but only two that I really like,
Art Deco and Art Nouveau, and it was that latter style that these illustrations are taken from, François Schuiten’s Obscure Cities, the artist is Belgian,
and he’s best known for his drawing in the series Les Cités Obscures, a
collaboration with his childhood friend, Benoît Peeters, they first worked
together at the age of 12 on a school magazine; Benoît wrote the fictional
stories, Fançois made the imaginative drawings, and pretty soon the faculty
tried to stop them from publishing it, preferring Latin translations
and moralizing anecdotes as more appropriate subject matters, after losing
sight of each other for a few years, they re-joined forced in the 1980s to
create “Les Cités Obscures” (The Obscure Cities, or a more accurate French
to English translation of the title is Cities of the Fantastic), and what fantastical illustrations they truly are,
they made
ten albums in the graphic novel series there is a list at the end of this post,
which invited us to a counter-Earth, a parallel world of their
imaginations. “In this fictional world, humans live in independent city-states,
each of which has developed a distinct civilization, each characterized by a
distinctive architectural style”, as an aside if you ever have the chance to
check out the Paris metro station Arts et Métiers, he designed it, for
everything you need to know about The Obscure Cities, head over to Altaplana,
these are the original albums:
The Great Walls of Samaris
Fever in Urbica
The Tower
The Road to Armilia
Brüsel
The leaning Girl
The Shadow of a Man
The Invisible Frontier (Volumes 1 and 2)
The Theory of the Grain of Sand
Memories of the Eternal Present
You can catch up on all The Obscure Cities, available on Amazon, for myself what stunning art works.
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