future without
hope.
He died on August 13, 1946, in London.
The Villian, Aleister Crowley -
Aleister Crowley original name Edward Alexander Crowley, (born October 12, 1875, Royal Leamington Spa, England—died December 1, 1947, Hastings), was an English occultist, ceremonial magician,
poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of
Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding
humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century (Wikipedia).
Aleister Crowley
His parents were members of the Plymouth Brethren, an extremely devout Christian sect. It was in this Christian childhood that he came to refer to himself as The Beast 666. He was also fortunate to be heir to a small brewing fortune, which he largely used for travel and publishing his works over his lifetime.
Boleskin House
He entered Trinity College at Cambridge in 1895, and left just before finishing his degree. He was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898. The next year he purchased Boleskine House at Loch Ness in order to perform the ritual known as the Abro-Melin Operation. (Thelemapedia.org)
Trinity College, Cambridge
A brilliant climber, big game hunter, and inveterate traveller, Crowley
explored Mexico, India, Egypt, America, and much more besides. In the
first two decades of the twentieth century, he wrote a series of tracts
outlining his philosophy. The Law of Thelema – a word taken from the
Greek for Will – was, he claimed, dictated to him by an ancient Egyptian
spirit. It laid out the key principle of life, as Crowley saw it: the
pursuit of each individual’s will, unconstrained by popular opinion,
law, or conventional ethics.
In 1920, he moved to Sicily, where he established the Abbey of
Thelema as the headquarters for his new religion. Here he pursued
spiritual enlightenment, declaring himself Ipssissimus – beyond the Gods
– in 1921.
He also experimented with sex and drugs. In 1923 an Englishman died
in mysterious circumstances after a ritual during which he was said to
have consumed the blood of a cat. The British press and the Italian
fascist government were equally appalled. Crowley was expelled from
Sicily, the Abbey closed, and the group dispersed. During the Thelema Abbey scandal, one newspaper referred to Crowley
as ‘the wickedest man in the world.’ He would have denied this, claiming
that his work was truly good because it freed men from earthly rules
and opened up truly spiritual experiences. But there can be no doubt that he also enjoyed his notoriety, and his
fame only increased after death. There are still groups who call
themselves Thelemites; still those who use his tarot cards and read his
books. He was taken up by the counter culture of the 1960s and can be
seen on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band albumbetween the Indian guru Sri Yukteswar and the Hollywood star Mae West.
Sgt Pepper Album Cover
Although impoverished, disgraced, and a near-skeletal heroin addict,
Crowley never lacked followers. He fathered several children, most of
them illegitimately, and was still in demand as a medium and a magus to
the end, designing a new sequence of tarot cards and commentating on it
at some length in his Book of Thoth of 1944. He died, in Hastings, in 1947. (nationaltrust.org.uk)
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