THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARTHUR SZYK HD
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- Arthur Szyk featured very early on in the unsung heroes series, and like others I'm pleased to return to him and his work in a solo video more in line with his status and significance as an illustrator.
And this time I think I've even pronounced his name correctly.
The details are Amazing ..So much work in each piece is overwhelming.......😮..😊
Hello and thanks for your comment.
Thanks and best regards.
Hello and my thabks to you too.
Incredible work! Thanks.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Wonderful. I'm glad he was rediscovered.
He's never really been forgotten. There are a number of collectors.
Hello and so am I.
...And you have contributed to keeping Szyk's work alive, too, Pete. Thanks for this, some incredible art. Gouche and I never got along, so I'm even more in awe of how he handled the medium. Also liked Szyz's take on the Four Freedoms; we're so conditioned to see only Rockwell's versions. An interesting video might be Bible/religious illustration through the ages (don't know many, Doré comes to mind first...). Great work as always, Pete. Take care, hope you're getting some sunshine!
Hi Doug, and yes I've just come in from helping the missus stick a few new plants in the garden, and with luck a refreshing glass or three admiring our handiwork as the sun goes down. Sometimes even Manchester is bearable. And I do have a piece on 6 centuries of Biblical illustration almost ready to go. It's been an immense and difficult undertaking and I bet it doesn't get a lot of views, but either way it'll appear in a month or two.
@@petebeard Looking forward to it, Pete! Raising s glass to you, the missus and the plants... and Art!🎨
Szyk's artwork has formed part of my mental furnishings since I was a kid: My parents kept copies of his illustrated Andersen's fairy tales and Arabian Nights in the bookcase (which I now have at my own house). The first video that featured Szyk inspired me to add his Canterbury Tales to my collection.I've purchased a number of books I hadn't previously known about, after viewing your gorgeous and highly informative series. Thank you, so much. You are performing a great service to our species.
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation of this video tribute. Before I started making these videos I was completely ignorant of his work, and to say it was a revelation would be an understatement.
Another splendid tribute to a very talented artist. Thank you!
Hello and thanks for your appreciation.
Absolutely stunning work! THANK YOU for bringing his work to light!
Helo and I'm glad you appreciate his work.
Always glad when you highlight fellow artist I admire. My mother has The Book of JOB and Chaucer in her library, as a teen I started pouring over the illustrations. Syzk’s works are so charming and well rendered, and beloved even if some don’t know him by name. While creating props and sets for a Shakespearean summer stock in upstate NY I found many torn out pages of his work in a barn. Actually didn’t know he used gouache, for some reason I’d always imagined them as heavy watercolors. Wasn’t till many years later I became familiar with his political work, now with the internet he’s easier to find. Grateful again for your tribute, he definitely deserves wider recognition and acclaim.
Hello and thanks for your comment and appreciation. And it seems he used both gouache and watercolours, although more frequently the former. If you zoom into a decent resolution image you can see the fine individual brush strokes associated with that medium.
...I had a book of Andersen's tales with these very same illustrations!!!
Pete! this was beautiful. Thank You again for giving Szyk his due. He certainly deserves to be sung long and loudly. Your videos give me an invaluable boost in my mental health.
Best to you. 🕊🏵💐✨✴🏳🌈🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨Take care
Hello again and thanks as ever for your continuing appreciation.
This is the first time I've heard of this artist. Thank you for putting this together!
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
Wonderful! Incidentally, this was the first of your videos that I really wanted to be able to watch at 4K resolution. The detail in those illustrations was amazing!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I would like to upload in 4k but my software (like me) is antiquated and doesn't support resolution higher than 1080. And to be fair I'm fairly sure many of the images I feature couldn't stand that level of increased definition.
Dear Pete, I am a manga assistant from Japan, originally from Germany and I love watching your videos on illustrations ever since you started your channel. Since I have been thrown into the speed-demanding entertainment meat grinder world of manga, I like to watch your videos to remind myself of the slow-paced roots I have been coming from and want to return to. Thanks for your never ending efforts to besing the unsung ones. With best regards.
勉強！勉強！😁
Hello and many thanks for your comment and support for the channel. My curiosity led me to look for your work on your channel and you deserve many more views than you have had so far. And the sensitivity if your line and wash technique is very rewarding for this viewer. I wish you well in your bid to escape the 'meat grinder'.
Fantastic artist and beautiful video! It is amazing that Szyk was able to create such detailed paintings that still held together compositionally! He led an epic life in epic times.
Hello and thanks as ever for your favourable comment.
Goodness, how beautifully crafted his work was. Even the satirical pieces had masterful composition, flow, colouring and balance. Borders and decorative elements within many pieces were mini masterpiece in themselves. What a skilled artist he was. Thank you for bringing us this inspiring episode.
Hello again and many thabks for your appreciation of Szyk's remarkable work.
What a magnificent selection of images from another artist that I've never heard of! Thanks again Pete.
Hello and I'm glad to have made the introduction.
Thanks for bring this genius artist to life. I cannot imagine the effort and talent it took to create so many colorful complex illustrations. He definable was given divine talent by God.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Agree, highly detailed, vivid colors, interesting ... obvious how much *Szyk* loved his work & the *patience* he had w/ it Thank You *Pete*
Hello again and thanks for the comment and stellar emojis.
What wonderful caricatures, layout, and the COLOR! Looks like stained glass; gorgeous. Thanks again for your great videos.
Hello and I'm very pleased that you appreciate his astonishing work.
Thank you. The Book of Ruth, Job, etc. were first issued by George Macy in the Limited Editions Club, later reprinted in his Heritage Press. You brought back many wonderful memories. My father, and later myself, were members of the Limited Editions Club. I sold my fine press book collection to finance immigrating to Wales. I did not sell "Ink & Blood", which was signed to my mother. I gave that volume to my niece. An image you did not use in your superb video was of Queen Elizabeth and the quote, "“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England, too.” From childhood I was deeply impressed by that image. Again, thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciative comment. Until I started making these videos I was completely unaware of Szyk's existence. Now of course I'm fairly obsessed with it. And that Elizabeth image didn't come up on any of my excavations, unfortunately.
What an incredible artist capable of such beautiful and detailed illustration. I had to put the video to full screen to enjoy full benefit of such delightful artwork. And that's on a 42 inch monitor.
Hello and thanks a lot. I must admit I watched this one myself on the TV screen and was pretty pleased with the outcome.
I've seen the Haggadah, very beautiful.
Hello and that's an experience I wouldn't mind having.
didn't know him before, thank you Sir he is truly a sublime artist, I stop the video to look at his works much longer because there are many figures and objects especially the classic Renaissance style paintings.
Hello and I;m very pleased you appreciate his work.
Art is long, life is short.
Once again Pete you have done an an amazing job of bring someone’s work back to the masses. Thank you!
Hello and many thanks for your comment. It's appreciated.
What a remarkable illustrator. Thank you for showcasing his work.
Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable response.
Thanks for the lovely music and lovely subject matter.
Hello and many thanks for your favourable comment about this video.
Arthur Szyk is an amazing artist, i could look at his art for many hours without getting bored.
Loved watching this video .
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
As a child growing up in the 1970's I had a copy of the Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales illustrated by Szyk and was absolutely enchanted by the illustrations. They played a large part in the development of my aesthetic and I never forgot that book. I recently acquired another copy and look at it from time to time. He was an immense talent. I'd love to see an exhibition of his works.
Hello and many thabks for your comment. I too would dearly like to see some original work. I understand he painted quite small which must have made his work even more demanding.
Thanks again for these. Not only reminders of gorgeous art, but include some real insight into the history and climate of the period. I can tell these are a lot of work and reasearch and what a great job you do narrating them.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. And I do put my best efforts into making the videos but it's more a labour of love than actual work.
Beautiful use of color, but even his simple line drawings convey so much life and humor. Thank you for the introduction.
Hello and I'm very pleased to have introduced you to this man;s marvellous body of work.
Whew. That was amazing. His output makes me feel like I need to forgo sleep in order to catch up. It should probably only take 25 years. Really nice job.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It's starting to dawn on me that many of those I feature in the series weren't just spectacualrly talented, but were equally prolific. Even those like Szyk who burned rather briefly.
An absolute genius!!! I first became aware of his wonderful art when my father bought me a record album of Danny Kaye reading the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. The album cover was the art of Arthur Szyk. Years later, I was able to see an exhibition of his in Berkeley, California and even purchased a couple of prints. I also enjoy a reprint of the poetry of Omar Khayyam. Last year, I received a commission to paint images of the three wise men. I did them in an illumination style "à la Szyk".
I'm glad you share my unbridled admiration for the man's astonishing talent and skill. How I would love to see some originals, particularly as I understand they were usually unexpectedly small.
My art teacher, in my senior year at high school, talked about him. The name was quite distinctive. I think the reason that my instructor told me about him is that we both worked in the same medium. I didn't know that until I saw your presentation! Thank you very much!
Hello Pete! In Szyk - totaly unknown for me - we have found a great artist ( and I'not discovering America ! ), in the ancient medieval art - completely updated - of illumination. The borders between illustrations, the composition, the scenification of stories...all remember us, repeat, in a modern style, the handmade illuminated book's.
It's one of my searchs, the evolution of illumination art....not comic art....it's another quality step, may I can say "intellectual step".
The pre war illustrations, are also, not only great art rather than an allert about the times to come.
Another thanks for your work.
Hi Gabriel. I hope your relocation went well and you are settled in your new place. And I forgot that Catalans aren't too happy about being called Spanish. Apparently it was when he first went to Paris that he became interested in illuminated manuscripts.
Thank you. The artists you showcase continue to inspire as does your work in creating these enlightening pieces.
Hello again and thanks for your ongoing support and appreciation. It means a lot.
At last!! I've loved Szyk my entire life, thank for this wonderful homage -- this channel rocks! (as the kids say :)
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation - again. Always welcome. I don;t know if I have said so before but I was completely unaware of his work until I started making these videos - what a revelation.
@@petebeard I believe that the exhibition you mentioned traveled to Chicago's Spertus Museum, and what I recall especially was the mounted magnifying glass that Szyk employed to create his intricate miniatures.
Completely amazing and I had never heard of him till a reference elsewhere. Glad I looked!! Beautiful video and even more beautiful talent!!!
Thanks a lot for your comment and I'm pleased to have introduced you to his under-appreciated work.
The first book I ever owned was a copy of Szyk's Hans Andersen tales. I spent a lot of time poring over those illustrations. It was only much later that I realized it was just a small part of his work. Thank you so much for expanding the sense of where these illustrations came from!
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation of this video. I hope it will increase awareness of his remarkable talent.
Another great video on this subject not a repeat but a companion piece to the last Arthur szyk video you made
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment.
It is so interesting to learn about history through art.
Hello and naturally enough I'm very glad you think so. Thanks for the comment.
👍Thank you. Obrigado. 🇬🇧🇵🇹
Olá e você é muito bem-vindo.
I enjoy all of your videos but this one most of all! My Szyk collection started with Andersen's fairy tales.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. He's another who I struggle to imagine why he isn't a household name.
So wonderful!!! I'm a big SZYK fan and you have presented many images of his work I've never seen before. Thank you so much for this video and your presentation!
Hello again and thanks again for your appreciation. He was a remarkable and prolofic talent, that's for sure.
What talent! That man had a gift from on High. It would be hard to believe one could be that good through practice, practice and more practice. I am surprised he is not more well known today.
Hello again, and if it hadn't been for George Gooche and the Szyk society he would be even less well known. A criminal state of affairs which will be rectified when my plan for global domination comes to fruition.
Lovely and appropriate choice of music. Thanks for another wonderful video.
Hello again and thanks as ever. Your appreciation is very welcome.
Another great offering from Lancashire ,s finest ...cheers Pete, best wishes from the wirral..E..😊
Hi Eamonn, and thanks as usual.
I did not know him, as too many things more.Thank you!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I didn't know he existed until I started making videos.
Well worth a second view (and thanks for mentioning that as I was sure I remembered Szyk from a previous issue). Amazingly intricate and boldly contrasting colours - better than life, but no harm in that.
Hello and many thanks for the appreciation. Sometimes they are well worth a closer look, I think.
Amazing! I have owned the Hans Christian Andereon book since I was a kid; used to just pore over those paintings and the sepia tone drawings. Only recently knew about all the other cool work he did. Now I even know how ryompronounce his name! Thank you!
Hello and thanks for the comment. I must admit when I first featured him a few years back I got the name wrong too.
Wow!👍
Thank you for this! Szyk was definitely worthy of his own episode. I first learned about him from you, and now I own a first edition of his 1925 Book of Esther. It's probably the fanciest but far from the only book I've bought after watching one of your videos!
Hello and thanks a lot. I'm trying to not make too much if a habit of returning to those who have already appeared (however briefly) as I still have plenty of others in the pipeline. But talents of the magnitude of Szyk's can't get too much exposure, in my book.
A beautiful videoa featuring a great artist.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video.
Arthur Szyk reminds me of Gerhard Haderer, an Austrian contemporary illustrator. Very finely worked and detailed he also draws a lot of political things. Thanks!
Hello and thanks for your comment and appreciation. And thanks too for the name Gerhard Haderer, who I had previously not encountered.Great technique and satirical edge.
I so enjoy all your videos, your detail and research is amazing and your voice is so soothing-I watch one of your videos each evening before bed, I can watch them over & over, they always set the stage for sweet dreams.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I take no credit for the voice - but it's very flattering you like it, and if it induces a good night's sleep that's a bonus.
Just stunning how craft and imagination can elicit such magnificent work. Thank you Pete for taking the time. I can't offer thanks for the work because if one is doing something they love it isn't work at all. Ain't life cruel? J/K. Turned my son onto your channel and will start Tweeting as well, you deserve a trillion views.
Hello and thanks for your supportive comment. And thanks too for passing the channel on to another generation. I steer away from what youtube refer to as 'analytics' but I do know I have significantly struggled to engage younger viewers so far. Im probably too slow paced and visually unexciting. Their loss, I say.
Outstanding - both the artist and your video of his incredible works. Especially loved the early pencil drawings - for some reason those always appear fresh and unique to me but so much detail and color in everything else. Will watch again for sure. And spot-on choice for music. I even got a little lost in it at times and had to repeat what I missed of your narrative. :D Thanks, Pete!
Hello and thanks a lot. His work really does stand repeated and intense viewing.
Phenomenal achievement in a single lifetime.
Hello and it wasn't even that long a lifetime. Amazing.
No doubt I'm showing my age, but i remember Szyk well. An attention to decorativeness and detail in his literary-illustration and religious modes unequaled until the (in a very different context) psychedelic work of the 60s (and i would bet those artists remembered Szyk well too) But when the merciless skewerer of Nazidom maintains silence on the Katyn massacre and the takeover of his country...can you blame HUAC for getting suspicious?
Hello again and thanks as usual for your comment and insight.
Hello from India 🇮🇳 , Congrats
Hello to you from England and many thanks for your appreciation.
Well-presented and informative, as usual. And, of course, all previous superlatives et cetera et cetera!
Hello again and thanks once more for the et ceteras..
OMG! What beautiful and rich illustrations! The complexity and richness of his color are almost overwhelming! The borders could be studies in themselves!
Your closing with Chopin's music and a series of luscious paintings reveal your own ability to showcase and elevate Szyk's work!
Question: His darker (almost black works), are they graphite or pen and ink? Some of the P&I are obvious. Others are unknown to me - but gorgeous! Tnx! REALLY Thanks!
Hello again and many thanks for your even more than usually enthusiastic response to this video. And I'm glad to say there seems to have been a very positive reaction to Szyk's remarkable output from many viewers. Regarding the monochromes I couldn't say for sure, as really close examination tends to get overly pixelated but if I had to guess I'd say sometimes all ink, sometimes pencil and sometimes both. But we would need to see them in the flesh to be sure and in my case that's about as likely as my hair growing back.
Dear Dr. Beard. Is half the screen missing, on the right? or . Just. My reception on my device? Marvelous work on your part, as always. Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach Ca Etats Unis
Hi Gregg, and I'm sorry to say it but I think it's your device, not the video. I double checked and it seems OK ti me and apoarently the other viewers.
Dear Mr Beard. You are-absolutely correct. It is my faulty phone. I am just glad that I practiced due diligence and let you know that awry seemed to be afoot. Even if the foot is in my own proclaiming mouth. All best wishes to you for this Sumner ahead. Kindest regards for your pure performance in so many ways. Gregg Oreo Long Beach Ca Etats Unis
Hi Pete, impressive video as always. Unfortunately, you fell into a trap with your choice of music that many have fallen into before you. The third (?) song " Spring Waltz " is unfortunately not by Chopin. It is by Paul de Senneville, a contemporary. So there could be copyright problems because of that ...
Hello and thanks for the comment. I'm a yahoo when it comes to classical music and only used Chopin because I knew he was Polish. But other than the first piece (which I only recognised form a Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band album) I knew none of it and simply downlaoded a file claiming to be his work. So far nobody has complained about copyright but if they do I'll re-upload with a new track.
that anti racism piece, "do not forgive them for they know what they do" wow. Cold as ice! he was pulling no punches!
Hello and many thanks for your comment.
Great content, as always.
Hello and thanks a lot.
Please consider Jan Marcin Szancer, another Polish illustrator.
Kindest regards
PS. Thank you for amazing and very informative productions. Pure class as always.
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Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel. I have already featured Szancer in unsung heroes 16. There are a few other Polish illustrators in the series too, and when I upload instalment 100 I'm posting a complete list of those featured in each video so far. So I hope you will find that helpful. I love Szancer's work and would have liked to give him his own video, but like some others there doesn't appear to be enough biography to work with. And my apologies for pronouncing his name incorrectly in the video.
@@petebeard UH 16 thank you for information. I'll definitely watch it. Appreciation is well deserved for such amount of work and passion you put into it.
Thank you
How do you only find them?
His prophetic satire was so accurate.
Why don't they look at (listen to) fools, kids and one should add artists,as the saying goes....
If you would give us the information, of whom were those beautiful piano pieces in the background ,for the uneducated but appreciating lot.
Thanks anyway,
as you always dig up the /not- gold/ but: "ohsomuchmoreinteresting" gems of artists!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's good to know that viewers enjoy the channel content. I can't be a lot of help regarding the music - other than that they are all (or so I thought) compositions by Frederic Chopin. I'm a complete ignoramus when it comes to classical and that is borne out by the fact that a viewer has very nicely pointed out that the third piece used isn't actually by Chopin at all. But I just got them from a youtube download so if you search for Chopin's piano pieces I'm sure you'll find them and plenty of other similar melodies.
Szyk's color book illustrations remind me of fantasy artist George Barr (who did his color work with color ball point pens!)..
Hello again and many thanks for the name George Barr. I'd never seen his work before and a casual look indicates he's worth exploring.
I like that crisp line style.
I have to laugh at my own comments sometimes.
Hello and thanks for the comment. Not sure why it would make you laugh though...
@@petebeard at myself. I could have been a little more specific to the work. How about I like works that look like his. It's difficult to describe (for me lol). I try to emulate that style. I've earned a whopping 400$ doing so.
@@jeffcrist2977 Hello again and thanks for the clarification. I thought that was what you meant but it seemed like a reasonable enough comment to me, however brief. Anyway, I hope you find greater financial success with your endeavours.
@@petebeard Thanks Pete. Very kind. I've heard the journey is much of the reward.I've learned much because you do what you do. Thanks for taking the time.
Hello there! I just came across this channel, and to say i'm amazed would be an understatement. I'm not knowledgeable at all regarding illustrators, but perhaps you have heard about an artist called William Moyers, or maybe even you have already mentioned him at some point? I'd love to get to know about his work. Sorry if i'm asking the obvious question here, as i said i know very little about this field and would prefer to know whether you have a video on him without going through every one of them (i will probably do so anyway tho)
Thanks for your work and cheers from Spain!
Hello and many thanks for your favourable opinion of the channel. And more thanks for the name William Moyers, who I had never previously heard of. I would have liked to feature him in the unsung heroes of illustration series, but sadly he was born a bit too late to qualify. There's no reason you would know this but the latest date of birth is 1910. Unfortunately this means leaving out later arrivals such as Mr. Moyers. But I'm still grateful that you have introduced me to his work.
@@petebeard thank you for your answer! Glad I could provide you a new discovery!
Thank you very much for your work! It would be interesting to know about the British illustrators of the turn of the century. Published in 2000 AD magazine and other. In my opinion, this magazine is no less interesting than MAD
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation, and suggestion for a video topic. But I'll leave that subject to others as it;s a real blind spot for me, and generally I confine myself to illustrators who are no longer with us. Occasionally I feature contemporary illustrators in the later stages of historical overview videos such as Grimms or Shakespeare, but it's not my area of knowledge.
Good lord. I have been on TH-cam for years. How is it today I am seeing your channel for the first time?
Hello and thanks a lot for your recent comments about the channel. I'm very pleased you found it and I hope you'll continue to find content that's of interest. There's quite a bit of it to go at.
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Szyk didn't skip on the detail.
Hello and how he had that combination of patience and precision I can't imagine.
HO-LEE crap!!! I had a book of Andersen's tales as a kid....with these same illustrations...
I s r a e l I t e.....Exodus from ancient Egypt.
( ' Jews ' don't exist untill first Synagogue ..." People's House " which incidently King Herod ' enclosed ' within his Temple . )
All 12 tribes of Israel made Exodus.
"Jews" are offspring of Babylonian captors.......
They are the least considerable , genepool wise in Exodus.
Egyptian citizens made Exodous.
Not , " Jews "