Video: Vintage drawings by Loui Jover: ink on the pages of old books
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
You can't draw in books - we are taught this from childhood. However, looking at works by Australian artist Loui Jover, you understand that there are exceptions to every rule, especially if we are talking not just about scribbles, cartoons, but about real works of art. The recipe for success is simple and complex at the same time: ink, old yellowed book pages and a pinch of inspiration is all it takes to create these vintage masterpieces.
Most often, Loui Jover draws women's faces: the special texture of book sheets, black and white contrasts - exquisite minimalism helps to display a huge range of female feelings and experiences. This brings his work closer to the drawings of the Chinese artist Timothy Hon Hung, which we have already told our readers about.
Also, the artist is especially successful in depicting romantic scenes: the faceless silhouettes of couples in love seem to come to life and look very realistic. Loui Jover's drawings are often "rainy": drizzling sketches create a special atmospheric mood, and ink drips look so much like a shroud of rain, and on girls' faces - like tears that involuntarily rolled down.
A talented artist from Queensland explains the unusual concept of his work, saying that book pages are better than, for example, blank sheets of paper or parchment (recall that ink illustrations created on parchment by artist Liz Timpone have already been written on our website Cultural Studies. RU). A whimsical combination of text, various fonts and graphic images with ink drawings gives rise to a completely new meaning and a kind of far-fetched "background" of each image. In addition, the author tries to create light, literally airy pictures hovering "above the text", so fleeting that "a gust of wind can blow them away at any moment."
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