UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION PART 29

[@clindsay8362]

Fabulous Pete! I was so happy you finally covered Rene Gruau! One of the true greats of 20th century illustration. Thank you for this!

[@petebeard]

Hello Catherine. Thanks for liking and a few other comments seem to be favoirable about Gruau. He's not my kind of thing at all but great illustration is great illustration.

[@twistoffate4791]

Love Rene Gruau!

[@rosemarygilman8718]

Thank you for introducing me to the work of Rene Gruau. His talent for creating strikingly gorgeous images of glamour and sophistication was truly phenomenal!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. If you like Gruau have a look for Etienne Drian, who was his greatest influence. He'll be in a future instalment but I haven't got round to him yet.

[@rosemarygilman8718]

@@petebeard Thank you for the heads up. I look forward to it!

[@ZetaReticulian]

I have been anxiously awaiting this you have NO IDEA 🙏 absolute best art series on YT IMO. Please keep them coming. And most importantly... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK YOUR DOING PUTTING ALL THESE TOGETHER! Very much appreciated.

[@petebeard]

It's down to the enthusiasm of the relatively small numbers of viewers that I continue to make the videos, so many thanks to you. I just hope I can finish the still long list of heroes I haven't featured yet.

[@wildfood1]

Wow, thanks for introducing me to the work of René Gruau.

[@petebeard]

Many thanks. It seems you're not alone in your admiration Of Gruau. Several others have gineb him a positive review. Thanks for watching

[@johnmitchelljr]

My! What an artist Mr. Gruau. You made my day. Harrison Cady ,yes. Thank you. Education can be fun.

[@humbertocarrilloramirez7989]

I love your vídeos and allá the work behind. Thanks for your efforts, and congratulations for this legacy.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your positive reaction to the channel content.

[@ARTYCOATY]

Very wonderful artwork. Thanks for sharing. 😊👍🏼👍🏼

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks for watching - and bothering to let me know you like the viseo. It means a lot.

[@emptyentertainments7914]

Wow Pete, another amazing work, I stand in admiration for what you've done and look forward to the next. Rene Gruau. his simplicity. abstraction and sensuality .Thank you, all the very best in 2020

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot. Monsieur Gruau seems to be the hit of this installment, which I must admit surprises me.I didn't think his appeal would be so broad.

[@AnekdotTheImmortal]

He was the best in this series.

[@DerFroschMitMaske]

Oh wow Caran D´ache and RS Sheriff are some masters of line and composition! Thanks for the great stuff Pete!

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your positive comments and I agree about the line work. Not many can handle a brush with such confidence.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

A Caran D'Ache picture scrolled past and I thought 'Blimey! It's The Broons'.....or perhaps Oor Wullie. Hahahaha Cady looks extraordinary, Sherriffs has a stage-settish look and Gruau looks quite adverty. It is all amazing stuff though and full credit to you for doing all the work so we can have the pleasure. I might have to deny myself the pleasure of any more of your illustrator ouevre for a week or so just to clear my head of all the magical images you have introduced. Thanks again. Brilliant!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I tgink taking a break from the videos is an excellent notion. Viewers sometimes tell me they are bing watching, and much as I'm proud of the videos I'm all too aware that you can have too much of a good thing. And then there's the adage that familiarity breeds contempt. Hopefully the channel isn't going anywhere so I'll still be here when you've detoxed.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

@@petebeard I might have mentioned in talking of Mervyn Peake, that my ma was a housekeeper just round the corner from his house, and I have always been fully aware of my good fortune in growing up just a walk away from the museums in South Kensington. I was able to 'do' them so to speak, a little chunk at a time and enjoyed them all the more for it. I have subbed and youtube has already learnt to recommend your videos to me so I shan't be denying myself for too long I'm sure.

[@cminor99]

Pete Beard, Your series is superb!

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot. I'm glad you're following the channel.

[@Ellesmere888]

Thank you so much Mr. Beard. So much of what I love I find in your videos.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks once again. It's comments such as this that make it worthwhile.

[@Ellesmere888]

@@petebeard Caran D'Ache has such a startling style. I have have a collection of illustrations from l'Assiette au Beurre which includes a couple of his.

[@michaels7889]

Reminds me of many of the superbly produced magazines from the 1950's that I once saved but which then irritated others after marriage!

[@anniebooo]

Thank you, extremely enjoyable. All the best! Annie

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and thanks again. I'm going to have to come up with some other responses to keep pace with your approval!

[@davewalter1216]

Lovely, just lovely. Wonderful way to relax after a long and fairly ordinary day. I'm not sure I care much about the politics of the artists, although I do appreciate your neutral presentation of what they may have been. Thanks Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot. I do try to steer clear of any political opinions in the videos. For me it's all about the pictures, not so much those who made them, many of whom I would be ideologically or otherwise opposed to.

[@davewalter1216]

@@petebeard It doesn't make much sense to project modern morals onto the past and who knows what choices the artist may have had? One can watch 'Triumph of the Will' and appreciate the techniques without condoning Hitler.

[@gregday5169]

Another great installment,Pete. Thank You.

[@petebeard]

And once again thank you for watching and liking.

[@iangillham9647]

More lovely stuff! Thank you.

[@sprattiart]

Hi Pete, wanted to thank you for including Aussie artist Norman Lindsay in episode 28 (no doubt after our recent conversation). I recently went to his home and studio in Springwood which has been a museum for many years. Thanks to your thorough research I learnt a lot more about this eclectic artist. I appreciate the effort you go to, keep up with the great work.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and yes I moved him up in the queue. Oddly as far as know nobody has singled him out for praise and I would have thought he would be the second coming for some viewers - fantasy art fans especially.. Personally I can't get out of my head that his work was burned as obscene. Currently I'm working on another Aussie Will Dyson, who it seems was married to Lindsay's sister.

[@sprattiart]

@@petebeard Seeing Lindsay's original etching plates was a real lesson in subtlety. Have a look at the early pencil and pen drawings of Lloyd Rees. He started out as an illustrator but later became a prominent fine artist. I think you would appreciate the quality of his work. Read a good book on Will Dyson a couple of years ago so I will look forward to that episode. Regards Phil

[@ButchCurry]

If you'd just showed me a bunch of Gruau's work and asked me what decade it was from, I'd have said the 60's! He was well ahead of the curve.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I think I'd be tempted to go further and say if we saw it now it wouldn't look out of place. Either way how on earth is he so unknown?(Rhetorical question of course)

[@43painter]

Fántastic ! During my fashion study at the Maastricht academy of art in the eighties of the last century I already exhibited with my fashion illustration work ànd sold some pieces dúring the installation ( is that the right word ?) of an exhibition ! By that time I was HIGHLY influenced by René Gruau. I quit my studies, because I was offered a job as an illustrator at Fiorrucci / Verte Vallée, which was at that time a famous fashion brand for young stylish people. But I did not like the fashion world people and decided ( desided ?) to go to the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam and became a "serious" painter/draftsman. But éach time when I see the work of Gruau I get sentimental and get misty and long for that time in my past life. . . Great episode, Pete ! TnX for Sharing !

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual for your appreciation. I must admit fashion illustration was never a particular interest of mine (too obsessed with cartoons). But Gruau transcends any such prejudice, and I've also been pleased to find out about his primary influence, Etienne Drian. He is still to come later in the series and so is the Italian illustrator Brunetta Mateldi.

[@dianebonneau2350]

beautiful work wit Burgess. many thanks☕️☕️

[@petebeard]

Thanks ... but who is Burgess?

[@dianebonneau2350]

@@petebeard Thornton Burgess, the author he worked with over decades

[@petebeard]

@@dianebonneau2350 Ah yes, how stupid of me. I tend to forget who the authors were in many cases, especially those I've never read, because I'm so fixated on the visual.

[@dianebonneau2350]

@@petebeard You’re. brilliant and in-depth The breadths and depth of your research is unparalleled on your topic. I’m going over all multiple times. My work on self-publishing, Fine Art America is now heavily influenced by what you bring us. I had never heard of Burgess and Candy until my husband asked me to use some public domain works to put on mugs etc on two of my platforms. This whole project is branching out Please don’t apologize for anything❄️❄️🌺from snowy New Hampshire USA

[@glynstimpson]

Hello Pete another great video thanks

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the steady stream of appreciative remarks.

[@CLRF2]

Wow R.S. Sherriffs work is really graphic, That style is so commonplace in commercial illustration today.

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your comment. That calligraphic line is a skill squite a few illustrators used to use but these days it's much more likely to have been created in Illustrator.

[@johannsmithe2570]

2:31 Caran D'Ache's view of the French painter Claude Monet's "Impression Sunrise" 😁 Thanks for introducing *Rene Gruau* Not your cup of tea, yea, but fun since it allows the viewer to fill in the suggested imagery in comparsion to Robert Sherriff's 8:47 "real illustration" who's brushwork is also easy on the eyes. W.H. Cady's work nowadays comes across as stiff* next to the others of this video. 4:46 would be more at home for a Grateful Dead poster than possibly a children's book. 🚬 🍄 *Thanks* for another video * partly perhaps, of the four Unsung Hero Illustrators he didn't use a brush? Could that be one example of how people perceive the grey area between 'illustration' and 'art' ? Art is on canvas with a two inch gold frame. 😏

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and thanks as usual for your insights. I must admit making this series has compelled me to rethink some of my innate prejudices and find value in work I previously wouldn't have had any time for.

[@johncollado1151]

Hello Pete... Gruau is my favorite out of this one, his style is more modernistic and I can only hope to have a career as long as his. Times are so much different today compared to the past, mainly because of computers. They have opened up a whole new world of art that I'm guessing you will make videos of in the future. Happy New Year and I hope 2020 is a great year for you.

[@djw457]

I really have to make the time to watch your videos, put them up to full screen and sit back.

[@petebeard]

That's music to my ears - thanks.

[@kurts4867]

cool !!! Love your vids !!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very pleased yoy enjoy the channel.

[@frasermay7825]

I have a copy of that edition of the Rubyiat. A treasure

[@petebeard]

I envy you. I had only been peripherally aware of Robert Sherriffs and some of his monochrome work before making the video and those images in particular made a strong impression on me.

[@frasermay7825]

@@petebeard I was given a bit of money for my Birthday back in the 70s and went looking for a book to buy, spotted that one, leather bound and boxed... the clincher was that the Saluki in one illo looked like my Saliki. Had to buy it :) They are wonderfull illustrations

[@allangardiner2515]

I like the thumbnail theme of equestrian pictures.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Strictly speaking they aren't all horse and rider - there's the odd jokey one too, such as fairy on a grasshopper and bear on a pig. Sometimes I have to improvise...

[@brunofranco4416]

What is that high-pitched buzzing sound on the background of your videos?

[@petebeard]

I have no idea. I can't hear it and I assume nobody else can as thy haven't mentoned such a thing. Sorry

[@amougouclarke8557]

Why the name of Grau is in this list? I can't understand

[@petebeard]

Hello and I don;t understand the question. Gruau is on the list because he's in the video - last one featured.

[@amougouclarke8557]

@@petebeard most people know about Mr René and his illustrations, that's why I can't understand his name is in this list

[@petebeard]

@@amougouclarke8557 I'm sorry but I disagree. The channel is watched all over this planet and although some of these illustrators are well known in the country of their origin (if only to the small numbers who have an interest in such things) elsewhere they are a blank canvas. Try asking any 10 people who René Gruau was.

[@doctorpicardnononono7469]

Thirst.