Drawing from Ozu: an intermedial consideration on clear line illustrations based on film frames

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2024

Authors

Barros, David Pinho (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Adaptation and illustration: new cartographies

Pages: 139-151

ISBN: 978-3-031-32133-7 (hbk); 978-3-031-32136-8 (pbk)

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-32134-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Springer

Other information

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32134-4_7

Abstract (EN): Although examples of paintings and drawings based on film frames abound in the history of illustration, notably in the field of poster production, a recent trend has offered new ontological challenges to intermedial theory. In fact, in recent years several illustrators have produced decontextualized interpretations of film frames, which are commercialised with total independence from the original theatrical marketing endeavour of the films and are sold as autonomous art pieces. The work of one particular filmmaker has been consistently adapted into illustration throughout the last decade: Japanese director Yasujirô Ozu, known, among other stylistic idiosyncrasies, for his obsession with narrative and compositional economy, as well as for his perfectionist approach to framing. This chapter looks at how the graphic artists Adrian Tomine, Bren Luke, and Jochen Gerner propose a unique look on the Japanese director’s compositional style. It shows that their approach seems to be absolutely unanimous as to the detection and use of certain characteristics of the filmmaker’s oeuvre which they try to import, and which gives origin to a formal proximity of all three to clear line aesthetics.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific