There appears to be no information about Sasek’s life during the war years when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia, which I find a bit curious. As a young man in the 1930s, he took on commissions from book publishers, newspapers, and journals, and illustrated brochures for companies such as Wagon-Lits/Thomas Cook travel agency. He studied architecture for a while but really was more interested in drawing and painting. Sasek was born in Prague in 1916 and was drawn to art early in life.
The Illustrators: Miroslav Sasek provides some background on the man and information about how his art evolved from his youth until his death at the age of 63 in 1980. Sasek’s art in the “This Is …” series is distinctive, eye catching, and playful, evocative of 1960s advertising and cartoons, but with some collage work and beautiful, precise renderings of famous landmarks mixed in. Paris, London, Rome and Venice were definitely in that cupboard, and I think that they inspired me later in life to study foreign languages and history, and to travel to the places he showed in his books. I loved them and still have a few of them. Among those books were several of Miroslav Sasek’s “This Is …” travel books for children. I used to sneak out after bedtime, grab some books and bring them back into my room to read. When I was little, my parents kept our books in a cupboard right outside my bedroom. Cbr14bingo Minds I think this review fits the category since the book explores the life and work of artist Miroslav Sasek.
0 kommentar(er)
