Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Artist of the day, June 30, 2020: Art Chantry, an American graphic designer (#1034)

Arthur Samuel Wilbur Chantry II (1954) is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he has done for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Mudhoney, Mono Men, Soundgarden and The Sonics.

Chantry received a bachelor's degree from Western Washington University in 1978.

Chantry's designs are perhaps most closely associated with the Seattle, Washington-based Sub Pop Records and the Bellingham, Washington-based Estrus Records, for which he has worked with dozens of bands. He is also notable for his work in magazine and logo design. Chantry worked throughout the 1980s as art director at The Rocket, a Seattle-based music biweekly.

Chantry advocates a low-tech approach to design that is informed by the history of the field. His work has been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Louvre. Chantry builds his record, poster, and magazine designs by hand, eschewing the now-ubiquitous computer and laser printer for X-acto knives, Xerox machines, and photoset type. His bright, eye-popping creations can be seen frequently in the mom and pop record store as in the pages of establishment design magazines like Print or Communication Arts.

Some People Can't Surf: The Graphic Design of Art Chantry by Julie Lasky is a book released in 2001. The monograph explored Chantry's process crafting his graphic design.

Chantry is the recipient of the 2017 American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Medal.

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Macbeth
1983

Tartuffe
poster, 1983

Eleanor Marx
Bathhouse Theater, 1984

Propaganda
1985, Poster for the New City Theater production of “Propaganda”

1986, trade science fiction paperback book cover

 Give peace a dance
1987 was when the INF peace treaty was being negotiated (a nuke reduction treaty)
between Reagan and Gorbachev

This is the back of a 7″ EP issued by C Z Records in 1987

Louder Than Love
1989

 Unexpected Production
1991

Dayglo
1992, LP and CD cover for Love Battery’s album “Dayglo” on Sub Pop Records

T shirt, 1992

Jack o'fire album
1993

Mono Men Pajama Party
poster, 1994

Teengenerate
1995

1995, This was a production of Shakespeare re-set in a seemingly inappropriate period

Urban Outfitters
1995

1996 Album cover is a re-created pattern found on an old vintage plastic shower curtain

 CD cover is for a compilation of accordion music being released by Rhino records, 1996

Double Godzilla with Cheese
1996, Record cover for the X-Rays

 Noise Addict
poster, 1996

Cramps Showbox
All the type for this 1997 poster was either filtered and altered
from existing vintage trash cinema advertising

Skin printers devil
1997, ad for a play about S&M relationships

Ventures Crocodile
1998 concert poster is a re-creation of some lettering used on one of their old
record covers from the early 1960s.

Lee County Killers
this band wanted this 1998 poster to tie in with the swamp monsters and black panthers
of legend in the Delta swamps

Penis Cop
1999

Some People Can’t Surf
2001

 “Sweat Soaked & Satisfied”
2002, Record cover for Cookie's album “Sweat Soaked and Satisfied” on Infect Records

All the lettering on this 2004 poster was done by photocopying pages from old type catalogs

Art Chantry
2004, Poster at AIGA Austin

 Jubilee
2004, DVD cover for Criterion Collection release

New city tiny kuchner
2012, theater poster for a low-budget performance by a struggling theater company


Monday, June 29, 2020

Artist of the day, June 29, 2020: Giovanni Battista Moroni, an Italian painter (Renaissance) (#1034)

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1524-1579) was an Italian Renaissance painter notable for his sober and dignified portraits. He was best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy.

Moroni was a pupil of the local painter Moretto da Brescia, who strongly influenced Moroni’s manner in painting religious compositions. It is Moroni’s portraits that have earned him his importance, however, for he was one of the few Italian Renaissance artists who made portraiture their chief specialty. His portraits were mostly of the petty aristocracy and bourgeoisie of Bergamo. He also worked in Brescia and Trento, where he painted mostly religious works. One of his best-known works is The Tailor (1565–70). Moroni emphasized a sitter’s dignity and nobility by means of natural, unforced poses and masterful compositions and infused his portraits with physiognomic individuality and psychological depth. Despite their impassive facial expressions, many of his portraits impart a sense of gentle melancholy that is reinforced by predominantly gray tonalities and by a restrained treatment of the textures of cloth and draperies. Moroni’s simple yet subtle style of portraiture was clearly influenced by that of Titian, who himself commended Moroni’s work. Among Moroni’s other more-notable portraits are the Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo (1563) and the Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli (c. 1560).


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1520, Portrait of a Man

1550, Bust of Isotta Brembati

1550, Portrait of a Man and a Boy (Count Alborghetti & Son)

1550, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

1552, Portrait of the sculptor Alessandro Vittoria

1553, Portrait of a Man

1553, Portrait of Bartolomeo Bonghi

1555-60, A Gentleman in Adoration before the Baptism of Christ

1555-60, Portrait of a Soldier

1555, Isotta Brembati

1555, The Vestal Virgin Tuccia

1556, Portrait of a Lady

1557, Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova

1557, Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona

1559-60,  Portrait of a Lay Brother

1559, Canon Ludovico Di Terzii

1560, A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna

1560, Gian Gerolamo Grumelli

1560, Portrait

1560, Portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva

1560s, Portrait of a Camaldulense Friar

1563, Portrait of a Gentleman (traditionally called Giulio Gilardi)

1565, Ritratto di Antonio Navagero

1569, The last supper

1570-75, The Tailor

1570, Bust Portrait of a Magistrate

1570, Portrait of a Man holding a Letter

1570, Portrait of a Young Woman

1570, Ritratto di bambina di casa Redetti

1572, Portrait of a Man With Raised Eyebrows

1575, Portrait of a Young Woman

1575, Titian's Schoolmaster

1578, Mystical apostasy of St. Catherine of Alexandria