You can't draw in books - we are taught this from childhood. However, looking at works by Australian artist Loui Jover, you understand that there are exceptions to every rule, especially if we are talking not just about scribbled caricatures, but about real works of art. The recipe for success is simple and complex at the same time: ink, old yellowed book pages and a pinch of inspiration is all you need to create these vintage masterpieces.
Most often, Loui Jover paints women's faces: the special texture of book sheets, black and white contrasts - exquisite minimalism helps to display a huge range of women's feelings and experiences.
The artist is also especially good at depicting romantic scenes: the faceless silhouettes of couples in love seem to come to life and look very realistic. Loui Jover's drawings are often “rainy”: drizzling sketches create a special atmospheric mood, and ink streaks look so much like a veil of rain, and on girls’ faces they look like tears involuntarily rolling down.
The talented Queensland artist explains the unusual concept of his work, saying that book pages are better than, for example, blank sheets of paper or parchment. A whimsical combination of text, a variety of fonts and graphic images with ink drawings gives birth to absolutely new meaning and some contrived “backstory” for each image. In addition, the author tries to create light, literally airy paintings, hovering “above the text,” so fleeting that “a gust of wind could blow them away at any moment.”
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You can't draw in books - we are taught this from childhood. However, looking at works by Australian artist Loui Jover, you understand that there are exceptions to every rule, especially if we are talking not just about scribbled caricatures, but about real works of art. The recipe for success is simple and complex at the same time: ink, old yellowed book pages and a pinch of inspiration is all you need to create these vintage masterpieces.
Most often, Loui Jover paints women's faces: the special texture of book sheets, black and white contrasts - exquisite minimalism helps to display a huge range of women's feelings and experiences. This brings his work closer to the drawings of the Chinese artist, about whom we have already told our readers.
The artist is also especially good at depicting romantic scenes: the faceless silhouettes of couples in love seem to come to life and look very realistic. Loui Jover's drawings are often “rainy”: drizzling sketches create a special atmospheric mood, and ink streaks look so much like a veil of rain, and on girls’ faces they look like tears involuntarily rolling down.
A talented artist from Queensland explains the unusual concept of his work, saying that book pages are better than, for example, blank sheets of paper or parchment (we remind you that we have already written about ink illustrations created on parchment by the artist on our website Culturology.ru) . A bizarre combination of text, various fonts and graphic images with ink drawings gives rise to a completely new meaning and a kind of far-fetched “backstory” for each image. In addition, the author tries to create light, literally airy paintings, hovering “above the text,” so fleeting that “a gust of wind could blow them away at any moment.”
On March 4, a meeting of the club “The Charming Power of Art” was held on the topic “ Women's faces Russian prose". As part of the implementation innovative project“Medicine for the soul”, aimed at the rehabilitation of elderly and disabled citizens through bibliotherapy, in the day care department of a comprehensive center social services of the population, a video lecture “Women's faces of Russian prose” took place.
The therapeutic effect of reading on a person’s emotional and psychophysical state has been scientifically proven. A skillfully selected book, like medicine, through the images, feelings, and thoughts that arise when reading it, can have a positive impact on the reader’s well-being. Among the diversity literary trends women's prose has a special power of influence, flow, distinctive feature which is Her Majesty “Woman”: the plot is connected with her fate, she is the author and central heroine of the work. Having emerged in Russia in the 70s of the last century, “women’s prose” immediately won the hearts of millions of the fair sex with a special world filled with bewitching stories about love, touching about life. With her appearance, such stars as T. Tolstaya, L. Ulitskaya, G. Shcherbakova, D. Rubina lit up on the domestic horizon. According to one of the best authors of the new wave of literature, E. Vilmont: “Women’s prose heals. This is an easy read, filled with humor, optimism, and self-confidence. Reading that heals not only the soul, but also the heart.”
Employees of the district library service department, who organized a video lecture, introduced its participants to the biography and creativity of the most readable ladies of our country: V. Tokareva, T. Ustinova, N. Nesterova, E. Arsenyeva, E. Vilmont. Recorded interviews with writers and their photographs were shown to the participants of the event. To this category of their users, librarians presented books by these masters of modern women's sentimental literature in the genres of detective, historical, and romance novels. At the end of the meeting, a festive quiz “Queens of Muses and Beauty” was held with those present.
In the 70s, a “new wave” of literature appeared. This literature was heterogeneous, and the authors were often united only by the chronology of the appearance of their works and a common desire to search for new artistic forms. Among the works of the “new wave,” books appeared that began to be called “women’s prose.” But this phenomenon has not yet been studied, there is almost no critical literature, and more and more books are appearing on store shelves.
A conversation took place in model library No. 13 - a discussion of “Women's faces of Russian prose.” Our regular readers, lovers of this genre of literature, took part in the discussion.
“Many lovers of a good book, hearing the phrase “women's prose,” will smile contemptuously - it’s not ours, they say. We don't read this! And I had to read several new books that arrived in library No. 13, which can be attributed specifically to this category. And I don’t regret the lost time one bit!” - said our regular reader Biryukova O.G. and a participant in our conversation. Many discussion participants agreed with her opinion. We also shared which books of “women’s prose” we read in Lately, about what you liked and what you didn’t.
Tokareva Victoria
Muravyova Irina
Stepnova Marina.
NESTEROVA (UMERENKOVA) Natalya
Vilmont Ekaterina
Melnikova Irina
Shilova Yulia
Shcherbakova Galina
Kulikova Galina
Traub Maria
As we see, modern women's prose is thriving, it is rich in names, genres and publications. Maybe we're exaggerating, but it seems to me that today women's fiction is in unprecedented bloom. It has grown to “great literature”, moved to a qualitatively new level and, of course, deserves the attention of not only female but also male readers.