This is a Saul Steinberg cartoon from the late 1940s. The fellow was a genius. I used to study his cartoons in the New Yorker when I was but a youth, This vignette serves as an example of how a modest illustration can communicate complex ideas with simple techniques. In art (and advertising), the idea or message is the point. Getting that concept across to the audience is always the assignment. Calling Steinberg's work "cartoons" may seem to demean the importance of his art, but he was an efficient communicator of very subtle concepts and observations. His work should be considered by folks in the visual communication business.
No comments:
Post a Comment