Illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, made for use in print and digital media such as posters, books, magazines, teaching materials, animation, video games and film. It is created by an illustrator, and digital illustration in particular has become common in web and app design, including small elements such as emojis paired with text.
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MediumA decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, for print and digital media. 1 Signature TechniqueDigital illustration used to make websites and apps more user-friendly, such as emojis accompanying digital type. 1 Place of OriginEngland: the English word itself is late Middle English, arriving via Old French from the Latin illustratio(n-). 1 Notable ExampleBreaking Home Ties by Norman Rockwell, sold at a 2006 Sotheby's auction for US$15.4 million. 1 Connections
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Comics, Art Forms Comics and illustration share the same visual-narrative drawing tradition, and many comics artists trained and worked as illustrators.
Practitioners
Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Arthur Hughes
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Source Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Wikipedia)
Source Frederic Remington (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Giovanni di Paolo
Source Getty ULAN artist record 500017355, Gillray, James
Source Wikipedia: James Tissot
Source John Everett Millais (Wikipedia)
Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for John Tenniel
Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Joseph Keppler
Source Wikipedia: Lorenzo Lotto
Source Norman Rockwell - Wikipedia
Source Olle Hjortzberg (Wikipedia)
Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Otto Dix
Source Pierre Bonnard (Wikipedia)
Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)
Source Winslow Homer - Wikipedia
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Insular illuminated Gospel book.
Anglo-Saxon illuminated pandect Bible.
Source Dropping the Pilot (Wikipedia)
Illuminated Passover manuscript.
Source Join, or Die (Wikipedia)
Insular illuminated Gospel book.
Source On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog (Wikipedia)
Source Supermac (cartoon) (Wikipedia)
Source The Bosses of the Senate (Wikipedia)
Illuminated manuscript book of hours.
English illuminated Apocalypse manuscript.
Carolingian illuminated psalter.
Early Byzantine illuminated Greek manuscript.
Giant illuminated Romanesque bible.
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1. Illustration (Wikipedia)
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Digital illustrations are often used to make websites and apps more user-friendly, such as the use of emojis to accompany digital type.
Etymology, Illustration
The origin of the word "illustration" is late Middle English (in the sense ‘illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment’): via Old French from Latin illustratio(n-), from the verb illustrare.
high prices at auction passage, Illustration
The US artist Norman Rockwell's painting "Breaking Home Ties" sold in a 2006 Sotheby's auction for US$15.4 million.
View the Source Norman Rockwell - Wikipedia
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Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture.
View the Source Winslow Homer - Wikipedia
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Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
View the Source Aubrey Beardsley - Wikipedia
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( BEERDZ-lee; 21 August 1872 - 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
View the Source John Everett Millais (Wikipedia)
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet ( MIL-ay; 8 June 1829 - 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools.
View the Source Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Wikipedia)
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Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( rə-ZET-ee; Italian: [rosˈsetti]), was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
View the Source Pierre Bonnard (Wikipedia)
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Pierre Bonnard (French: [pjɛʁ bɔnaʁ]; 3 October 1867 - 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
View the Source Frederic Remington (Wikipedia)
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Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art.
View the Source Olle Hjortzberg (Wikipedia)
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Gustaf Olof (Olle) Hjortzberg (14 November 1872 - 8 March 1959) was a Swedish painter and illustrator.
View the Source Wikipedia: James Tissot
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was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist
View the Source Wikipedia: Lorenzo Lotto
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was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities
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was an Italian painter, working primarily in Siena, becoming a prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts
View the Source Dropping the Pilot (Wikipedia)
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Dropping the Pilot is a political cartoon by Sir John Tenniel, first published in the British magazine Punch on 29 March 1890.
View the Source The Bosses of the Senate (Wikipedia)
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The Bosses of the Senate is an American propagandistic political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine.
View the Source Join, or Die (Wikipedia)
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Join, or Die. (stylized JOIN, or DIE.) is a political cartoon showing the disunity in the American colonies, originally in the context of the French and Indian War in 1754.
View the Source Supermac (cartoon) (Wikipedia)
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was a 1958 cartoon image of Harold Macmillan
View the Source On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog (Wikipedia)
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a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner
View the Source Getty ULAN artist record 500017355, Gillray, James
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illustrator
View the Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)
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Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)
View the Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Arthur Hughes
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Hughes, Arthur (British painter and illustrator, 1832-1915)
View the Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Otto Dix
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illustrator
View the Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for John Tenniel
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Tenniel, John (English painter and illustrator, 1820-1914)
View the Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Joseph Keppler
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Keppler, Joseph (American cartoonist, publisher, 1838-1894)
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