The Wild Side of Pino

As promised, here is another installment on the wonderful Pino Pascali.

After exploring his adventures in advertising, I am dedicating this post

to the animal-themed artworks that he created between 1962 and 1965.

 Works from the Africa series, mixed media on acetate, 1964

In the same period, Pascali designed this panel for a mosaic at the FAO headquarters in Rome.

See you again soon with Pino's very Pop sculptures!

Life is Change

I am very happy to be able to feature more elegant creations from one 

of my favorite artists, the lovely and mysterious Kazumasa Nagai.

These images span a period of almost 30 years, from 1969 to 2007.

Many thanks to Vintage Poster, Pink Tentacle and I Desire Vintage Posters.

Notte di Luna

 Fabio de Poli is a contemporary Italian artist living in Firenze.

Since the 1970s he has been creating and exhibiting paintings, collages, posters, 

artist books, sculptures, installations, mosaics, furniture and glass panels. 

Notte di Luna came out in 2004, the first in a series of four books

produced with Andrea Rauch for the small Florentine publisher Volo.

The wordless volume won the H.C. Andersen award in 2005.

A pond at night. The silent moon is mirrored in the water. 

Animals suddenly appear and try to talk to her, 

each with its own language, as in a daydream. 

(from the back cover)

Sunday Safari - Sartorialarium

Michael Sowa, Fowl with pearls

L.H.Jungnickel, from Wiener Werkstatte postcard series

Ann Wood, scrap birds

Leontine Greenberg, Long neck bird reachs the edge

Alvaro Arteaga, Ready for first class

Natasha Fadeeva, thanks to La vie est belle

 Waldemar Swierzy, Cyrk poster, 1974

 Bruce McCall, Catwalk cover for the  New Yorker

 Ronald Searle, Lottie the Hottie, from Beastly Feasts

 Stanislav Kolibal, 1961, thanks to flamenconut

two illustrations from a 1978 Russian children's book (artist unknown), 

thanks to letslookupandsmile

Vyaceslav Legkobit, Fowl with pearls, thanks to Kickcan and Conkers

Donald Brun, Tuch AG, 1955

In the Shade of the Baobab

As soon as I have found these great scans from the 1965 German book "Im Schatten de Baobab" 

on the very interesting Russian livejournal thread kidpix they have become an instant favorite. 

I love the illustrations by Eberhart Binder! I have to admit that possibly I like his trees 

even more than the animals... Many thanks to u_boot_man for uploading these beauties.