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Illustration

Two-Dimensional and Graphic Arts

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.

Facts
Medium
A decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, for print and digital media. 1
Signature Technique
Digital illustration used to make websites and apps more user-friendly, such as emojis accompanying digital type. 1
Place of Origin
England: the English word itself is late Middle English, arriving via Old French from the Latin illustratio(n-). 1
Notable Example
Breaking Home Ties by Norman Rockwell, sold at a 2006 Sotheby's auction for US$15.4 million. 1
Illustration
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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

Arthur Hughes, Artists
Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Arthur Hughes
Source Aubrey Beardsley - Wikipedia
Source Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Wikipedia)
Source Frederic Remington (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Giovanni di Paolo
James Gillray, Artists
Source Getty ULAN artist record 500017355, Gillray, James
James Tissot, Artists
Source Wikipedia: James Tissot
Source John Everett Millais (Wikipedia)
John Tenniel, Artists
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
Lorenzo Lotto, Artists
Source Wikipedia: Lorenzo Lotto
Source Norman Rockwell - Wikipedia
Source Olle Hjortzberg (Wikipedia)
Otto Dix, Artists
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)
Winslow Homer, Artists
Source Winslow Homer - Wikipedia

Works In This Form

Book of Durrow, Works

Insular illuminated Gospel book.

Codex Amiatinus, Works

Anglo-Saxon illuminated pandect Bible.

Source Dropping the Pilot (Wikipedia)
Golden Haggadah, Works

Illuminated Passover manuscript.

Join, or Die, Works
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.

Utrecht Psalter, Works

Carolingian illuminated psalter.

Vienna Genesis, Works

Early Byzantine illuminated Greek manuscript.

Giant illuminated Romanesque bible.

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1. Illustration (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • lead section, Illustration
    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.
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Norman Rockwell - Wikipedia
Practitioners: Norman Rockwell, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: Norman Rockwell, Lead section
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.
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Winslow Homer - Wikipedia
Practitioners: Winslow Homer, Lead section
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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.
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Aubrey Beardsley - Wikipedia
Practitioners: Aubrey Beardsley, Lead section
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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.
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John Everett Millais (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPractitioners: John Everett Millais, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: John Everett Millais, Lead section
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.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPractitioners: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lead section
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.
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Pierre Bonnard (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPractitioners: Pierre Bonnard, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: Pierre Bonnard, Lead section
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.
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Frederic Remington (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPractitioners: Frederic Remington, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: Frederic Remington, Lead section
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.
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Olle Hjortzberg (Wikipedia)
Practitioners: Olle Hjortzberg, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: Olle Hjortzberg, Lead section
Gustaf Olof (Olle) Hjortzberg (14 November 1872 - 8 March 1959) was a Swedish painter and illustrator.
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Wikipedia: James Tissot
Practitioners: James Tissot, Lead
Quote, Practitioners: James Tissot, Lead
was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist
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Wikipedia: Lorenzo Lotto
Practitioners: Lorenzo Lotto, Lead
Quote, Practitioners: Lorenzo Lotto, Lead
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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Wikipedia: Giovanni di Paolo
Practitioners: Giovanni di Paolo, Lead
Quote, Practitioners: Giovanni di Paolo, Lead
was an Italian painter, working primarily in Siena, becoming a prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts
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Dropping the Pilot (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form: Dropping the Pilot, Lead sentence
Quote, Works In This Form: Dropping the Pilot, Lead sentence
Dropping the Pilot is a political cartoon by Sir John Tenniel, first published in the British magazine Punch on 29 March 1890.
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The Bosses of the Senate (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form: The Bosses of the Senate, Lead sentence
Quote, Works In This Form: The Bosses of the Senate, Lead sentence
The Bosses of the Senate is an American propagandistic political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine.
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Join, or Die (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form: Join, or Die, Lead sentence
Quote, Works In This Form: Join, or Die, Lead sentence
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.
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Supermac (cartoon) (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form: Supermac (cartoon), Lead
Quote, Works In This Form: Supermac (cartoon), Lead
was a 1958 cartoon image of Harold Macmillan
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog (Wikipedia)
Works In This Form: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, Lead
Quote, Works In This Form: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, Lead
a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner
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Getty ULAN artist record 500017355, Gillray, James
Practitioners: James Gillray, Roles
Quote, Practitioners: James Gillray, Roles
illustrator
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)
Practitioners: Utagawa Kuniteru, Record heading
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Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Arthur Hughes
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist NamesPractitioners: Arthur Hughes, Record heading
Quote, Practitioners: Arthur Hughes, Record heading
Hughes, Arthur (British painter and illustrator, 1832-1915)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Otto Dix
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist NamesPractitioners: Otto Dix, Roles
Quote, Practitioners: Otto Dix, Roles
illustrator
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for John Tenniel
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist NamesPractitioners: John Tenniel, Record heading
Quote, Practitioners: John Tenniel, Record heading
Tenniel, John (English painter and illustrator, 1820-1914)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Joseph Keppler
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist NamesPractitioners: Joseph Keppler, Record heading
Quote, Practitioners: Joseph Keppler, Record heading
Keppler, Joseph (American cartoonist, publisher, 1838-1894)
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