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A review by chadleyc
Rebus by James Jean
5.0
James Jean is an artist I love. His work is beautiful, scary, surreal, imaginative, and complex. This book chronicles his artistic life from the years 2001 to 2011.
Jean's artwork has a fluidity to it. Figures curve and bend in surreal landscapes. In Jean's artistic universe characters often lack facial features or limbs, fanciful animals and plants abound, and strange situations are commonplace.
Jean's work for Prada is included in the book and it's fascinating to see how his unique vision works as commercial art.
I could spend months looking at this book and trying to figure out James Jean's personal worldview. I don't know I necessarily WANT to understand his worldview, but his art definitely reflects a singular vision.
Jean's artwork has a fluidity to it. Figures curve and bend in surreal landscapes. In Jean's artistic universe characters often lack facial features or limbs, fanciful animals and plants abound, and strange situations are commonplace.
Jean's work for Prada is included in the book and it's fascinating to see how his unique vision works as commercial art.
I could spend months looking at this book and trying to figure out James Jean's personal worldview. I don't know I necessarily WANT to understand his worldview, but his art definitely reflects a singular vision.