Creators

Creators

A growing list of inspirational Artists, Writers, Filmmakers, and Poets.

Albrecht Durer

For my first installment of this article, I thought I would talk about one of my favorite Artists, northern renaissance rookie of the year Albrecht Durer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528.)

But just calling him an artist would be to typecast this jack of all trades.  Though he was a phenomenal print-maker and painter, he was also a mathematician, a mystic, and prize-winning frankfurter eating enthusiast. 

 Though I love his painting, what really makes a mark on me are his prints.  Printmaking in general is appealing to me, but his level of detail and rendering of his forms makes his subjects fold in and out of each other in tactile layers.  I'm also a fan of his allegorical and mystical subject matter.

Plus LOOK AT THAT BADASS SIGNATURE!

What I want to gain from enjoying his work is a heightened level of detail and beauty to my own work.  there's an elegance to his lines and stylization that I seek to emulate. (Check out death and the devil in this one.  I love how oafish the devilgoat is.)

One of my all time favorite works by anyone ever.  As far as I know the story, Albrecht was talking smack about other artists' animals and how he was the baddest mofo of them all when it came down to it.  He was so bad a mofo, that he could illustrate an animal that he had never seen more accurately than other artists could draw, say, a bird.  So someone described a rhino to him, and this is what he came up with.  you have to admit, for how weird an animal a rhino is, to just have a description, that's pretty damn good.

Thanks for stopping by.  Aww, now don't be like that, it had to end some time.