I went to see the Soviet Picture Books exhibition!
Artists I noted down: Vladimir Lebedev, Eduard Krimmer, Yevgeny Charushin
- Lots of beautiful image making! A focus on movement and experimenting and texture vs simplicity. I see some things that are often tried to be replicated today but they're missing something. I'm not anti-digital work but I think it's harder to get something that feels free with Photoshop than a brush.
- Sometimes too experimental? Vladimir's Lebedev story about the elephant left a little girl confused as to why the animals had "exploded". It's a reminder that the audience is the priority, though it isn't impossible by any means to make something complex and designed in an interesting way that can be enjoyed by children also.
- It's all very nice to look at when you can't read russian- with context a lot of them become more sinisterly propaganda-y
- Simple layouts and spot illustrations, no interest in over-complication
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