Arthur Rackham Illustration Essay

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), the most well known Illustrator of his time. His make for brought life to many different stories such as the Grimms fairy tales, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and many of Shakespeares work. Rackham approach to these tales is mount of pardon and grotesque, it is often that in the same image, Rackham would have a beautiful young girl and an quondam(a) wrinkled creature. The drawing also include so much raw emotion Rackhams work possesses a style of identify and colour use that were very prominent in the Art Nouveau endeavor (1890-1914), a style that has is starting become popular again a century later.Rackham became a full time artist at the young age of 25 as a reporter and illustrator for The Westminster reckon and also did some small book illustration jobs, but it wasnt until he was 37 (1905) that his flight took off with the publication of Rip Van Winkle. The years following his rise to fame were very productive. Making work for over 30 diffe rent tales, averaging 13 colour plates for each project. My favourite works Rackham did were his Alices Adventures in Wonderland.Apart from loving the story Carroll wrote, I think Rackhams illustrations are so beautiful and harmonise the story perfectly. My favourite from this series of drawings is Advice from a Caterpillar. Done in 1907, the 24. 5 x 16 cm drawing is only a few cm smaller than A4 but shows such intricate line work. Bibliography http//www. alephbet. com/arthur-rackham-101. php http//www. library. pitt. edu/libraries/is/enroom/illustrators/rackham. htm http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham