Comments on: The art of Bob Pepper http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:17:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Arik Roper's Mind Altering Art and Illustrations | Optimum Wound http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-127657 Arik Roper's Mind Altering Art and Illustrations | Optimum Wound Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:12:53 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-127657 [...] a few: Edmund Dulac, Ivan Bilibin, Augustus Knapp, Gustave Dore, Theodor Kittelsen, Heath Robinson, Robert Pepper, Richard Corben, Frazetta, Berni Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Ian Miler, Julek Heller, Rodney Matthews, [...] [...] a few: Edmund Dulac, Ivan Bilibin, Augustus Knapp, Gustave Dore, Theodor Kittelsen, Heath Robinson, Robert Pepper, Richard Corben, Frazetta, Berni Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Ian Miler, Julek Heller, Rodney Matthews, [...]

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-114487 John Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:14:59 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-114487 Hi Albert. I'm not qualified to offer any advice on the value of artworks. You'd have to ask a gallery owner or try browsing some of the many auction sites such as <a href="http://www.artnet.com/" rel="nofollow">Artnet.com</a> to find details of earlier sales. Hi Albert. I’m not qualified to offer any advice on the value of artworks. You’d have to ask a gallery owner or try browsing some of the many auction sites such as Artnet.com to find details of earlier sales.

]]> By: albert fodor http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-114467 albert fodor Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:25:40 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-114467 I have an oil painting , i believe is bob pepper art work. The name is Autumn Grove. What's the value of the painting? thank you. I have an oil painting , i believe is bob pepper art work. The name is Autumn Grove. What’s the value of the painting? thank you.

]]> By: Core Studio: Image / Fall 2008 » Molly’s type as image http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-83081 Core Studio: Image / Fall 2008 » Molly’s type as image Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:43:17 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-83081 [...] I was very hard-pressed to make my perfect text-excerpt decision; and in the end I chose the less-meaningful piece of text, but a more exciting visual composition. I chose the lyrically stunning Beatles hit, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” and focused mainly on the first stanza, Picture yourself in a boat on a river?/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly?/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes??/Cellophane flowers of yellow and green?/Towering over your head?/Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes/And she’s gone The text to me is dreamy, wistful, optimistic, playful and charming. The imagery is powerful and demands vibrant colors, textures, and patterns. The voice of the text is almost of a father telling his daughter a bedtime lullaby, a myth almost, or a legend, about the far-away wonderland. It almost reduces the listener to a more infantile and lighthearted state, bringing out our inner child. For me the message of the text is about everyone’s perfect place, their dream location and fantasy. When the words begin its almost hypnotic, and one is lulled into the river and the song. Optimistically I will be able to visually re-create this pied-piper-esque magnetic energy; to re-create Lennon’s fantastical world by simply creating a tangible image of the image that is already in the highly descriptive text. Truly this should be easy work, my direction is directed by the words. I would like to use cellophane for the flowers, and paste “diamonds” into the sky. I like to combine using text normally with using text as image/shapes, and the first line “picture yourself in a boat on a river” I feel should be text floating and smooth, running in the river towards the dreamland. It will be both tactile and digital, tactile for mediums such as crystal jewels and cellophane, gold foil or fabrics, then photos of tangerines and photos of water layered with cartoon images/objects. The important aspects to have are the over-all flowing and singsong happy attitude—which I will re-create with bright colors and many mediums/textures—while creating an image or perspective of the utopia. I want to use parts of the text but certainly not all of it, highlighting the important statements first. The manner in which the words are sung is also crucial, as the lilting method I will attempt to follow on the paper like a stepping path. First and foremost, to illustrate the song is simply to close your eyes and see what the lyrics themselves draw out. In my mind this creates a stunning and hazy wonderland, reminisce of Willy Wonka or surrealist paintings. Particularly I noticed the work of the surrealist Roberto Matta, who began with simpler paintings but developed an interesting style of imagery creating a scene that was loosely connected but excelled as a compositional environment, such as his “Here, sire fire, eat I.” http://www.worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/O0026388.html . Because the Beatles did the song, I enjoyed looking at the LOVE webpage (the Beatles musical special/live dance performance) http://www.mirage.com/entertainment/love.aspx because it shows graphic design work that has been done by others attempting to display the essentials of the Beatles and their work. I like the bright colors, the retro feel, and curving letters. To understand the time better I looked at some of the work of Bob Pepper, who designed album covers in the Beatles generation. His work showed me the typographic tendencies and characteristics of this song’s time period, the illustration-heavy work, and usage of bright colors. http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/ [...] [...] I was very hard-pressed to make my perfect text-excerpt decision; and in the end I chose the less-meaningful piece of text, but a more exciting visual composition. I chose the lyrically stunning Beatles hit, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” and focused mainly on the first stanza, Picture yourself in a boat on a river?/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly?/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes??/Cellophane flowers of yellow and green?/Towering over your head?/Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes/And she’s gone The text to me is dreamy, wistful, optimistic, playful and charming. The imagery is powerful and demands vibrant colors, textures, and patterns. The voice of the text is almost of a father telling his daughter a bedtime lullaby, a myth almost, or a legend, about the far-away wonderland. It almost reduces the listener to a more infantile and lighthearted state, bringing out our inner child. For me the message of the text is about everyone’s perfect place, their dream location and fantasy. When the words begin its almost hypnotic, and one is lulled into the river and the song. Optimistically I will be able to visually re-create this pied-piper-esque magnetic energy; to re-create Lennon’s fantastical world by simply creating a tangible image of the image that is already in the highly descriptive text. Truly this should be easy work, my direction is directed by the words. I would like to use cellophane for the flowers, and paste “diamonds” into the sky. I like to combine using text normally with using text as image/shapes, and the first line “picture yourself in a boat on a river” I feel should be text floating and smooth, running in the river towards the dreamland. It will be both tactile and digital, tactile for mediums such as crystal jewels and cellophane, gold foil or fabrics, then photos of tangerines and photos of water layered with cartoon images/objects. The important aspects to have are the over-all flowing and singsong happy attitude—which I will re-create with bright colors and many mediums/textures—while creating an image or perspective of the utopia. I want to use parts of the text but certainly not all of it, highlighting the important statements first. The manner in which the words are sung is also crucial, as the lilting method I will attempt to follow on the paper like a stepping path. First and foremost, to illustrate the song is simply to close your eyes and see what the lyrics themselves draw out. In my mind this creates a stunning and hazy wonderland, reminisce of Willy Wonka or surrealist paintings. Particularly I noticed the work of the surrealist Roberto Matta, who began with simpler paintings but developed an interesting style of imagery creating a scene that was loosely connected but excelled as a compositional environment, such as his “Here, sire fire, eat I.” http://www.worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/O0026388.html . Because the Beatles did the song, I enjoyed looking at the LOVE webpage (the Beatles musical special/live dance performance) http://www.mirage.com/entertainment/love.aspx because it shows graphic design work that has been done by others attempting to display the essentials of the Beatles and their work. I like the bright colors, the retro feel, and curving letters. To understand the time better I looked at some of the work of Bob Pepper, who designed album covers in the Beatles generation. His work showed me the typographic tendencies and characteristics of this song’s time period, the illustration-heavy work, and usage of bright colors. http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/ [...]

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-50684 John Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:46 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-50684 Hi Toni. I'd guess Bob Pepper was living in CA during the Sixties seeing as he was working for LA-based record companies so there's a chance your picture may be one of his. I've scanned the <a href="http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/pepper_voices.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">George Crumb cover art</a> at a larger size which means people can now see his signature on the artwork. I'd suggest you look to see if there's a similar signature on your painting. Hi Toni. I’d guess Bob Pepper was living in CA during the Sixties seeing as he was working for LA-based record companies so there’s a chance your picture may be one of his.

I’ve scanned the George Crumb cover art at a larger size which means people can now see his signature on the artwork. I’d suggest you look to see if there’s a similar signature on your painting.

]]> By: Toni DeSorcy http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-50681 Toni DeSorcy Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:08:09 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-50681 I have an oil painting done by Bob Pepper from the 60's that was bought at an art show in Sasalitos California. It won a blue ribbon, its name is "Indian Summer". I am trying to figure out if this is the same Bob Pepper? I have an oil painting done by Bob Pepper from the 60’s that was bought at an art show in Sasalitos California. It won a blue ribbon, its name is “Indian Summer”. I am trying to figure out if this is the same Bob Pepper?

]]> By: Quid plura? | "Everybody's coming, leave your body at the door..." http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-49984 Quid plura? | "Everybody's coming, leave your body at the door..." Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:05:58 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-49984 [...] Sure, Orson Welles was terrific as Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, but few remember his triumphant turn as the pitchman for the electronic fantasy board game “Dark Tower.” You can play “Dark Tower” online and enjoy game artwork by Bob Pepper, who’s known for his trippy sci-fi book covers. [...] [...] Sure, Orson Welles was terrific as Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, but few remember his triumphant turn as the pitchman for the electronic fantasy board game “Dark Tower.” You can play “Dark Tower” online and enjoy game artwork by Bob Pepper, who’s known for his trippy sci-fi book covers. [...]

]]> By: Marco Milone http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-48665 Marco Milone Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:54:54 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-48665 His use of color remind me Cubism. His use of color remind me Cubism.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-43145 John Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:40:04 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-43145 Thanks Josh, that's an excellent selection of covers you've got there. The ones here were about all I could find so it's good to see what else he was doing. I really like his more symbolic approach to illustration, he was very inventive. Thanks Josh, that’s an excellent selection of covers you’ve got there. The ones here were about all I could find so it’s good to see what else he was doing. I really like his more symbolic approach to illustration, he was very inventive.

]]> By: Josh Burggraf http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-43081 Josh Burggraf Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:33:59 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-43081 Hello For a while last year i searched around on the internet trying to find images of Bob Pepper's artwork. I wound up buying several of his covers on ebay and ive since posted them to a flicker account. You seemed to have found quite a few high quality images, thought you might want to see some more. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/sets/72157603401490039/ Hello

For a while last year i searched around on the internet trying to find images of Bob Pepper’s artwork. I wound up buying several of his covers on ebay and ive since posted them to a flicker account. You seemed to have found quite a few high quality images, thought you might want to see some more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21631299@N07/sets/72157603401490039/

]]> By: Dawid Michalczyk http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/07/12/the-art-of-bob-pepper/comment-page-1/#comment-27098 Dawid Michalczyk Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:25:24 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2156#comment-27098 I like his style. Much of it reminds me of the 60's hippie culture. I like his style. Much of it reminds me of the 60’s hippie culture.

]]>