Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 - April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert , is a prominent American illustrator. He is especially remembered for the widely published image (a mori or vanity memento) titled All Is Vanity . This image uses a double (or visual) image in which a woman's scene admires herself in the mirror, when seen from a distance, looking like a human skull. The title is also a bit, because this type of dresser is also known as a dressing table. The phrase "All is vanity" comes from Ecclesiastes 1: 2 ( The pride of pride, the word Ecclesiastes, the pride of pride, all vanity. ) This refers to the vanity and pride of man. In art, pride has long been represented as a woman who is preoccupied with her beauty. And the art that contains the human skull as a focal point is called a mori's memento (Latin for "remember you will die"), a work that reminds people of their mortality.
Little is known that Gilbert was an early contributor to animation, and a camouflage artist (or camoufleur) to the US Delivery Council during World War I.
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Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gilbert is the youngest of three sons Charles Edwin Gilbert and Virginia Ewing Crane. As a child, he is an invalid (the circumstances are not clear), with the result that he often makes drawings for self-pleasures (Leonard 1913).
At the age of sixteen, he began to study art with Charles Noel Flagg, the official portrait painter for the State of Connecticut, who also founded the Connecticut Art Student League. In 1892, he enrolled in the Art Students League of New York, where he stayed for two years. In 1894, he moved to France for a year, where he studied with Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Academie Julien in Paris ( New York Times 1913).
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Career illustration
Upon his return from Paris, Gilbert settled in New York, where he began his active career as an illustrator of books, magazines, posters, and calendars. The illustrations are often published at Scribner's , Harper's , Atlantic Monthly and other leading magazines. That was before, when he was a student in the Arts Student League, that he completed the All Is Vanity, an image that became popular when first published in the magazine's Life in magazine in 1902.
In the course of his art career, Gilbert illustrates a large number of books, among them Ellen Glasgow's Life and Gabriella (1916), HG Wells ' The Soul of a Bishop (1917), Gouverneur Morris' < i> his daughter (1919), Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (1920), and Booth Tarkington Gentle Julia (1922)). He also publishes his own collection of pictures, including Listening in the Whittington Family , Fictional Women , All Arrogance, Honeymoon , Messages from Mars , and In Natural Beauty .
Work as animator
As an early contributor to the animated film (Grant, p.49), Gilbert worked for John R. Bray in 1915-16 on the production of a series of shadow dramas called Silhouette Fantasies . These Art Nouveau-style films, created by combining silhouettes filmed with pen and ink components, are a serious interpretation of Greek myth (Crafton 1993, p.Ã, 865; Bachman 2002, pp.Ã, 261-262).
Camouflage service
During World War I, Gilbert served as a camouflage artist for the US Sailorship Council, as well as other famous artists and illustrators, including McClelland Barclay, William MacKay, and Henry Reuterdahl (Behrens 2009). Like them, it also illustrates posters for American war programs such as Liberty Bonds (or Liberty Loans).
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Throughout his life (and still today), Gilbert is so identified with his image of All Is Vanity that he is sometimes mistakenly credited with two other popular double-drawing artworks. Gossip: And the Devil There , and Social Donors , both apparently created by another illustrator at the same time period, George A. Wotherspoon.
Gilbert continued to live in New York for the rest of his life, but he often spent his summers on Monegan Island in Maine. He died in New York because of pneumonia at the age of 55 years.
See also
- Bray Productions
- Camouflage
- William MacKay
- Optical Illusions
- Active Retro
- United States Shipping Board
References
Source
- Ecclesiastes 1 of The Holy Bible.
- Bachman, Gregg, and Thomas J. Slater, eds., American Silent Film: Finding Marginal Sound . Carbondale: South Illinois University, 2002, pp.Ã, 261-262.
- "Charles Allan Gilbert" in John W. Leonard, ed., Who's Who in America . Vol 7, 1913, p.Ã, 800.
- Crafton, Donald, Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928 . University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- "'Jury's Day' Famous Juror For The American Type" in New York Times , December 7, 1913, p. SM5.
- Grant, John, Master of Animation . New York: Watson Guptil, 2001.
- "Charles Allen [sic] Gilbert" at Sandlot Science
- "US Shipping Board" at Roy R. Behrens, Camoupedia: A Summary of Research on Art, Architecture, and Camouflage . Dysart, Iowa: Bobolink Books, 2009.
External links
- Media related to Charles Allan Gilbert on Wikimedia Commons
- The work of C. Allan Gilbert at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles Allan Gilbert in the Internet Archive
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