Saturday, February 12, 2011

Informative Comparative Look

To some followers of Mucha, these images won't be new. But to others, it could be an informative comparative look at Mucha's reference photos and the resulting works.

Mucha
— Poster for The Spring Festival of Song & Music in Prague —
1914


Mucha — Emerald — 1909


Mucha — Poster for The Regional Fair at Ivančice — 1912


Mucha — A plate from Documents Décoratifs — 1899


Mucha — study for the cover of Cloches de Noël et de Pâques —1900


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6 comments:

  1. Kendra MeltonFebruary 12, 2011 at 11:14 PM

    Great post!

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  2. Larry MacDougallFebruary 13, 2011 at 6:05 AM

    Thanks so much Thomas. Of course the photographs are lovely but you can really see how he transfuses them with magic. And of course like all magic, only the magician know how it is done.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    In first he takes face as the measure for the grid; in third - head's height is the measure. But what was the principle in the last photo?

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  4. Thomas Haller BuchananFebruary 13, 2011 at 4:17 PM

    To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a grid is just a grid.

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  5. DraxFebruary 13, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    Far out! Thank you!

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  6. AnnieFebruary 13, 2011 at 9:37 PM

    Hi Thom,
    Thank you for doing the work to match these. I've become interested in the models for many artists, especially the Pre-Raphaelites, and other artists who repeatedly used their loved ones- wives and children, as models.

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