{"id":1590,"date":"2009-04-20T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T05:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2009-09-21T19:08:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T03:08:47","slug":"the-pictorial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"The Pictorial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, I posted a 'blog entry<\/a> recommending that my readers visit Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a>, where are found not just golden age comic book stories, but more generally a great many wonderful examples of the art of illustration.<\/p>

By way of Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a>, I've been led to another 'blog, the Pictorial Arts<\/a>, to which I also want to give a strong recommendation. Like Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a>, the Pictorial Arts<\/a> features many examples of outstanding illustration. The Pictorial Arts<\/a> differs in various respects. Most strikingly, its owner, Thomas Haller Buchanan, writes something of what the illustrations (and often the illustrators themselves) have meant<\/em> to him, the rôle that they have played in his life.<\/p>

Buchanan is himself a professional artist of superior ability; one gets to see some of his work

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image used with kind permission of artist<\/div> at another of his 'blogs, People Skills<\/a>. At the Pictorial Arts<\/a> he says little about that ability or about that work, but instead writes about work of other artists that he has found compelling, from the time that he was a small child up to the present. One may see not what he can produce, but that he could and can see<\/em> as an illustrator would, and what<\/em> he saw and sees that made him aspire to become an artist himself.<\/p>

One of the things that I respect about Buchanan is that he posts about the work that he appreciates, regardless of its social standing. But what has me actually following his the Pictorial Arts<\/a> is that I like<\/em> so much of the work to which he directs attention. Some of it is by artists whom I have long admired; in some cases it is work that I too first encountered as a child and which made a strong impression on me. In other cases, I'd not seen it at all before I found it in his 'blog.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, I posted a 'blog entry recommending that my readers visit Golden Age Comic Book Stories, where are found not just golden age comic book stories, but more generally a great many wonderful examples of the art of illustration.By way of Golden Age Comic Book Stories, I've been led to another 'blog, the Pictorial […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,6,5,4],"tags":[51,328,251,481],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commentary","category-personal","category-public","tag-blogs","tag-comic-books","tag-comic-strips","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}