Athens, Ga.
– The Lamar Dodd School of Art will present Peter de Seve as the speaker at the
seventh annual Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture on Fri. Jan. 27
in Room 101 of the Student
Learning Center
at 5:30 pm. The lecture is free and is open to the public.
The Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Artist Series brings
nationally known illustrators to the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The Davis Artist
reflects the spirit of innovation and professionalism shown in Davis’ own work and career.
Davis has been one of America’s
best-known illustrators for nearly half a century. Although he may be most
associated with his work for the UGA Athletic Association, he was one of the
original staff artists for Mad Magazine 40 years ago and is the only member of
the original staff who still contributes to the magazine. Davis attended UGA in the early 1950s.
Peter de Seve was born in 1959, and works in an idiom that
is a happy blending between old and new. His artistic heroes include Arthur
Burdett Frost, Heinrich Kley and Winsor McCay, and while those influences are
embedded in his work, there are also references to D.C. Comics, Creepy, Eerie
and even the drawing style of Frank Frazetta.
De Seve's subjects, however, are very contemporary,
particularly his delightful covers for The New Yorker, and it is the
application of style to his ideas that distinguishes him as an artist. His
talents in this direction have taken him to the west coast for assignments from
Dreamworks and Disney Studios to conceptualize animation characters in a
free-wheeling series of drawings. Films worked on have included The Hunchback
of Notre Dame, Prince of Egypt, Academy Award nominated films A Bug's Life and Ice
Age, and the Oscar-winning Monsters, Inc.
While de Seve also has many magazine clients, including Time,
Newsweek, The New York Times Book Review and Forbes magazines, he enjoys the
challenge of working in other areas as well. Some of his recent projects have
included poster designs for the hit shows Candide, A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum and Noises Off.
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