Fine Art Covers

[scratchie]

I just picked this up at my LCS yesterday:
http://www.agitators.com/foto/qomix/sb159.jpg.

Inspired, I presume, by a classic Rene Magritte painting:
http://www.cultkanaal.nl/Kunst/magritte1945-2.jpg

I've also got this classic Steranko cover:
http://www.agitators.com/foto/qomix/nf07.jpg

Which, while not a direct "swipe" from "The Persistance of Vision", is obviously "Daliesque" in conception. http://www.mystudios.com/treasure/dali/persistence_thumb.jpg

Any other good tributes to "real" artists?

[Mike Kuypers]

I was going to point to two issues of DC's Captain Atom, but the GCD is acting weird right now. I'll try again later.

[Mike Kuypers]

Let's try this again... Michelangelo's Pieta (http://www.romaviva.com/Vaticano/michelangelo-pieta.jpg) received a tribute from Captain Atom not once (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=43417&zoom=4) but twice (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=48280&zoom=4).

[dan bailey]

the latest issue of image's emissary (which i haven't read yet because the lcs neglected to order me its immediate predecessor, #3 ... i'm about to cut my pull list to the bone because of plummeting interest on my part, but this is one i'll probably keep on there) is based on dali's rendition of the crucifixion. probably i wouldn't have realized that, since one crucifixion pretty much looks like another (boy, does that sound heartless), but iirc the artist notes the homage on the inside cover.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/arktrav/th_29224044995.gif (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/arktrav/29224044995.gif)

[dan bailey]

Let's try this again... Michelangelo's Pieta (http://www.romaviva.com/Vaticano/michelangelo-pieta.jpg) received a tribute from Captain Atom not once (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=43417&zoom=4) but twice (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=48280&zoom=4).

i thought of those as well. seems like i've seen a rundown somewhere of quite a few covers inpsired by the pieta, most prominently (probably) the crisis on infinite earths cover of superman holding the slain supergirl, but of course those captain atom covers are considerably closer to the original in composition.

the death of captain marvel, which preceded crisis & captain atom by a few years, comes immediately to mind as well --

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/arktrav/th_23188796604.gif (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c129/arktrav/23188796604.gif)

[Cherokee Jack]

Here's the earliest cover I remember seeing that features what I much later learned was called the pieta.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17693&zoom=4

[T GUy]

Dan, dali's rendition of the crucifixion. probably i wouldn't have realized that, since one crucifixion pretty much looks like another
Dali's is famous for its unusual angle.

[Kan-Man]

Here's the earliest cover I remember seeing that features what I much later learned was called the pieta.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17693&zoom=4

Do these count? (I never studied...)

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/Kan-Man/1851_4_3.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/Kan-Man/1847_4_40.jpg

[scratchie]

I would say that just someone holding someone in their arms -- like that Batman cover -- isn't necessarily a tribute to the Pieta. The Captain Marvel and Captain Atom ones have the same body angle, etc., so it's obviously the same pose. Otherwise, it's just someone holding someone else, which has been done millions of times.

[Lone Ranger]

In my mind's eye I can see a picture of Mister Miracle & Barda in the American Gothic pose.

I did a quick search and couldn't find a cover, so perhaps it was a DC house ad.

Anyone else remember this one?

I imagine there are others based on American Gothic.

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/images/wood_med.jpg

[dan bailey]

In my mind's eye I can see a picture of Mister Miracle & Barda in the American Gothic pose.

I did a quick search and couldn't find a cover, so perhaps it was a DC house ad.

Anyone else remember this one?



i definitely remember it from a house ad. seems like oberon was depicted somewhere in the background, too.

[MDG]

This…

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=11823&zoom=4

…and this…

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=66448&zoom=4

…are both based on this:

http://www.pieceofeight.com/costume-note.htm

I never made the connection between the Superboy cover and the Magritte, and wonder if there was a connection. That’s always been one of the covers that’s always made me think, “What in hell could happen in that story?” Never read it though.
MDG

[benday-dot]

On a related note, has anyone ever seen Kirby's cubist exposition I've read a little about. Entitled, The Fourth Dimension is a Many Splattered Thing” I think it might be from Alarming Tales #1, 1957, Harvey. Maybe someone could clarify its source. It is reprinted in this magazine http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Arf-Craig-Yoe/dp/1560976292 and is a Kirby piece I would love to get my hands on. It is reasonable, I think to suggest, that given Kirby's radical take on perspective and his adherence to geometric forms in the basic construction of his figures that he would have something in common with Picasso and the cubist gang.

[swinebread]

Electric Warrior #11 had an Escher cover
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42574&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3146/400/3146_4_11.jpghttp://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/ascending_and_descending.jpg

[swinebread]

More Escher from Electric Warrior #18.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=43420&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3146/400/3146_4_18.jpghttp://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/bond_of_union.jpg

[swinebread]

And of course we all know the recent She-Hulk cover #11.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=303627&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15104/400/15104_4_011.jpg

[swinebread]

Ok, this isn't a comic cover but it's so cool! Spiderman: The Other poster.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/VitruvianSpider-Man_150.jpg/400px-VitruvianSpider-Man_150.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_The_Other

[Reptisaurus!]

The covers to Promethea by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams three referenced Van Gogh and Alphonse Mucha and some other dudes I forget.

[swinebread]

Secret Origins #10 Phantom Stranger a la Escher
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42350&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3166/400/3166_4_10.jpghttp://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/another_world.jpg
http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/jbescher.htm

[swinebread]

The covers to Promethea by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams three referenced Van Gogh and Alphonse Mucha and some other dudes I forget.
Starry Night on the cover of Promethea #19
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=100435&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/7063/400/7063_4_019.jpghttp://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/van_gogh_starry_night.jpg

[Mike Kuypers]

An Escher-inspired Wonder Woman (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=43203&zoom=4) cover by George Pérez.

[benday-dot]

Here's an interior art swipe folks might have caught and enjoyed if they picked up the Busiek/Ross Marvels series or tpb, and are fans of the great American painter Edward Hopper.

First is Hoppers masterpiece "Nighthawks" http://www.assumption.edu/dept/history/HI14Net/hopper.nighthawks.jpg

Next is my scan (sorry the panel was at the spine, and tough to get without mutilating my Marvel's trade) of the swipe of the gang gathering at Hopper's Phillies.