W A R . . . in art

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An 1800s toy croisillon (wooden extender)

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Frans Masereel    Click blue links for more of each artist

       

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 An AE Marty fashion illustration    Click images twice for full size 

  

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Frans Masereel

  

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A Louis Raemaekers editorial illustration
  
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Mike Hinge (1970s comic book art?) feels juvenile and 
pretentious in this sequence, yet pretty and psychedelic. 

  

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MAD magazine's General Patton by Mort Drucker

  

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 1864 civilians

  

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A Seymore Schwast illustration

  

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Frans Masereel

  

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 An 1870 cartoon

  

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 A Dean Cornwell illustration, 'Spanish Tavern' 1922

   

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A Mead Schaeffer illustration for the book
'Everybody's Washington' 1931

  

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 1917 Russian women in the Battalion of Death

  

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 1919 New Years Eve marked a return to civilian life for French soldiers.

  

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Frans Masereel

  

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A 1956 nuclear shelter for the public

   

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A Randal Enos parody of a Jimmy Hatlo cartoon, for National Lampoon
magazine in 1972.  Hatlo himself was a good cartoonist and humorist, but
he wasn't this nasty.  Early 1970s hipster comedy could be very dark.

   

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A William Makepeace Thackeray drawing and text

  
Call it love or call it lust!  My song of raging passion . . .

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PAPERCUT art

A 'papercut', or paper sculpture by Jen Stark.  Paper art has a long
history, and it's look has changed with the passing times.
  
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An 1800s Japan papercut ornament

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 A papercut by the writer Hans Christian Anderson 1874

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Papercut illustrations, 1950?

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An Armando Testa papercut illustration for Martini & Rossi, 1950s?

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A 1921 papercut

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A 1952 paper and cloth illustration,
maybe for a printed greeting card?

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A modern Elsa Mora papercut

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artist uncredited, date unknown

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An Abner Graboff papercut for a 1967 children's book

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a papercut illustration

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A portrait
 
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Through the 1980s I worked in advertising companies and saw 

papercut illustrations' original artwork . . . it's large,

fragile, and must be photographed well.

  

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 1950s? Dial it  down a little please.

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1960?

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 An FP Glasemann papercut, 1903

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A Jen Stark pop up book


Please listen to my short electric string-bender . . .

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 Rush hour traffic in 1851  Click images twice for full size

 

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a Bernie Fuchs illustration

  

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David Klein poster art 1960: romantic traffic
 

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 A 1939 traffic jam
 

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An Ed Emberley children's book
illustration from 1961

  

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A Don Jacot realism painting of toys

 

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An Edouard Léon Cortès painting

    

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graphic cars, 1947

    

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1975 NERF toys

    

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an M. Osterweil painting, 1979

    

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A Roger Duvoisin children's book illustration

    

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A Jacques-Joseph Tissot painting

    

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 Futurama at the 1939 World's Fair

    

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a Joost Swarte illustration
    
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 a William Wallace Denslow children's book illustration
 

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 An unusual sketch by illustrator Ed Emshwiller

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 1938
 
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Wallace Wood comic book art
    
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We wonder what visitors from another planet
would seem like, but how would we look to them?
 

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