Thursday, 13 October 2016

Friday Oct 14 - Children's Book Illustrator

Sara Fanelli, cover for Pinocchio Dutch edition
We will be looking at the methodologies of Sara Fanelli.
These will include:
Collage, especially the use of "found" eyes, textures and old documents
Absurdity such as is found in the work of Edward Lear
Textual quotes, from philosophers and artists

Fanelli: “Everything is fed by personal research both in materials and ideas. The ideas most of the time come from marrying events and emotions in my life with texts I come across in my reading. This is the core of all the work and it feeds the general illustration commissions as well as the books….Almost all of the images are inspired by a text. They are visual interpretations of the ideas contained in the text I chose. But I have complete freedom in the way I want to express those ideas and in the degree of obscurity of the narrative”Interview with Stephen Heller, Varoom journal no.3:
http://www.hellerbooks.com/pdfs/varoom_03.pdf



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