Artist of the day: January 2023

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Artist of the Day, January 31, 2023: Mick Haggerty, an English graphic designer, illustrator, art director, video director, and artist (#1766)

Mick Haggerty is an English graphic designer, illustrator, art director, video director and artist. Haggerty has received four Grammy Award nominations for Best Recording Package, and in 1980 was jointly awarded, with Mike Doud, the Grammy for Supertramp's Breakfast in America (1979). He also received a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video (short form) in 1986 for The Daryl Hall and John Oates Video Collection.

Born in England and educated in London at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art, he moved to Los Angeles in 1973. During the following decades he produced images for many artists. Starting in 1980 he directed many of the first music videos for artists. His editorial illustration includes covers for Time, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and New West Magazine. He was a founding partner in various design groups, Art Attack with John Kehe (1975), Neo Plastics with C.D.Taylor (1980) and Brains with Steve Samiof (1994). He served as Art Director at Virgin Records (1992) and Warner Music (2001). Haggerty was a member of the faculty of Otis Parsons School of Design (now Otis College of Art and Design) from 1983–91. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Notable album covers
• Electric Light Orchestra – The Night the Light Went On in Long Beach, 1974
• Electric Light Orchestra – Face the Music, (with John Kehe), 1975
• Pointer Sisters - Steppin', 1975 (1976 Grammy Award nominee)
• Hot Tuna - Yellow Fever, 1975
• Jerry Lee Lewis – Jerry Lee Lewis, 1979
• Supertramp – Breakfast in America, 1979 (1980 Grammy Award winner)
• Gamma – Gamma 2, 1980
• The Police – Ghost in the Machine 1981
• Jimi Hendrix – Kiss the Sky, 1982
• The Go-Go's – Vacation, 1982 (1983 Grammy Award nominee)
• David Bowie – Let's Dance, 1983
• David Bowie – Tonight, 1984
• Simple Minds – Alive and Kicking, 1985
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – The Pacific Age, 1986
• David Bowie – Never Let Me Down, 1987
• Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), 1987
• Public Image Ltd – 9, 1989
• Jellyfish – Bellybutton cover spread, 1990
• Keith Richards – Main Offender, 1992
• Jellyfish – Spilt Milk, 1993
• Richard Thompson – Mirror Blue, 1994
• Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute, 2002 (2003 Grammy Award nominee)

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Mick Haggerty

Fairport Convention – Rosie. 1973

John Mayall – Ten Years Are Gone. 1973

Creative Source – Migration. 1974

Phoebe Snow – Phoebe Snow. 1974

The Move – The Best of The Move. 1974

James Montgomery Band – The James Montgomery Band. 1975

The Pointer Sisters – Steppin. 1975

The Warner Bros. Music Show. 1975

The Ventures – T.V. Themes. 1977

Balance. 1978

Jerry Lee Lewis. 1979

Supertramp – Breakfast In America. 1979

The Talking Heads - Portrait. 1980

Yellow Magic Orchestra. 1980

The Police - Ghost in the Machine. 1981

Go-Go's – "Totally Go-Go's!" CD. 1982

Go-Go's – Vacation. 1982

Vanity Fair cover, April 1983

David Bowie – Let's Dance. 1983 Cover

David Bowie – Let's Dance. 1983

David Bowie – Serious Moonlight. 1984

Jimi Hendrix – Kiss The Sky. 1984

Orchestral Manœuvres In The Dark – We Love You. 1986

David Bowie – Day-In Day-Out. 1987

The Smithereens – 11. 1989

Jellyfish - Bellybutton. 1990

Keith Richards – The Only Offender. 1992

Jellyfish – Spilt Milk. 1993

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin. 2002

Monday, January 30, 2023

Artist of the Day, January 30, 2023: Amédée Ozenfant, a French painter (#1765)

Amédée J. Ozenfant (1886 – 1966) was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France. At age fourteen he began painting, and in 1904 he attended the Ecole Municipale de Dessin Quentin-La Tour in Saint-Quentin. The following year he moved to Paris, where he entered an architecture studio. At this time he also studied painting with Charles Cottet at the Académie de la Palette, where he became a friend of Roger de La Fresnaye and André Dunoyer de Segonzac.

Ozenfant's first solo exhibition was held in 1908 at the Salon de la Nationale in Paris. In 1910 he contributed works to the Salon d’Automne and in 1911 he participated in the Salon des Indépendants. From about 1909 to 1913 he made trips to Russia, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands and attended lectures at the Collège de France in Paris. In 1915 Ozenfant founded the magazine L'Elan, which he edited until 1917, and began to formulate his theories of Purism. In 1917 the artist met the Swiss architect and painter Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier); together they articulated the doctrines of Purism in their book Après le cubisme. Its publication coincided with the first Purist exhibition, held at the Galerie Thomas in Paris in 1917, in which Ozenfant was represented. Ozenfant and Le Corbusier collaborated on the journal L'Esprit nouveau, which appeared from 1920 to 1925.

Ozenfant participated in the second Purist exhibition at the Galerie Druet, Paris, in 1921. In 1924 he and Fernand Léger opened a free studio in Paris, where they taught with Alexandra Exter and Marie Laurencin. Ozenfant and Le Corbusier wrote La Peinture moderne in 1925. During that year Ozenfant exhibited at the controversial Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau at the Exposition des arts décoratifs in Paris. The artist was given a solo show at Galerie L. C. Hodebert, Paris, in 1928. His book Art was published in French in 1928; an English edition appeared as The Foundations of Modern Art in 1931. Ozenfant taught at the Académie Moderne in 1929 and founded the Académie Ozenfant in 1932. From 1935 to 1938 he operated the Ozenfant Academy in London, also teaching at the French Institute in that city. From 1939 to 1955 he taught at the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York. His solo show at the Arts Club of Chicago was held in 1940. Ozenfant taught and lectured widely in the United States until 1955, when he returned to France. He remained there the rest of his life and died in Cannes.

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