Cartoons and Crowds - part 2

Browsing through his collection of cartoon books, Jean-Marie found  some other cartoonists we can link with crowds.

■ The Frenchman Sempé  has produced a number of drawings of crowds. But for him the important thing is not always in the mass of people, but often in the singularity of a single character.

Sempé : Rien n’est simple (Denoël, Paris 1962)

Sempé: Women and Children First! (Perpetua, London 1962)

■ The German artist Hans-Georg Rauch took advantage of crowds by using them as a material.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg_Rauch
http://rogallery.com/Rauch/Rauch-bio.html
http://www.hans-georg-rauch.de/espresso/index.html

Rauch : Dessins à regarder de près (Planète, Paris 1969)

Rauch : Rauchzeichen (Nebelspalter, Rorschach 1969)

Rauch : La majorité silencieuse (Hachette, Paris 1974)

Rauch : H. G. Rauch. Dessins. L’œuvre gravé / Zeichnungen. Das grafische Werk / Drawings. The Graphic Works (Les Presses de la Connaissance, Paris 1976) This book is a catalogue of exhibitions that took place in Bruxelles, New York, Ottawa, Boston, San Francisco, Montreal, Türbingen, Gent, Stockholm, Colmar Bourges, Oslo, Bochum, Osnabrück, Baden-Baden, Houston, Paris

■ About Dubout, we can say that from the 20's he produced many drawings showing accumulations of objects or characters.

Dubout : Dubout. 200 dessins (Michèle Trinckvel, Paris 1974)

 He set a unique record with his drawing showing the siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628). Knowing there were 5000 besiegers, he decided to keep strictly to this number. To find out how far he was completing his composition, he wrote down on a blackboard the number of characters terminated.

■ Another example is the work of Jacques Lerouge (http://jacques.lerouge.free.fr/)

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Cartoons and Crowds - part 1

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Jacques Lerouge
Hans-Georg Rauch
Albert Dubout
Jean-Jacques Sempé