Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle

Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle

Graphic but mystical, vibrant yet enigmatic, the work of American artist Eyvind Earle is a treasure trove of subtle and shimmering contradictions. From fanciful backgrounds for Disney classics such asÂ Sleeping BeautyÂ to bold experiments in multimedia art, from ambitious commercial animations to lush and otherworldly oil landscapes, Earle's oeuvre never fails to please the eye and engage the imagination. And here, collected inÂ Awaking Beautyâ€”the official catalog for the 2017 Walt Disney Family Museum exhibition of the same nameâ€”is a definitive exploration of his life's full work.

Born in New York City in 1916, Earle showed early talent, hosting his first solo exhibition at the age of fourteen. After traveling in Mexico and Europe as a teenager, he bicycled across the United States, painting watercolors to pay his way. In the late 1930s, he began designing Christmas cardsâ€”which have sold more than 300 million copies over the yearsâ€”while continuing to exhibit his fine art.

Earle's transformative moment, however, came in 1951, when he was hired at The Walt Disney Studios as a background painter. Again, he proved a quick study, lending his talents to the Academy Award-winning shortÂ Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom,Â beloved full-length featureÂ Sleeping Beauty,Â Â and many other time-honored Disney animated films.

After his tenure at Disney ended in 1958, Earle turned his attention to commercial animation and advertising, then returned ot fine art full-time in 1966. Here, in the last three decades of his life, Earle created an immense and impressively varied body of work. He became an expert at the silkscreen-printing process known as serigraphy, a painstaking art form that could require up to 200 individual screens. He also created dozens of graphic and arresting scratchboardsâ€”engravings carved into boards primed with white clay and black inkâ€”for his autobiography,Â Horizon Bound on a Bicycle. In addition to his multimedia experiments, Earle painted dazzling oil works of the natural world, capturing the rolling hills, lacy and voluminous trees, and crashing blue waves of California in a nearly transcendental light. A moving and lyrical writer, he often accompanied his mesmerizing landscapes with equally meditative and intriguing poems.

After a long and esteemed career, Earle passed away in 2000 in Carmel-y-the-Sea, California, leaving behind a formidable legacy in animation and fine art. Today, his work is in the permanent collections of several prominent museums (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), while his memory continues to inspire new generations of aspiring creatives around the globe.
Country USA
Brand Weldon Owen
Manufacturer Weldon Owen
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781681882710
ReleaseDate 2017-08-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681882710

Country	USA
Brand	Weldon Owen
Manufacturer	Weldon Owen
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781681882710
ReleaseDate	2017-08-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781681882710

Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle

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