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Illustration 5
Stephen Gammell is an American illustrator of children's books.
He won the 1989 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book
illustration.
He started his career with freelance commercial work, but
became interested in children's book illustration. He has
illustrated over fifty titles. Gammell is particularly well known
for the surreal, unsettling illustrations he provided for Scary
Stories to Tell in the Dark, a series of horror short stories by Alvin
Schwartz that is still an adolescent favorite. However, some
consider the illustrations to be too violent for young readers.
“One Sunday Morning”
If you ever read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark as a child,
then you too, may be haunted to this day by the ghastly
illustrations they contained. The drawing by artist Stephen
Gammell brought the words by Alvin Schwartz to horrific
life, and we suspect are a large part of why it was the most
frequently challenged book for library banning from 1990-
1999.
“The Girl who stood on a Grave” ~ Stephen Gammell
Alan Lee is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer.
Lee has illustrated dozens of fantasy books, including some nonfiction, and many more covers. Among the most notable interiors are several works of J.R.R. Tolkien: the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings & a 1995 edition of The Hobbit.
“Front façade of Barad-dûr” ~ Alan Lee
“Rivendell” ~ Alan Lee
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker,
mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality
woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or "master
prints") established his reputation and influence across Europe
when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally
regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever
since. The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain
a more Gothic flavour (medieval) than the rest of his work.
Albrecht Dürer - St Michael's Fight Against The Dragon
“The Revelation of St John: The Battle of the Angels” ~ Albrecht Dürer
His watercolours also mark him as one of the first
European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts
revolutionized the potential of that medium. Dürer's
introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through
his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has
secured his reputation as one of the most important
figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by
his theoretical writings, which involve principles of
mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
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