THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS HD 1080p
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- I don't know whether it's that I've got better at searching for material for videos or if there's just a lot more to be had. Maybe it's a bit of both, but either way the good news is that I can now make longer solo spots for some who previously only had three minute slots as unsung heroes. And I hope you'll agree that Miguel Covarrubias is a more than worthy candidate for closer inspection.
P.S. My apologies for not giving any insight into Covarrubias's choice of medium(s) in the actual video. All - or certainly the vast majority - of his painted illustration work was created using gouache paint (sometimes on a watercolour wash base) with increasingly fine brush strokes to add tonal gradation and detail. But he did also work in oils and although I have no proof of it I'm fairly certain some of his Bali and other travel work was created this way. What he would have used for mural work I have no idea, I'm sorry to say.
You, sir, are the David Attenborough of Illustration. Thank you for introducing us to so many artists in this underappreciated art form... The thoroughly researched, engaging and unpretentious presentation style make your illustration history video essays a joy to watch.
Súper agree with the analogy , greetings ❤
Yes, I also agree. This channel is now a University level education in the World History of Book Illustration.
Shhh, keep the praise down, or next thing you know he'll block his content behind a pay wall. 🤑
That is an apt analogy.
Hello and thanks so much for the comparison. It's very flattering and it's great to know that the channel is appreciated and doing its job in spreading some knowledge.
Covarrubias is one of my favorite artists, and can be surprisingly difficult to find examples despite being widely published in his day. His style is very distinctive and nuanced, able to unambiguously express subjects with sympathy or mockery in his manner that's simultaneously cartoonish, yet realistic. Thanks for the presentation
Hello and thanks for your apreciation of this video. Like you I admire the man's work immensely, but I didnt even know he existed until about 7 years ago. I'm so glad to have encountered his fascinating illustrations.
Thank you, Mr Beard. A joy as always.
Well done on mentioning the Rousseau influences. In 1933 for Vanity Fair, Covarrubias illustrated an article on "The Tree of Modern Art." Roots, boughs and leaves show 'movements' through to individual artists. A clever drawing - it alludes to dealers, collectors and the art market to which Vanity Fair catered.
Most notable is a solitary bird - blue. It is labelled 'Rousseau.'
Hello again and thanks once more for your appreciation. And although I did see (but ultimately left out) that tree picture I hadn't noticed the Rousseau reference in it. Thanks for pointing it out.
This entire series of videos has done more to shed light on classic illustrators than anything I can think of! Thanks for the brilliant, informative content!
Hello and your enthusiastic response to the channel is greatly appreciated. Good to know I'm getting through to viewers.
Not only is the presentation of this artist excellent, but the music is stuff I could listen to all day.
Hello and thanks a lot. Finding suitable music that isn't subject to copyright is far from easy so I'm glad you appreciate what's on this track.
Never heard of him, so it was a treat to watch this episode ( as it always is). He seemed to embody the spirit and style of his homeland, and of South America in general. His work seemed to be fresh, witty, and unique ( non-derivative) with great flair. Thanks again Pete for sharing your own pedagogic talent, by presenting the work of others in such a compelling manner.
Hello and many thanks for your enthusiastic response, and I'm delighted you enjoyed his remarkable body of work. Until I took a post at a university (of sorts) back in 2000 I had never heard the word 'pedagogy' and when I made the admittedly infantile remark that I thought you could be arrested for it I earned the enduring disdain of my academic coleagues.
The service you provide by showcasing the outstanding, and sometimes forgotten illustrators of the past can not be overstated. Thank you for yet another look at a marvelous artist.
Hello again and many thanks for your comment and ongoing support. It's greatly appreciated.
An outstanding episode, which is saying something, as they are all sterling! Covarrubias was also a noted influence on other artists, especially Al Hirschfeld, a great favorite of mine.
Hello and thanks a lot. I like Hirschfeld too, and he features (fairly briefly I admit) in the video 'Between the Lines' on the channel.
Stunning illustrations by the artist. Joyful to watch.
Hello and many thanks for your comment.
Again, you should be an Art History Professor at some amazing art institute. You've already done 80% of the work!! Thanks for doing this amazing and invaluable work - and for so generously sharing it!
Hello again and flattery will get you everywhere, my friend. I must say that having taught at university in the past I'm much happier teaching online now I'm retired. I don't have to get up in the morning or travel on Britain's appalling road system either.
Please stay right where you are Mr. Beard!
Wow. What a stupendous talent and remarkable career! Thank you for a wonderful documentary on this superb artist.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the video and Covarrubias's astonishing life and career.
What an outstanding and original illustrator ... thanks as always for your work putting the video together.
Hello and I'm delighted you appreciate his work.
While I admit to not being a fan of modernist illustration I must say that M. Covarrubias's work moved me and I admire them way more than I thought I would when I began watching this video. Great ethnographic illustrations and overall atmosphere of his work are very pleasing. Thank you for presenting this artist of whom I knew nothing until today!
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I'm pleased you enjoyed his work.
Thanks once again, Pete. If any artist deserved a longer presentation it it was this one. An astonishing artist. His compositional skills and handling of color is truly amazing.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm glad you agree he was worth more detailed examination.
Covarrubias -- like Mexico itself -- seems a man even in his very blood of two worlds, at home everywhere and nowhere. A fine and varied output! And a telling comment on the fleetingness of fame how many of his caricatures are not recognized today, even by a "senior citizen" like myself!
Hello again and thanks as usual for the comment. I think I got most but from from all the caricatures - at least in the impossible interview series. But I couldn't work out what the supposed connection between those featured might have been. In may ways it deepened the surreal appeal for me.
Thank you for the introduction to this talented artist!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
This was just gorgeous, I can't understand why I never heard of this artist before. Many thanks for showing me his work.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. If it's any consolation you are far from alone in not knowing about his remarkable work. I only discovered him by accident a few years ago and I've been an illustration obsessive all my life.
Thanks for this video. Covarrubias has been one of my favourite artists. Great that you could find so many samples of his work.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation, and I must admit I was pleasantly surprised by quite a bit of what I found.
He really was astonishing. Thanks for doing this more in-depth take.
Hello and as always you are very welcome.
Thank you, Pete, for showing so many examples of illustrations by an artist, obviously so ahead of his times! And to see where his travels took him! My wife (of Indonesian descent) was very charmed by the beautiful pictures of Bali and other Eastern areas. This man knew his scource material. The adaptation of different (and appropiate) styles are a treat. And what an apt choice of music!
Thank you once more for this wonderful discovery!
Hello and many thanks for your continued appreciation of the channel. I really don't know how he crammed so much into such a short life, and particularly given the undertaking that his travels would have been at that time. And thanks for the compliment about the music - finding and editing non-copyright music for these videos is very problematic, and this lot took some searching.
I have, for many years now, the Bali book and never knew MC was an artist!! thank you!
Hello and I'm glad to have provided the information. Thanks for the comment.
His compositions are immaculate!
How very true.
Fantastic work. Being an artist myself, albeit one who's never made so much as a nickel as such, it's exciting to view artwork i'd never seen before. Very inspirational!
Well said!Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation.
Love your work man! A testimony for the generations
Hello and thanks a lot for the positive comment.
Another fascinating video, thank you.
Hi again and my gratitude as ever for your continued support.
Outstanding video. Having never heard of this artist, it’s clear to see his influence upon those that have worked for Dreamworks and Pixar. Carter Goodrich really sprung to mind seeing his colour work. Thank you Pete.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation - and for providing the name Carter Goodrich, who i previously didn't know about. My head's so immersed in the past I tend to ignore the present.
Really fascinating artist. How versatile he was on the different aspect of art(s), culture(s), history, and also the present time, the life itself. Wow. Thanks again for the great work and the presentation !!
Hello again and your appreciation is always welcome.
Another masterpiece, Mr. Beard. Thank you for sharing these with the world.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's hard to go wrong with an illustrator of his calibre.
Thank you for this great episode!, Posada, Cabral and Covarrubias are some of the most greatest Mexican's illustrators, cheers from México!. :D
Hello and many thnaks for your appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed it - and the others.
A jewell, as always. I happen to know much about Covarrubias' work - I'm from Mexico. Thanks for this magnificent presentation.
Hello and tanks a lot for your appreciation of this video. The man was undoubtedly a genius.
Once again, an outstanding video exposition of the life and work of an artist. Thank you very much, Pete, for your research and the videos. The Channel is a University level education in the History of Book Illustration. This episode was VERY inspiring to me, and I have MUCH respect for the genius of Manuel Cavarrubias. ♥
Hello and many thanks for your particularly enthusiastic response to the video, channel and Covarrubias's remarkable body of work.
Fantastic artist with his own style(s) but so versatile. And so prolific! Thanks for telling me about him.
Hello and I'm pleased you appreciate his wonderful work. Thanks a lot for the comment.
A great artist's work here, and that of Miguel Covarrubias, also great!
Hello and that's both funny and flattering. Thanks a lot.
Hello, Pete. Excellent video, once again; and a new discovery for me, thanks to you.
Hello and thanks. I'm glad to have introduced his work to you.
RAHH! He's one of my favourite artists! Thank you for doing a video on Covarrubias! And such a calm and well researched video too :-D
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the video - and of course Covarrubias's marvellous illustrations.
I know I've seen some of these illustrations but never knew the artist's name. These are wonderful, Pete. I especially loved the caricatures (might be a nice study for anther video, a history of caricature?). With Covarrubias' formidable output and talent, I was surprised he died so young. So sad. Thanks again, Pete, as always, for opening our eyes to another amazing illustrator.
Hi again and thanks as usual for your appreciation. Until I started making the videos I had never encountered his work as he was never to my knowledge published in Britain. So finding him was a real and enduring pleasure. And thank for the caricature suggestion - consider it added to the (terrifyingly long) list.
Thank you so much for both the interesting and educational art history, and your calming tone.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel, and my narration. I can't abide channels where the delivery is manically upbeat so I tried the opposite approach.
Wow, I knew from that music we were in for something different… What a treat, Pete! Thanks for introducing me to the genius of Covarrubias!
Hello and many thabks for your appreciation of the video. And I'm pleased to have introduced you to his work.
Thanks Pete! What a great and fascinating body of work.
Hello and thanks. I'm glad you dound his work of interest.
Definitely worth watching more than one time! I really like his more 'spare' line drawings - you can tell just how skillful an artist he was in those. So many 'famous' faces appeared somewhat 'familiar' but then I couldn't remember the names of most of them either! But fun to see. I didn't notice you'd left out the mediums he used but the artworks were so diverse in methods, it'd have made the video even longer to describe them (not that that'd be a bad thing, that info is always welcome). But most were obvious of one or two choices available for the times. He obviously wasn't limited toward choosing whatever medium he wanted to use, which always helps an artist to expand their talents. So prolific, he made excellent use of his ability to explore other countries to discover so many different cultures and habitats that were still commonly unknown - and happily shared these with the world. One can only try to imagine what his works would've looked like at the age of 70 or older had he lived longer. Or maybe he'd have just decided to teach instead. What an honor to be granted that simply for doing what he loved best.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your appreciation and comments about Covarrubias's fascinating work. I recognised most but not all of his caricatures but the cinnections in the impossible interview series generally escaped me. And like you I think it's a great pity he didn't get to work longer.
Thank you for all that you do sir. Another inspiring video
Hello and I'm glad you appreciate Covarrubias's remarkable work. Thanls for the comment.
Wow. So much rich output in such a short life. And as always, a video chock full of more than the sum of its parts.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation of his wonderful images and my small contribution.
Thank you so much Sir for bringing to light the great work of people that have been influences for past and present generations.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Even if it makes a small difference I'll be happy about that.
Fascinating artist and his work. I live in Dallas and have seen that mural many times. I had no idea who the artist was. thank you for sharing his work.
Hello and thanks for your comment. I'm pleased you enjoyed his work.
Great job Pete, absolutely one of my favorite Jazz Age artists. I owned a couple of the Heritage trade editions, which you can still buy for under $20. Amazingly, the signed limited editions still only cost about $200, if any of your subscribers are interested in adding to their collections. Thanks for a very enjoyable video.
He Albert and thanks a lot. Good to see you are back on youtube and I hope things are going somewhat better for you in your new/old home.
Thank you for this fascinating, well-researched presentation.
Hello and thanks. I'm grateful for your appreciation.
Wonderful Pete, amazing works
Hello again and I'm pleased that you appreciate his remarkable images.
Love watching your series since first discovering your channel about a year ago. I still have a few to catch up on but this particular one is my favorite. As I live in the tropics (Southern Philippines) I can appreciate Covarrubias wonderful use of colour. The first time I saw fields of rice in the Philippines I was just awestruck by the vivid greenness of the rice plants growing in the paddies. The colours of the cultural costumes that the people wear for cultural events is the same. Colour in the tropics seems to stand out so much more and Covarrubias coming from Mexico appears to have captured this well.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel and this video in particular. I've never been to any of the countries he has illustrated so vividly but they do have a very authentic feel to them. I find all his travel work very atmospheric and evocative.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Hello and you are very welcome.
Thanks, Pete. Some more beautiful illustration.
As your skill as a researcher increases I wonder if at some point you'll revisit past videos and at the very least include additional illustrations.
Any news about a book deal yet. You've certainly got a ready source of buyers.
Hello again and thanks a lot as ever. Covarrubias is a re-visit at greater depth, as have been (and will be) quite afew others. It all depends on how much material I can find, written as well as pictorial. And regarding books that may well have gone down the pan, although technically it's still on the table. This is why I prefer videos - no publisher to bother about. If it happens it will be a kickstarter project so the begging bowl will be out if it happens. I'm reminded of the Mel Brooks film The Producers.
Let me start by saying that I love the art of Covarrubias. He also began my love of collecting Art Deco ephemera. In the early 1970s, I purchased the August 1929 Vanity Fair with his cover. I now own over 200 magazines, programs, and other printed items from the turn of the last century up to the 1970s but most from the teens, 20s, and 30s. I also recently befriended on Facebook, the caricaturist, Robert Risko, who also is a big fan of Covarrubias.
Thanks as usual for your comment. That's a collection I would dearly love to see, and I'm slightly ashamed to admit I only encountered his work for the first time when I started making videos. God bless the internet. And thanks for the name Robert Risko - great work, and you can clearly see the connection.
Hi Pete,
Thank you for doing your illustration videos. My wife and I have watched them all and are going through them a second time. I don't recall that you've done anything on Gerald Gregg. He was born in 1907 in Lamar Colorado and lived till 1985. He did the covers for about 176 Dell paperback covers. Airbrush was a common technique for Gregg and many of his mystery covers looked like they borrowing from surrealism. Thanks for listening. Lance Sprague
Hello and many thanks for your dedication to the channel. And yet more thanks for the name Gerald Gregg, who I had never heard of. A quick search reveals that there will be enough decent resolution imagery to enable me to make a space for him in the new series of unsung heroes, although there is virtually no meaningful biographical information to be had. Fortunately that's not a deal breaker. No idea when he'll feature and I also have no real idea when I'll resume the unsung series, but he will make a meaningful addition. Thanks again for the suggestion.
What an important artist. He may not have lived to be that old, but he did so much work in his short life. His images tell the story of his time and place so well. A story that is so so often white washed, it is interesting to see the diversity, but even that tells us something about how race was perceived in that era. So many images are quite serious and even a bit gruesome but wrapped in caricature that gets your attention for fun and then really shows you something. The group image at 10:33 is fantastic. A real who's who of the day. I wonder what the significance of the hour glass and key are and also really love he stuck ghost Shakespeare in there. Another fantastic journey. Thanks so much.
Hello and thanks so much for your appreciation and observations about this video. And yes from a number of angles some of these videos do shed light on cultural norms of the period, although that isn't really my intent. But it does show how illustration arguably reflects life better than quite a lot of art.
It is such exquisite illustration and narration 👌
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation and comment.
Thank you. Really fantastic.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
I have a copy of the Conquest of Mexico (it was published by the Heritage Press), because my parents lived in the US between 1946 and 1950 before returning to Australia, where I was born in 1960. The illustrations are simply magnificent.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
Such interesting inside views on this great artist. Loved it.
Hi again and thanks a lot as usual for your comment.
I bought and read The Eagle, The Jaguar, And The Serpent some years ago, fantastic book, through his travels of Asia he shows the similarities of Asian and Native American art motifs, it makes a compelling argument that many different cultures over the years were in contact between the old world and the new world. I'll have to seek out some other books especially the Bali book I've been meaning to pick up.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. That he was so successful as both an illustrator and ethnologist/anthropologist makes him all the more remarkable, I think.
Love that guy, he´s one of the best. Thank you.
Hello and thanks for the favourable response to the video.
This quite amazing. I was going to write you to ask if you knew about Covarubbias. I had never heard of him but recently I came across a book he illustrated " Franky and Johnny" and was so impressed that I looked him up on Google. I bought the book at our Library Bookstore here in San Miguel and paid only 40 pesos for it. (about 2.30 U.S.) It had color pictures glued in. Talk about it being a small world and coincidences. Your discussion is much better than the Google-Wikipedia information . Thanks so much and keep up the good work.
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. According to another viewer, who used to collect illustrated books, quite a lot of Covarrubias's other work can be found and it doesn't fetch particularly high prices.
Thank you thank you thank you. Again. Just amazing!!!
Hello and your thanks are greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much!
Hello and thanks to you for your appreciation.
Very interesting. Great artist
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
Hi Pete! How much art have been made in a short Life! Mexicans use of colour is amazing, this is a great contribution - as usual - in this case, at the Semana de la Hispanidad!
Hola Gabriel, and thanks for your appreciation of this video. I returned to Spain (Marbella) a month ago for the first time since Covid. It reminded me how much I have missed my holidays there. Hopefully we will be back to Sitges in the spring (if Covid does not become pandemic again).
Beautiful, thx for the vid 😁
Thanks a lot. A great and under-appreciated illustrator.
Covarrubias was a genius and a delight, and gone way too soon.
Agreed.
THANK YOU THANK YOU !
Hello and thanks to you too for your appreciaton
Que aula incrível .Thanks Mr. Beard!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
This is my favorite TH-cam channel!! Please do some Asian artists as well :)
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I would love to feature Asian illustrators but however hard I search I keep coming up with nothing. I'm at the mercy of what's available online and I haven't found enough by any early 20th century illustrators from any of the countries in the continent. If you can give me some names I can see how far I get.
The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent is a beautiful book.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Sadly, I've only seen the few pages I found online.
FELICITACIONES. DESDE.MEXIXO. SIGO SU CANAL DESDE HACE MUCHO. ES EXCEOCIONA. ESTE PROGRAMA ME GUSTO EN ESPECIAL PUES SOY DE MEXICO. OJALA NOS REGALE MAS ILUSTRADORES DE MEXICO Y LATINOAMERICA. UN ABRAZO.
Hola y muchas gracias por tu comentario. He presentado a José Posada en la serie de héroes anónimos y a Ernesto Cabral en un video en solitario recientemente. Pero me ha costado encontrar mucha evidencia de otros ilustradores mexicanos del siglo XX. Estaré encantado de descubrir más.
that was fun. Thanks Pete.
Hello and thanks again.
Getting a *cover* is coveted by all artists & Vanity Fair was a fine score for *Covarrubias* ... not easy selling art & getting covers & though he died young he saw success while living. I like his wildlife, forest scenes & color work
Hi again and thanks for your comment as usual, and your appreciation od Covarrubias's wonderful work. And the stars of course.
Brilliant.
Thanks for the comment
👍Thank you.🇬🇧🇵🇹
Seja muito bem-vindo, senhor.
Thanks *Pete* ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fascinating. Diverse talents.
Hello and thanks for the comment, which of course I agree with totally.
Great. I’ve always liked Covarrubias. Have you done anything with his contemporary Ralph Barton, whom John Updike wrote about?
Hello and thanks for your comment. Like Covarrubias, Barton originally featured (fairly briefly) in unsung heroes of illustration 12 and again in my video about the humour magazine Life. I must look to see if there is more material on him now than back then, as happened with Covarrubias. If there is I'll make a solo video too, down the line.
Excellent
Thanks as ever.
I actually use to have a worm copy of that book The Eagle, The Jaguar, and The Seprent, no idea where it is now, lost in many a moves prob😐
Hi Pete - I haven't made it through your catalogue yet, but have you covered former GDR artist kurt klamann at some point?
this channel is awesome!!
Hello and thanks for your appreciation of the channel. I'm also very grateful for the suggestion of Kurt Klamann - an illustrator I had not heard of. But the bad news is that having searched for examples of his work there is almost certanly not enough at decent resolution that I could make a feature with. Even for the unsung heroes series I need at least 35 good quality pictures. This has happened before on many occasions I'm sorry to say.
yeah I figured .. I bet there are tons of amazing artists lost in obscurity.
anyway I'll happily dive in and find some gold here. keep it up :) @@petebeard
Thank you, this was very interesting. Do you know what medium Miguel Covarrubias used in his illustrations?
Hi and I'm glad you enjoyed his work. My apologies for not giving any insight into Covarrubias's choice of medium(s). I usually make sure to include such information so this is an oversight on my part. All - or certainly the vast majority - of his painted illustration work was created using gouache paint (sometimes on a watercolour wash base) with increasingly fine brush strokes to add tonal gradation and detail. But he did also work in oils and although I have no proof of it I'm fairly certain some of his Bali and other travel work was created this way. What he would have used for mural work I have no idea, I'm sorry to say.
Hi and thank you for your answer. I see that many of these illustrators achieved great illustrations using gouache and watercolor. I am very impressed of the works of many of these illustrators from the past.
@@petebeard
Would love to know more about the actual techniques he was using....to create these images.
My apologies for not giving any insight into Covarrubias's choice of medium(s). I usually make sure to include such information so this is an oversight on my part. All - or certainly the vast majority - of his painted illustration work was created using gouache paint (sometimes on a watercolour wash base) with increasingly fine brush strokes to add tonal gradation and detail. But he did also work in oils and although I have no proof of it I'm fairly certain some of his Bali and other travel work was created this way. What he would have used for mural work I have no idea, I'm sorry to say.
👍👍👍👍👍
... Shades of Thomas Hart Benson--I like it.
Hello and thanks for your comment, and that's an interesting comparison.
@@petebeard Oh ... Yeah, the one at the 0:45 mark is one example ... Interesting, yes?
Genius.
Agreed.
👍
For me, reality and fantasy go together in the illūstrasyon...
P.S:Sorry for my poor and primitive English.😔
Hello and many thanks for your comment. If you prefer you can comment in your own language (others do) and I can google translate it.
te amo chamaco
Muito obrigado, mas não consigo encontrar uma tradução para 'chamaco', então espero que seja uma coisa boa.
@@petebeardAquí en México “chamaco” is a way of calling a little kid who is growing up, I’m not sure but calling Miguel “el chamaco” is a way to say he is still a “teen” or “youthful”
@@ijosemi Hola de nuevo y gracias por la explicación.
3:16 Standard pronunciation of "caricature" spotted
Totally accidental.
This is getting repetitive--brilliant job! I've seen his work over the years, but couldn't attach a name to it. imagine what we lost due to his early death.
Hello and thanks again. I dont mind repetitive at all. And how he crammed so much into such a short life I'll never know.
that's a lot for 53 years
It certainly was. About enough for two lifetimes I reckon.