Giuseppe Castellano talks to artist, author, and educator, Alice A. Carter about the life and love of Red Rose Girls—Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, and Elizabeth Cozens—and the scandal that broke them apart; why there’s been a disparity between women and men in the illustration Hall of Fame; why it’s important to view contemporary illustration through an historical lens; and more.
You can connect with Alice on LinkedIn.
Artists mentioned in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Al Parker, Lorraine Fox, Jesse Willcox Smith, John R. Neil, Ludwig Bemelmans, Dennis Nolan, Giotto, C.F. Payne, Violet Oakley, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Ethel Franklin Betts, Richard Amsel, Steven and Timothy Quay, Mel Ramos, Mort Drucker, Maxfield Parrish, Rose O’Neill, Vincent Van Gogh, Edwin Austin Abbey, Howard Pyle, and Franklin Booth
After the conversation, Alice sent an email about what AI-generated imagery is and isn’t for illustrators:
I recalled how the Disney animators refused to work on Tron because they thought that CGI would be the end of animation. Bill Kroyer, Syd Mead, and Jean (Moebius) Geraud took the plunge and as it turned out, theirs was the right decision.
So (in my opinion) students shouldn’t be intimidated by any new technology. Nothing has changed in 60,000 years except that we’re more likely to draw with pixels than with charcoal.
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