The New Yorker Cover: “Blown Away,” by Tomer Hanuka.
“The cover for this year’s Spring Style Issue is the fourth by Tomer Hanuka, an Israeli artist known for his striking use of color.
Q: We like the gestural quality of the woman’s pose. How does body language factor into making an image like this?
“I start with a gesture, just a line, and build a story around it. There are so many rules about drawing anatomy, and sometimes you need to break all of them to make a pose work. An image like this begins with a realistic sketch of a body, but in the end I want the physicality to disappear. I want the reader to be left only with an idea or a feeling.”
If I lived in the States, I would frame each single one of those covers. This is pure genius, but the artist doesn’t leave us with ‘just an idea’. It still is a gorgeous image of a woman – with an idea! 🙂
So agree. As he said: “I want the reader to be left with an idea or a feeling.” And he did an incredible job doing so for me.
I couldn’t possibly put it in better words. I have a beautiful empty wooden picture frame in the basement…..
The lightness and whimsy of this image are particularly appealing at the moment…. gifted guy.
sure is….
So pleasing when yearning for a glimmer of this feeling!
so agree…
we need this happy, breezy feeling about now –
oh, we do. we sure do.
Ah yes. Dandelion wishes blowin’ in the wind!
Brilliant!
It is!
We walked along the creek earlier…the bright yellow buttercups are blooming in mass…it might snow tonight and tomorrow morning…My sisters have snow in their areas…they live in a different state then me and they rarely get snow…
beautiful!
This how we need to feel
Yes…..
I like Tomer Hanuka cover illustration and his words…“I start with a gesture, just a line, and build a story around it” When I was creative about 3 years ago I used to randomly write down words, or come up with a phrase, or a sentence and build paragraphs, sometimes longer thoughts, kinda like a short story….
And I have my copy in hand!