Wonderful. His style reminds me of the royals on a deck of playing cards too. I love his symmetrical layouts and use of flat colour too. Thanks for shining a light on this.
The word that kept coming into my head through this-and I watched it twice, once on .25 speed so I could really look at the artworks-was TRIPPY!! It’s like Aubrey Beardsley, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Dadd, and Disney had a love child.😂 Beautiful and wild, sinister and mysterious, cute and goofy, all rolled up together. And I don’t think I could have slept very well in that wealthy child’s bedroom.😮 Thank you sir for another lovely video! And some distraction from fear here in the US.✌️♥️👁️
These days I love grotesque images, but like you, as a kid I would have needed therapy if expected to sleep in that room. But a truly unique talent - not a word I bandy about carelessly.
This is my first time ever seeing Rubino's work.... what a mind bender! So far ahead with his Psychedelic art, he most certainly must have influenced Crumb, Big Daddy Ed Roth and Peter Max... Von Dutch... so many have risen on the shoulder of Rubino! Great find,... great video!
Thanks a lot and I'm very pleased you share my opinion about Rubino's far reaching influence. I wonder (nobody is telling) if those 60s guys were familiar with him specifically or if was just some sort of cultural osmosis?
Thanks for your appreciation. Funnily enough the square head didn't bother me - it was the mad circular eyes of many of his other child characters that got to me.
Talk about coloration and design! Love it! Thanks, as always for you great effort to resurrect so many of those who laid the foundation of illustrators to come! You breathe new life into such a vital craft!
Grazie per aver condiviso l'Arte meravigliosa di Antonio Rubino ! Le faccio nel contempo i miei più sinceri complimenti per il suo canale, veramente un bellissimo encomiabile, un vero riferimento per chi ama la bella grafica di un tempo ❤
Il vostro apprezzamento per il mio lavoro sul canale è molto gradito e sono molto felice che voi e gli altri apprezziate il contenuto. E mi scuso per la mia goffa pronuncia italiana quando ho a che fare con argomenti italiani.
Thanks, Pete. What a fascinating use of simple flat colour and geometry to depict people. I particularly love the character at 16:25 with a bookcase for a head. Very imaginative.
At min 2:30, quadrotetto ( quadratino ), a boy with a squared face, would be a character for a whole drawing life, but no....the artist create one and another in a restless creativity. Today, in a graphic world dominated by "one artist/ one character" Rubino has a "creation locomotive", every illustrations seems the beggining of a series......thanks Pete for your work!
If it's any consolation I only came upon his work accidentally a few years back when looking for something else entirely. He should of course be a household name. Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Having viewed your videos for some time now. I continue to be astounded, if not gob smacked, by the incredible variety of skills and technique of these marvelous artists. . I feel privileged to be a part of this never ending ( I hope) theatre. Thank you so much for your research, tenacity and over the top presentations. Unparalleled.
A very distinctive style, lots of content but most illustrations nearly always have a slightly sinister content. That’s Antonio to my eye. Thanks Pete enjoyed the video. In I fact enjoy them all.
Here is an artist whose powerful vision predicted the visual language of an entire movement some 50 years early. It's already well known that psychedelia was indebted to the sumptuousness and compositional formalism of Art Nouveau, but Rubino's surrealism and visual delight steps so boldly beyond that that it seems to be taken right from the pages of a surfer mag. He died so early into the psychedelic movement, I wonder if he was ever exposed to any of it.
I went to look at Italy and this very thing-and they were using mushrooms in psychological treatments in the 1920’s. Soooo, they knew. Hard to tell if he did them or was just a bit weird, though.😂
Pete, I love the way you seamlessly switch between English and Italian words in your narrative. It is done so smoothly and beautifully. Seeing those Italian words reminds me of my days at the ad agency as a type director, where we would use Italian words in specimen sheets to highlight the beauty of different typeface families. Frank
Thanks a lot for the compliment. I'm not too bad with the latin derived languages of southern europe - its the northern ones that defy me. And don't get me started on Polish...
Once again, you set the bar, Pete. Your research is superlative. Your scripts are highly informative and well presented. Your choices in thumbnails and music always enticing and appropriate. Cheers to you from New Westminster, British Columbia, CA. 🎉
My thanks for your appreciation of so many aspects of my efforts with the channel and content. It's a great feeling to know the work is valued by viewers such as yourself.
What a talented, and fascinating illustrator. I'm not quite sure if his work is my cup of tea as some images seem to border on the grotesque. Thanks again Pete for championing some great, yet often forgotten, artists. Your channel is just outstanding.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation, and you are right about the grotesque element - but in my case it makes the pictures even more fascinating. I wonder what that says about me?
Thank you, Pete, for your introduction of this artist. This is an European version of Winsor Mccay! Beautiful composition, wonderful use of colours. My wife and I also liked the pictures of the childrens bedroom. As always, this has been a treat!
Hello again and thanks a lot as always. There's nothing conclusive about a link with McCay but i would put money on Rubino being aware of his work. And much as I like that bedroom now it would have sent me into therapy as a kid.
Rubino has been one of my favourite illustrators of my early youth, in the 1970s. And now I own all his best books in my collection which is quite huge. And I have got even all the Corriere dei Piccoli since 1908 until 1940. I also have a few original drawings (covers, comics, a beautiful illustration from his masterwork Versi e Disegni 1911). Rubino in 1908 was an enthusiast of the american sunday colour supplements, where he met Little Nemo. He and other artists funded the children magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli, on Christmas 1908, as a sunday supplement of the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. In that magazine they published their comic pages, with verses and not ballons, and the pages from the best american artists. Litte Nemo, McManus' The Newlyweds and Bringing Up Father, The Katzenjammer Kids, and many others. I think Italy was the first european nation to publish these comics, except for Dirks characters published in France before.
Interesting stuff...as always....on a local note...Noddy Holder ( Slade..anyone remember them..? ) popped into Accrington Stanley FC t,other day...Trump, s ex Lawyer is trying to buy my local club, Tranmere Rovers....thankfully Pete,s post keep us going....E...😅😅😅
Thanks as usual, and I wouldn't worry. If anyone even remotely connected with Trump is trying to buy Tranmere you'll be heading for the premier league before long.
Hey Pete, I just discovered your channel while researching for an illustration project I'm working on. Your channel is extremely helpful. Thanks so much for your effort giving these artist the appreciation they deserve!
Fascinating stuff. I didn’t know of Rubino’s work and I’m not quite sure why this video was recommended to me but I’m very glad it was. I’d love to know what kind of influence Rubino had on Miyazaki. Clearly there had to be. The last image is screams Ponyo. Thank you for your work.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I have no idea whether Miyazaki would have been aware of Rubino's work but it's always possible. What is certainly likely is that Rubino had been influenced by Winsor McCay, and I underdtand Miyazaki quotes him as an influence too.
Thanks again Pete, another of your marvellous discoveries/recoveries. I was watching the 'Kevin Barron - A Brief History of Psychedelic Art' YT the other night and I seem to perceive distinct traces of psychedelia in many of Antonio Rubino's illustrations. Makes me wonder if he wasn't experimenting with mushrooms. Maybe I'm just having a flashback, but I suppose the psychedelic artists may have known more about that era than just Alphonse Mucha. [Edit - should have listened all the way through before commenting as I see you make just this point!]
Thanks for the comment and appreciation. I must admit i have never read anytging suggesting that the 60s guys were even aware of Rubino as such, but that of course does not mean that they weren't.
Delightful! His work reminds me of what I have seen of Winsor McCay, mainly Little Nemo. but i also feel i have seen his influence in artists like Ozamu Tezuka, and Vittorio Giardino, amongst others. when you mentioned he worked for Disney, I knew i was not wrong, I saw animations from early Disney that have his style imprinted in them. Thanks again for such a wonderful video!
Thanks a lot, and I agree with you that the various influences swirl around back and forth over the decades - even centuries. I have never read so but it seems pretty certain Nemo was an influence, at least to an extent.
He worked for the italian publisher of Mickey Mouse (Topolino) in the 1930s as director of the magazine. He also made many illustrations and covers for the magazine and for its numerous supplements. But not for the Disney Usa...
I think there are a couple of books available online. And I see what you mean about the equally strange Mr. Woodring (one of very few contemporary artists I admire).
Great video as always:). I was curious if you'd consider making a video on your research process and how you find and pick artists, then find all the images.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and one or two others have asked similar in the past (but never in enough numbers to convince me it's a viable idea for a video). But there really is no great mystery about it. A lifetime's fascination for the subject means that I'm at somewhat of an advantage as I'm already aware (even if not in great detail) of many of those I feature. And those that are new to me just crop up in searches about another similar illustrator or type of illustration. Converting that information to an image search on google and duckduckgo leads me (or you) deeper into the subject at hand and you just keep digging and following the leads offered. You will find sources you never imagined existed.
when I was a kid my teachers giving me as homework the full reading of "VIPERETTA" by Antonio Rubino, an interesting and surreal book that mix usual wrting and illustrations. It was a weird and beautiful experience that I won't forget. Saluti dall'Italia!
Many thanks for your comment about Rubino's work. I must say I wish we had had such marvelous book illustration in Britain when I was a kid.The man was a genius as far as I'm concerned.
@@petebeard thanks, anyway as you said you don't know what the book Viperetta is about, I'll tell you a bit of the synopsis without any spoiler in case you wanna buy the book adapted in your language and read it. it's about a spoiled bratty and troublemaker girl who makes her family life impossible, until her child's tantrum takes shapes of a quartet of imps lookalike that drags her in the moon kingdom as punishment for her behaviour, and she's got to survive with the help of the princess of the moon and a charming Pierrot to find her way back home at her planet before the moon executioner cuts off her tongue and make her unable to speak forever
Many years ago, I was in a used book shop and picked up what looked like a large children’s book from the 1930s. It was nothing but full color double page spreads crammed full of chaotic crowds of animals done exactly in the early Disney style. Looking closer, the scenes were depicting violent wartime acts being inflicted upon the populace, and the signs tacked to the walls in the scenes were in a foreign language. I couldn’t afford the book, and have wondered for decades what I had looked at. Seeing this video and googling Rubino, I see a similar anti-Russian cartoon depicting humans by Antonio Rubino. I now believe the book was done by Him. Does anyone know the name of the book?
Probably it was TIC e TAC, about a war between animals, especially frogs, salamanders and lizards: he was particularly fond of amphibians and reptiles. But that book (its first edition) is from 1919, so no Disney yet. I have got it and it's very rare. In the 1930s was made a new edition
Hi Pete, love the work you do here. Incredible as always. I would love to see a video on the illustrator Burton Rice aka Dynevor Rhys who did movie posters and fashion illustrations from the 1910's-1930's. There doesn't seem to be much information on him available online and I would love to see what you can dig up. Cheers.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And thanks too for the name Burton Rice, who i had never previously heard of. You are right about there not being much about or by him online but a fairly quick search suggests there will at least be just about enough with which to make a sequence for the unsung heroes series when I return to it in the new year. Thanks again.
Uplifting is the word I would use for his work & we need this right now. A sad time we here in the US find ourselves trapped in. This is nice TY *Pete*
Rubino's work seems so familiar, yet I've never seen it before. This can only be because of his influence on other artists through the years. A remarkable synthesis of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, even Futurist and Constructivist elements, but imbued with a later William Heath Robinson silliness. Looking at his work I had memories of an early childhood English comic called "Playhour" which featured Noddy and Big Ears! There's no literal comparison I can make, at least nothing that comes to mind, but rather it's the colours and compositions of the various characters and stories that seem to bear some similarity. One later artist who comes quickly to mind is Theodor "Dr" Seuss. Rubino's fish with the big eyes in those full colour underwater pictures are remarkable precursors to Seuss's cheeky characters. Then there's Rubinos nod to Classicism with his dynamic figures, echoing the work of Willy Pogany. And yet he ties it all together, beautifully. A remarkable talent. I suspect a very influential one, even if he isn't mentioned - a kind of guilty secret! I'd be surprised if the likes of Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Heinz Edelmann and Peter Max weren't in some way influenced by or were admirers of Rubino's work. Another gem in your ongoing series Pete. Thanks very much! Edit: I think Rubino would have been a great choice as illustrator for the short stories of Italian surrealist author, Italo Calvino, notably his "Cosmicomics" collection of tales.
Manythanks for your appreciation and insights about Rubino's work and its many resonant aspects. Anither viewer lamented that Rubino had never tackled Alice in Wonderland, and that surely would have been a sight to see.
@@petebeard Yes, Alice would indeed have been a "psychedelic" experience, particularly if he had been given the opportunity to produce full colour plates along with line and spot colour images!
Mr. Beard, as a big fan of illustration as well, your richly informative videos, thank you for your diligent presentations, bravo! One of my favorite illustrators, amongst many, is Fred Banbery, especially his amazing work on the Alfred Hitchcock horror anthologies. Unfortunately, I have not been able to dig up much information about him, except for some short bios. I am, as I write this, still pleasurably working my way through your wonderful video catalog and have yet to find anything on Mr. Banbery albeit, I still have a ways to go. Query, #1, have you done a video on Mr. Banbery? #2 If not, will you be doing one in the future? Once again, thank you.
Many thanks for your appreciation of my work on the channel. And even more thanks for the name Fred Banbery. I'm forced to admit I had never previously been aware of his work, and now I will be able to feature it on the channel in the future. A quick search indicates that there is very little biographical information and not a vast amount of decent resolution imagery to be had to enable a full video. But there is enough for me to feature him in the unsung heroes series when I start it again in the new year.
Thanks a lot for your comment. Kiraz does feature - but very briefly - in the last part of my tribute to French illustration, and I do like his work. But he's not well represnted enough online to furnish me with enough biography or high-res images to create a solo video. And he was born too late to feature in the unsung heroes series, so I'll have to disappoint you, I'm afraid.
Today i stumbled upon your channel, and absolutely love your videos, im not sure if anyone else has asked, but where do you find all the images of the beautiful illustrations you show? I tried doing a little research across many websites myself but i can barely find anything! Is there a good archive website that holds works by artists you cover?
Hello, thanks a lot for your appreciation and welcome to the channel. I'm sorry to disappoint but there really isn't such an archive. The advantage I have is an accumulated lifetime's knowledge of - and obsession with - illustration so I start from that position of relative strength. Try adding the word 'archive' to your search for a specific illustrator or style you will find at least some of the various sources buried on the internet. But the real task is to keep on digging. Every lead found will lead to another and so on, but it does take persistence.
@ oh i see, thank you so much for the advice! Im a big fan of art and illustration myself but am only now starting my journey on researching and learning about specific artists, i will keep it in mind! I hope your day goes well Pete, thanks again :]
9:51 ... his tight pen and ink drawings remind me of the surreal fever dream work of Jim Woodring (published by Fantagraphic Books) specifically of his character Frank and the bizarre adventures he gets into!
Thanks for the comment, and another viewer has drawn a similar parallel with Woodring's work. And I agree completely. I wonder if Woodring was aware of Rubino...
I haven't featured her, primarily for the reason that I had never heard of her until your comment. I will certainly take a look at her work in some detail and if possible make a video. But I should warn you, I'm already labouring under a list of works in progress of in excess of 50 others, so it may take quite a while. Nevertheless thanks a lot.
Another fabulous video! If I may switch to business mode, I work for a small UK art book publisher (Korero Press) and we're currently creating a trio of books about Arthur Ferrier (1891-1973) and he could make an excellent subject for a video. He's the definition of an unsung hero of British art, despite his influence on pin-up art being vast. Do you ever take suggestions? (Also, I apologise for reaching out in the comments section, it feels most unprofessional but I couldn't find another way!)
Always excellent .. I always repost your vids with full credit of course... do you perchance have a presence on other social media or a web portal where we can contact you?
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I don't have any social media presence and I I'm not able to put out my e-mail address here, but if you have somewhere such as a website I can contact you that would work for me.
Hello Mr. Beard. Are there collected works by Rubino that you are a fan of, or a particular utility you used to research his Art work or is finding the original books (when possible), or reprinted works the best way to see his work?
There is a site online called goodreads, and they list what's available by Rubino. My sources were entirely from the internet, and there was no one significant place I got my images from. To be honest it was a particularly time consuming and frustrating search, but in the end it was worth it. Good luck with your hunt for books.
You've likely been asked this a thousand times before, but would you please consider publishing BOOKS on the subject of illustration? I'd buy them all...
Thanks for the comment, and you might be pleased to know that negotiations are currently taking place with a British publisher about converting video material to books. I'm at the publisher's mercy of course so it may not happen but at the moment it's at least looking promising. If it comes to pass I'll be announcing it on the channel.
@petebeard That's the best news I've had in a while. There's nothing like curling up in the armchair with an illustrated book (and a nice drink). I'll be looking forward! Best of wishes, Dorte
Thanks a lot for your appreciation - as well as the insights and additional information you have provided. It makes complete sense that he would have admired McCay's Little Nemo.
@@paolomacedone453 Coincidentally I'm currently working on a video about Denslow, which I hope to upload early in 2025. And there are distinct similarities - although I must say I much prefer Rubino's work.
Interesting work. There is quite a lot of Rubino's art that doesn't appeal to me. I am drawn to the organic portions of these pieces, but repelled by the mechanical and mathematical portions. The pure shapes seem to create a negative space to my mind. This says more about me than it does about his art. What I appreciate is the way his works make me think about why I'm disturbed by him, especially by his children's illustrations. I like Art Deco with it's straight lines and precise rounded corners and curves, so why does Rubino's work not appeal to me?
Thanks for the comment. And I do know what you mean. There is a repulsive quality in much of his work, although i struggle to pinpoint exactly why I find it so. And even stranger, like a good horror film it's actually part of the appeal for me. In the end my fascination for his work overcomes any misgivings.
• Antonio Rubino Yikes... surreal indeed! That grotesque monkey on your title page almost made me skip this video. If I was a child in early 20th century Italy and my folks gave me his children's books, I probably would've had nightmares. If I had such a bedroom as Rubino's design, I KNOW that I would've had nightmares. I applaud his use of bright colors and the adult-slanted themes are interesting but glad that my childhood had Disney characters along with Tom & Jerry and Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Hello again and I hope I didn't ruin your nocturnal peace and quiet with Rubino's unsettling images. Not everyone's taste but nevertheless a truly unique figure. But now i think of it what about the glorious violence that's in both Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny? There's a T&J where Tom gets a golf ball right in the teeth and they drop out like broken crockery, and oh so many other classic moments.
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Wonders never cease. Each author ressurected by Mr. Beard is top notch. A public service indeed.
Hear hear!
Thanks for another flattering comment about the channel.
This was the kind of comment I was about to write ! Thanks !!
Wonderful. His style reminds me of the royals on a deck of playing cards too. I love his symmetrical layouts and use of flat colour too. Thanks for shining a light on this.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video.
@JohnLloydDavis Did he ever design a deck of playing cards or Tarot cards.
Extraordinary, bizarre, wonderful, disturbing! Its all there! Thank you Peter!
All very good words to describe Rubino's output. Thanks a lot.
art like this just goes to show how far human imagination can go while remaining comprehensible.
I second that, and thanks for the comment.
Rubino's success shows that children are far more capable and appreciative visually than we usually give them credit for!
Thanks for your comment, with which I wholeheartedly agree.On the other hand that bedroom would have had little Pete needing serious therapy.
@@petebeard Hahaha!🤣
The word that kept coming into my head through this-and I watched it twice, once on .25 speed so I could really look at the artworks-was TRIPPY!!
It’s like Aubrey Beardsley, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Dadd, and Disney had a love child.😂
Beautiful and wild, sinister and mysterious, cute and goofy, all rolled up together.
And I don’t think I could have slept very well in that wealthy child’s bedroom.😮
Thank you sir for another lovely video! And some distraction from fear here in the US.✌️♥️👁️
These days I love grotesque images, but like you, as a kid I would have needed therapy if expected to sleep in that room. But a truly unique talent - not a word I bandy about carelessly.
@ yes-unique is indeed very rare!
Thank You Pete. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
There are those who might give you an argument about both those assertions about me, but not me. Thanks a bunch.
This is my first time ever seeing Rubino's work.... what a mind bender! So far ahead with his Psychedelic art, he most certainly must have influenced Crumb, Big Daddy Ed Roth and Peter Max... Von Dutch... so many have risen on the shoulder of Rubino! Great find,... great video!
I was thinking this too! Very much so.
Even the eyeball creature.
Some of his work would easily fit in with the Pop Surrealists.
Thanks a lot and I'm very pleased you share my opinion about Rubino's far reaching influence. I wonder (nobody is telling) if those 60s guys were familiar with him specifically or if was just some sort of cultural osmosis?
@ I wondered that, too, as Mucho was also such a big influence on them.
Crazy good stuff, so strange! Thanks for sharing. Another beautifully made film.
Thanks for the appreciation - always welcome.
Just lovely. Just so respectful and informed. Thank you, Pete.
Now it's back to the salt mines, but I'll be thinking about that square-headed kid.
His poor Mama! 😂
Thanks for your appreciation. Funnily enough the square head didn't bother me - it was the mad circular eyes of many of his other child characters that got to me.
I am so glad you're covering on Rubino's work! I've been enamored by his style for a long time, very unique indeed!
To have been so ahead of the curve and so determinedly weird and wonderful has me in awe of the man. Thanks for your comment.
Talk about coloration and design! Love it!
Thanks, as always for you great effort to resurrect so many of those who laid the foundation of illustrators to come! You breathe new life into such a vital craft!
Yes, he was certainly well ahead of his time. Thanks for your appreciation as always.
Another great example of a pen and ink master with a penchant for bizarre characters and great feeling for composition. Many thanks again!
Thanks for another favourable response to the content.
Grazie per aver condiviso l'Arte meravigliosa di Antonio Rubino !
Le faccio nel contempo i miei più sinceri complimenti per il suo canale, veramente un bellissimo encomiabile, un vero riferimento per chi ama la bella grafica di un tempo ❤
Sono d'accordo 😎
Il vostro apprezzamento per il mio lavoro sul canale è molto gradito e sono molto felice che voi e gli altri apprezziate il contenuto. E mi scuso per la mia goffa pronuncia italiana quando ho a che fare con argomenti italiani.
@@petebeard
Grazie ancora a lei e non si preoccupi per la pronuncia ❤️😃🥂👍
What an ability to create such charismatic characters with a lot of playful energy.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and naturally enough I agree totally.
Another interesting artist and life: Thanks, Pete!
Thanks fir the continued support.
Wow! Thank you for introducing me to another world- class illustrator! Beautiful work!
You are very welcome, and so is your appreciation.
A wonderful escape from our limited century so far…glad to see you still showing us the wonderful world that has been so far….
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and as long as people keep watching them I'll keep making them.
Ah, thank you for covering the great Rubino. There’s nothing like him. The mix of manic energy and tightly controlled graphic language is so special.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation from a fellow Rubino obsessive.
@@petebeard I wish he had illustrated Alice, as Rubino's work has the mad energy that I feel
in Carroll's text.
Thank you again and again!
Your appreciation is always welcome.
The image at 15:16 reminds me of "Hokusai" especially "the great wave"
Well spotted and thanks for the comment.
Correct
Thanks, Pete. What a fascinating use of simple flat colour and geometry to depict people. I particularly love the character at 16:25 with a bookcase for a head. Very imaginative.
You are as always very welcome, and that picture is a favourite of mine, too. Weird but wonderful.
At min 2:30, quadrotetto ( quadratino ), a boy with a squared face, would be a character for a whole drawing life, but no....the artist create one and another in a restless creativity. Today, in a graphic world dominated by "one artist/ one character" Rubino has a "creation locomotive", every illustrations seems the beggining of a series......thanks Pete for your work!
Hello again and thanks a lot for your appreciation, as always. Rubino really was one of a kind.
Quadratino...
how did I never hear of Rubino? I love this guy. His characters and design work is amazing! I must find some books by this guy, Thanks for this post!
If it's any consolation I only came upon his work accidentally a few years back when looking for something else entirely. He should of course be a household name. Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Having viewed your videos for some time now. I continue to be astounded, if not gob smacked, by the incredible variety of skills and technique of these marvelous artists. .
I feel privileged to be a part of this never ending ( I hope) theatre.
Thank you so much for your research, tenacity and over the top presentations. Unparalleled.
Your appreciation is very welcome, and it's a good feeling to know that viewers such as yourself value the work I put in.
A very distinctive style, lots of content but most illustrations nearly always have a slightly sinister content. That’s Antonio to my eye. Thanks Pete enjoyed the video. In I fact enjoy them all.
Thanks for your comment and continuing appreciation. Myself, I'm a fan of the sinister - but for children?
Thank you again! Fascinating, stylish work that should be reprinted for sale today as I believe it would be wildly popular.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
Great works! I love it, still feel modern somehow.
Thanks a lot and yes he was well ahead of his time.
Wow! So beautiful. Consistency of style yet dynamic creativity. The symmetry and characters are striking. I wish he created a Tarot deck!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
Very nice work! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your appreciation.
Here is an artist whose powerful vision predicted the visual language of an entire movement some 50 years early. It's already well known that psychedelia was indebted to the sumptuousness and compositional formalism of Art Nouveau, but Rubino's surrealism and visual delight steps so boldly beyond that that it seems to be taken right from the pages of a surfer mag. He died so early into the psychedelic movement, I wonder if he was ever exposed to any of it.
I went to look at Italy and this very thing-and they were using mushrooms in psychological treatments in the 1920’s.
Soooo, they knew. Hard to tell if he did them or was just a bit weird, though.😂
Thanks a lot for your comment, and I suspect he would not have been aware of the hippy illustrators at the time. I'm sure he would have approved.
Again another great lesson in art and history. Thank you so much for the time and effort that you put into these videos.
When the responses are as favourable as yours and others I've had that's the best reward there is.
What a delight, and I enjoyed the child's room and your closing assortment of images. Thank you!
Thanks againn for your enduring favourable responses to the channel content. That room would have given me nightmares as a child, though.
@@petebeard....without sounding like Monty python....it was grim up North....Birkenhead....although the docks did and still do look impressive....😊😊😊
Amazing artist, thank you for bringing him to our attention!
It's a pleasure to be able to do so. Thankd for your appreciation.
I'll get this in before I'm chatbanned again: I love these vids & am always watching, rarely able to pass the appreciation. Cheers Pete.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. Chatbanned? I don't know what that is but it doesn't sound good.
Pete, I love the way you seamlessly switch between English and Italian words in your narrative. It is done so smoothly and beautifully. Seeing those Italian words reminds me of my days at the ad agency as a type director, where we would use Italian words in specimen sheets to highlight the beauty of different typeface families. Frank
Thanks a lot for the compliment. I'm not too bad with the latin derived languages of southern europe - its the northern ones that defy me. And don't get me started on Polish...
The violin solo told me this would be a great presentation! Thank you!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Mr. Beard you are amazing love all your work Sir!
That's very kind of you. Thanks for the appreciation.
Once again, you set the bar, Pete. Your research is superlative. Your scripts are highly informative and well presented. Your choices in thumbnails and music always enticing and appropriate. Cheers to you from New Westminster, British Columbia, CA. 🎉
My thanks for your appreciation of so many aspects of my efforts with the channel and content. It's a great feeling to know the work is valued by viewers such as yourself.
Incredible imagination and creative thinking.
I'll second that. Thanks for the comment.
Always the highlight of my week. Thanks, Pete!
My hgratitude as always for your championing of the channel.
What a talented, and fascinating illustrator. I'm not quite sure if his work is my cup of tea as some images seem to border on the grotesque. Thanks again Pete for championing some great, yet often forgotten, artists. Your channel is just outstanding.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation, and you are right about the grotesque element - but in my case it makes the pictures even more fascinating. I wonder what that says about me?
thanks for this always interesting work mr. beard.
Many thanks for your appreciation and comment.
Very interesting work. I'm also impressed that the artist continued to work so long on children's books and comics.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciationof Rubino's work.
Excellent as always.Thank you sir.
I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the appreciation.
Thank you, Pete, for your introduction of this artist. This is an European version of Winsor Mccay! Beautiful composition, wonderful use of colours. My wife and I also liked the pictures of the childrens bedroom. As always, this has been a treat!
I was also reminded of Windsor McCay. I see the influence of Japanese printmakers like Hokusai as well
Hello again and thanks a lot as always. There's nothing conclusive about a link with McCay but i would put money on Rubino being aware of his work. And much as I like that bedroom now it would have sent me into therapy as a kid.
I love this!
Thanks a lot.
@petebeard So many of these illustrator I recognize their art even if I didn't know their names or stories.
I found his images to be incredible. It makes me wonder what he was thinking at the time of their creation? Thanks, sir.
Many thanks for your apprciation of this video and Rubino's remarkable work.
Rubino has been one of my favourite illustrators of my early youth, in the 1970s. And now I own all his best books in my collection which is quite huge. And I have got even all the Corriere dei Piccoli since 1908 until 1940. I also have a few original drawings (covers, comics, a beautiful illustration from his masterwork Versi e Disegni 1911). Rubino in 1908 was an enthusiast of the american sunday colour supplements, where he met Little Nemo. He and other artists funded the children magazine Il Corriere dei Piccoli, on Christmas 1908, as a sunday supplement of the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. In that magazine they published their comic pages, with verses and not ballons, and the pages from the best american artists. Litte Nemo, McManus' The Newlyweds and Bringing Up Father, The Katzenjammer Kids, and many others. I think Italy was the first european nation to publish these comics, except for Dirks characters published in France before.
I needed this Pete. I needed this *right now.* Thank you!
I won't pry as to the reason you needed to see this video urgently, but if it did the job for you that's good enough for me.
@@petebeard Thanks, Pete! Don't fret - nobody I know died, was sick, or any of that dire sort of thing 😂
Great work as usual Pete, Thank you 👍
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the appreciation.
Interesting stuff...as always....on a local note...Noddy Holder ( Slade..anyone remember them..? ) popped into Accrington Stanley FC t,other day...Trump, s ex Lawyer is trying to buy my local club, Tranmere Rovers....thankfully Pete,s post keep us going....E...😅😅😅
Thanks as usual, and I wouldn't worry. If anyone even remotely connected with Trump is trying to buy Tranmere you'll be heading for the premier league before long.
@@petebeard....nicely put ,Pete....😅😅😅
Waw. Another great video about a for me unknown illustrator!
I'm gald you appreciate his work and my efforts in trying to get him more exposure.
Hey Pete,
I just discovered your channel while researching for an illustration project I'm working on. Your channel is extremely helpful. Thanks so much for your effort giving these artist the appreciation they deserve!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I hope you continue to find the content of interest.
In my opinion, the only underground cartoonist that comes close to Rubio's work is possibly Robert Williams. Thank you for the great work Mr. Beard.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of the video.
It is clear that Antonio Rubino knew very well how to play with the principles of art. Such a unique artist and such wonderful art.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of his work.
Fascinating stuff. I didn’t know of Rubino’s work and I’m not quite sure why this video was recommended to me but I’m very glad it was. I’d love to know what kind of influence Rubino had on Miyazaki. Clearly there had to be. The last image is screams Ponyo. Thank you for your work.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I have no idea whether Miyazaki would have been aware of Rubino's work but it's always possible. What is certainly likely is that Rubino had been influenced by Winsor McCay, and I underdtand Miyazaki quotes him as an influence too.
Thanks again Pete, another of your marvellous discoveries/recoveries. I was watching the 'Kevin Barron - A Brief History of Psychedelic Art' YT the other night and I seem to perceive distinct traces of psychedelia in many of Antonio Rubino's illustrations. Makes me wonder if he wasn't experimenting with mushrooms. Maybe I'm just having a flashback, but I suppose the psychedelic artists may have known more about that era than just Alphonse Mucha. [Edit - should have listened all the way through before commenting as I see you make just this point!]
Thanks for the comment and appreciation. I must admit i have never read anytging suggesting that the 60s guys were even aware of Rubino as such, but that of course does not mean that they weren't.
Delightful! His work reminds me of what I have seen of Winsor McCay, mainly Little Nemo. but i also feel i have seen his influence in artists like Ozamu Tezuka, and Vittorio Giardino, amongst others. when you mentioned he worked for Disney, I knew i was not wrong, I saw animations from early Disney that have his style imprinted in them. Thanks again for such a wonderful video!
Thanks a lot, and I agree with you that the various influences swirl around back and forth over the decades - even centuries. I have never read so but it seems pretty certain Nemo was an influence, at least to an extent.
He worked for the italian publisher of Mickey Mouse (Topolino) in the 1930s as director of the magazine. He also made many illustrations and covers for the magazine and for its numerous supplements. But not for the Disney Usa...
Simply amazing ! I hope there are books available . Some of his work makes me think Jim Woodring was a fan.
I think there are a couple of books available online. And I see what you mean about the equally strange Mr. Woodring (one of very few contemporary artists I admire).
Great video as always:). I was curious if you'd consider making a video on your research process and how you find and pick artists, then find all the images.
I was wondering the same thing.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and one or two others have asked similar in the past (but never in enough numbers to convince me it's a viable idea for a video). But there really is no great mystery about it. A lifetime's fascination for the subject means that I'm at somewhat of an advantage as I'm already aware (even if not in great detail) of many of those I feature. And those that are new to me just crop up in searches about another similar illustrator or type of illustration. Converting that information to an image search on google and duckduckgo leads me (or you) deeper into the subject at hand and you just keep digging and following the leads offered. You will find sources you never imagined existed.
when I was a kid my teachers giving me as homework the full reading of "VIPERETTA" by Antonio Rubino, an interesting and surreal book that mix usual wrting and illustrations.
It was a weird and beautiful experience that I won't forget. Saluti dall'Italia!
Many thanks for your comment about Rubino's work. I must say I wish we had had such marvelous book illustration in Britain when I was a kid.The man was a genius as far as I'm concerned.
@@petebeard thanks, anyway as you said you don't know what the book Viperetta is about, I'll tell you a bit of the synopsis without any spoiler in case you wanna buy the book adapted in your language and read it. it's about a spoiled bratty and troublemaker girl who makes her family life impossible, until her child's tantrum takes shapes of a quartet of imps lookalike that drags her in the moon kingdom as punishment for her behaviour, and she's got to survive with the help of the princess of the moon and a charming Pierrot to find her way back home at her planet before the moon executioner cuts off her tongue and make her unable to speak forever
@@davideburnacci2126 Thanks a lot for that. And it's every bit as weird as I guessed it might be.
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Many years ago, I was in a used book shop and picked up what looked like a large children’s book from the 1930s. It was nothing but full color double page spreads crammed full of chaotic crowds of animals done exactly in the early Disney style. Looking closer, the scenes were depicting violent wartime acts being inflicted upon the populace, and the signs tacked to the walls in the scenes were in a foreign language. I couldn’t afford the book, and have wondered for decades what I had looked at. Seeing this video and googling Rubino, I see a similar anti-Russian cartoon depicting humans by Antonio Rubino. I now believe the book was done by Him. Does anyone know the name of the book?
It certainly sounds like you had stumbled on Rubino's wartime work. I have no idea about what book it may have appeared in though.
Probably it was TIC e TAC, about a war between animals, especially frogs, salamanders and lizards: he was particularly fond of amphibians and reptiles. But that book (its first edition) is from 1919, so no Disney yet. I have got it and it's very rare. In the 1930s was made a new edition
Hi Pete, love the work you do here. Incredible as always.
I would love to see a video on the illustrator Burton Rice aka Dynevor Rhys who did movie posters and fashion illustrations from the 1910's-1930's.
There doesn't seem to be much information on him available online and I would love to see what you can dig up.
Cheers.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And thanks too for the name Burton Rice, who i had never previously heard of. You are right about there not being much about or by him online but a fairly quick search suggests there will at least be just about enough with which to make a sequence for the unsung heroes series when I return to it in the new year. Thanks again.
I was thinking from 1910 on that the Grateful Dead, Incredible String Band and Hawkwind would have been happy to employ him for album cover art.
That's true. His Giardino book did remind me of the layers of the Onion cover.
What fun!
Agreed! Thanks for the comment.
Uplifting is the word I would use for his work & we need this right now. A sad time we here in the US find ourselves trapped in. This is nice TY *Pete*
Yes. Very much yes.
Many thanks, and if the channel can bring a little relief from harsh reality so much the better.
Rubino's work seems so familiar, yet I've never seen it before. This can only be because of his influence on other artists through the years. A remarkable synthesis of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, even Futurist and Constructivist elements, but imbued with a later William Heath Robinson silliness.
Looking at his work I had memories of an early childhood English comic called "Playhour" which featured Noddy and Big Ears! There's no literal comparison I can make, at least nothing that comes to mind, but rather it's the colours and compositions of the various characters and stories that seem to bear some similarity.
One later artist who comes quickly to mind is Theodor "Dr" Seuss. Rubino's fish with the big eyes in those full colour underwater pictures are remarkable precursors to Seuss's cheeky characters.
Then there's Rubinos nod to Classicism with his dynamic figures, echoing the work of Willy Pogany.
And yet he ties it all together, beautifully. A remarkable talent. I suspect a very influential one, even if he isn't mentioned - a kind of guilty secret!
I'd be surprised if the likes of Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Heinz Edelmann and Peter Max weren't in some way influenced by or were admirers of Rubino's work.
Another gem in your ongoing series Pete. Thanks very much!
Edit: I think Rubino would have been a great choice as illustrator for the short stories of Italian surrealist author, Italo Calvino, notably his "Cosmicomics" collection of tales.
Manythanks for your appreciation and insights about Rubino's work and its many resonant aspects. Anither viewer lamented that Rubino had never tackled Alice in Wonderland, and that surely would have been a sight to see.
@@petebeard Yes, Alice would indeed have been a "psychedelic" experience, particularly if he had been given the opportunity to produce full colour plates along with line and spot colour images!
Mr. Beard, as a big fan of illustration as well, your richly informative videos, thank you for your diligent presentations, bravo! One of my favorite illustrators, amongst many, is Fred Banbery, especially his amazing work on the Alfred Hitchcock horror anthologies. Unfortunately, I have not been able to dig up much information about him, except for some short bios. I am, as I write this, still pleasurably working my way through your wonderful video catalog and have yet to find anything on Mr. Banbery albeit, I still have a ways to go. Query, #1, have you done a video on Mr. Banbery? #2 If not, will you be doing one in the future? Once again, thank you.
Many thanks for your appreciation of my work on the channel. And even more thanks for the name Fred Banbery. I'm forced to admit I had never previously been aware of his work, and now I will be able to feature it on the channel in the future. A quick search indicates that there is very little biographical information and not a vast amount of decent resolution imagery to be had to enable a full video. But there is enough for me to feature him in the unsung heroes series when I start it again in the new year.
@@petebeard Appreciate the reply, and I'm looking forward to seeing the video. Thank you.
Another great video! Do you have any videos featuring Edmond kiraz?
Thanks a lot for your comment. Kiraz does feature - but very briefly - in the last part of my tribute to French illustration, and I do like his work. But he's not well represnted enough online to furnish me with enough biography or high-res images to create a solo video. And he was born too late to feature in the unsung heroes series, so I'll have to disappoint you, I'm afraid.
Today i stumbled upon your channel, and absolutely love your videos, im not sure if anyone else has asked, but where do you find all the images of the beautiful illustrations you show? I tried doing a little research across many websites myself but i can barely find anything! Is there a good archive website that holds works by artists you cover?
Hello, thanks a lot for your appreciation and welcome to the channel. I'm sorry to disappoint but there really isn't such an archive. The advantage I have is an accumulated lifetime's knowledge of - and obsession with - illustration so I start from that position of relative strength. Try adding the word 'archive' to your search for a specific illustrator or style you will find at least some of the various sources buried on the internet. But the real task is to keep on digging. Every lead found will lead to another and so on, but it does take persistence.
@ oh i see, thank you so much for the advice! Im a big fan of art and illustration myself but am only now starting my journey on researching and learning about specific artists, i will keep it in mind! I hope your day goes well Pete, thanks again :]
9:51 ... his tight pen and ink drawings remind me of the surreal fever dream work of Jim Woodring (published by Fantagraphic Books) specifically of his character Frank and the bizarre adventures he gets into!
Thanks for the comment, and another viewer has drawn a similar parallel with Woodring's work. And I agree completely. I wonder if Woodring was aware of Rubino...
Have you talked about the illitrations of Sheilah Beckett so far? She's one of my favourites.
I haven't featured her, primarily for the reason that I had never heard of her until your comment. I will certainly take a look at her work in some detail and if possible make a video. But I should warn you, I'm already labouring under a list of works in progress of in excess of 50 others, so it may take quite a while. Nevertheless thanks a lot.
Another fabulous video! If I may switch to business mode, I work for a small UK art book publisher (Korero Press) and we're currently creating a trio of books about Arthur Ferrier (1891-1973) and he could make an excellent subject for a video. He's the definition of an unsung hero of British art, despite his influence on pin-up art being vast. Do you ever take suggestions?
(Also, I apologise for reaching out in the comments section, it feels most unprofessional but I couldn't find another way!)
Thanks for the comment, and I've replied via the Korero website at greater length.
Always excellent .. I always repost your vids with full credit of course... do you perchance have a presence on other social media or a web portal where we can contact you?
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I don't have any social media presence and I I'm not able to put out my e-mail address here, but if you have somewhere such as a website I can contact you that would work for me.
Hello Mr. Beard. Are there collected works by Rubino that you are a fan of, or a particular utility you used to research his Art work or is finding the original books (when possible), or reprinted works the best way to see his work?
There is a site online called goodreads, and they list what's available by Rubino. My sources were entirely from the internet, and there was no one significant place I got my images from. To be honest it was a particularly time consuming and frustrating search, but in the end it was worth it. Good luck with your hunt for books.
You've likely been asked this a thousand times before, but would you please consider publishing BOOKS on the subject of illustration?
I'd buy them all...
Thanks for the comment, and you might be pleased to know that negotiations are currently taking place with a British publisher about converting video material to books. I'm at the publisher's mercy of course so it may not happen but at the moment it's at least looking promising. If it comes to pass I'll be announcing it on the channel.
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That's the best news I've had in a while. There's nothing like curling up in the armchair with an illustrated book (and a nice drink). I'll be looking forward!
Best of wishes, Dorte
I forgot to make my best congratulation to my master Mr Beard for this addition to his huge collection of videos about illustrators
Thanks a lot for your appreciation - as well as the insights and additional information you have provided. It makes complete sense that he would have admired McCay's Little Nemo.
@@petebeard I suppose also that he saw and appreciated Denslow...
@@paolomacedone453 Coincidentally I'm currently working on a video about Denslow, which I hope to upload early in 2025. And there are distinct similarities - although I must say I much prefer Rubino's work.
Interesting work.
There is quite a lot of Rubino's art that doesn't appeal to me.
I am drawn to the organic portions of these pieces, but repelled by the mechanical and mathematical portions.
The pure shapes seem to create a negative space to my mind.
This says more about me than it does about his art.
What I appreciate is the way his works make me think about why I'm disturbed by him, especially by his children's illustrations.
I like Art Deco with it's straight lines and precise rounded corners and curves, so why does Rubino's work not appeal to me?
Thanks for the comment. And I do know what you mean. There is a repulsive quality in much of his work, although i struggle to pinpoint exactly why I find it so. And even stranger, like a good horror film it's actually part of the appeal for me. In the end my fascination for his work overcomes any misgivings.
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Wonderful zany imagination, but I felt his earlier work for children was rather uncomfortable.
Thanks for the comment. It's hard to immagine how it could have been so popular with little Italians, and yet it was.
As much as I love your vide3os, could you talk about more modern illustrators?
Thanks for the comment. And I'm sorry to disappoint but the whole point of the channel is to resurrect illustrators from the past.
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Yikes... surreal indeed!
That grotesque monkey on your title page almost made me skip this video.
If I was a child in early 20th century Italy and my folks gave me his children's books, I probably would've had nightmares. If I had such a bedroom as Rubino's design, I KNOW that I would've had nightmares.
I applaud his use of bright colors and the adult-slanted themes are interesting but glad that my childhood had Disney characters along with Tom & Jerry and Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Hello again and I hope I didn't ruin your nocturnal peace and quiet with Rubino's unsettling images. Not everyone's taste but nevertheless a truly unique figure. But now i think of it what about the glorious violence that's in both Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny? There's a T&J where Tom gets a golf ball right in the teeth and they drop out like broken crockery, and oh so many other classic moments.
Alice in Wonderlandish.
Similarly surreal, it's true.
Se la grafica e' quella della scimmietta di copertina, un libro di fiabe appartenente a mia nonna, lo ricorda molto.Parlava di una certa " strega Gallura"...chissa'
Molte grazie per il tuo commento e sono contento che tu abbia apprezzato il lavoro di Rubino.
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