Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Take the very last letter in the collection, joyously scribbled by American Gothic creator Grant Wood, an unassuming Iowan who in 1930 found himself suddenly and irrevocably thrust into the national spotlight. Upon learning that two of his canvases, theretofore seen by no one outside his home state, would be given wall space at a prestigious Chicago Art Institute exhibition, Wood could scarcely contain his enthusiasm. As Stanford art expert Wanda M. Corn puts it, “Wood is so exuberant he forgoes a salutation. ‘Hurray!’ he exclaims in large red-pencil letters, surrounded by a hand-drawn frame.” Wood’s infectious glee complements perfectly the more somber tone of some of his coevals’ writings, providing a yin to their yang. Depending on the piece you might find yourself having realizations and coming to terms with certain feelings. Letters recorded in ‘Lettere d’Artista’ are either printed or unpublished. Collections of originals are held in repositories in Italy, Europe, and North America. The largest collections surveyed in the project database are held in Archivio di Stato di Roma, the British Library, Archivio di Stato di Lucca, Musée Paul Arbaud, and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

You don’t need that much context to truly feel the sting of some of these artistically presented words. Codell, Julie. 2020. Patrons’ Desire: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Prolific Replicas. In Victorian Artists’ Autograph Replicas: Auras, Aesthetics, Patronage and the Art Market. Edited by Julie Codell. New York: Routledge, pp. 79–93. [ Google Scholar] Strain has several other eye-catching typography posters in his portfolio, including portraits of David Lynch, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and Freddie Mercury.To please his father, he went to law school. He didn’t like it, and he was eventually allowed to go to Paris to study painting.

To make it easier for you to follow, I grouped them by the 15 typography artists that made it all possible. 1. Peter Strain’s Posters Lex Wilson is a typography artist fascinated with the way the human brain is fooled by optical illusions.Stanley, Liz, Andrea Salter, and Helen Dampier. 2012. The Epistolary Pact, Letterness, and the Schreiner Epistolarium. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 27: 262–93. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

Who wouldn’t want to have some of these typography art prints decorating their walls? 2. Sabeena Karnik’s Paper Letters In today’s article, we’ll take a more in-depth look at typography art and how it’s been used by different typography artists. What Is Typography Art?Large corpora of letters already available on-line, such as those of Bertel Thorvaldsen and Aloys Hirt, are not included. His subject matter always centered on land and seascapes with his most fond subject being the French countryside.