![]() Attending graduate school in New York City, Bean focused on children's-book illustration and developed a portfolio to show to publishers. During the day, he helped transform artworks-sometimes his own-into cross-stitch patterns, while at night he worked on his own illustrations. As a senior, he wrote an essay exploring form in artworks from ancient Greece to modern times.Īfter graduating with a degree in fine arts illustration from Pennsylvania Messiah College, Bean worked as staff artist for a company that created craft and paint-by-number patterns. During high school, Bean took weekly drawing classes with Myron Barnstone of Barnstone Studios, where he studied basic techniques, practiced them over and over, and explored how great artists incorporated them into their works. "I grew up with my mom reading me Virginia Lee Burton books and later I discovered Wanda Gag," he told Shannon Maughan in Publishers Weekly, referring to the author-illustrators of the childhood classics Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and Millions of Cats respectively. He had an interest in art and illustrated books from a young age. Jonathan Bean grew up in Pennsylvania, the second of four children who were all homeschooled by their parents. ![]() Wendy Orr, Mokie and Bik Go to Sea, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2008. Lynne Jonell, Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2008. Lauren Thompson, The Apple Pie That Papa Baked, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2007. Wendy Orr, Mokie and Bik, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2007. Lynne Jonell, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2007. ![]() Our House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2009. Writings SELF-ILLUSTRATEDĪt Night, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2007. Awards, Honorsīoston Globe/Horn Book Award for best picture book, 2008, and Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book designation, Cooperative Children's Book Center, both 2008, both for At Night Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, New York Public Library/Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, 2008, for The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson. Messiah College, Grantham, PA, adjunct instructor in art, 2008. Dimensions, Reading, PA, staff artist illustrator for New York Times and Cricket magazine. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, bird watching, landscape drawing. Education: Messiah College (PA), B.A., 2001 School of Visual Arts ( New York, NY), M.F.A., 2005. And the way it reflects Chicago’s inner city skyline makes it a supremely contextual artwork.Born Mason of John and Pauline Bean. I saw people looking at their reflections while doing head stands or stroking its shiny surface. ![]() It is a far more interactive piece and practically begs you to take a selfie next to it. Joan and I also visited the Cloud Gate sculpture (better known as “The Bean”) by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park and found it equally engaging for a different set of reasons. I liked the recursive irony (however amateurish) of applying Picasso’s approach to Picasso’s sculpture and called the little drawing “Watercolorist’s Revenge” And, the image created by multiple viewpoints was just what Picasso’s cubism was all about. Anyway, back home I assessed the sketches and found that by combining them, I could create a composition that reflected my response to the monument. One thing about sketching it helps you appreciate what you are looking at. I tried several angles, but none of them captured the dynamic three dimensionality of the sculpture. Other art critics have opined that it was modeled after an Afghan hound who was owned by one of Picasso’s friends.Īnyway, I found the sculpture a knockout, and decided to sketch it. On a recent visit to Chicago, actually my first visit to Chicago since I was a kid, I made a special trip to see Picasso’s work titled “Monumental Sculpture” – which looks like a horse but may actually have been inspired by a 19 year old French girl with a long neck who wore her hair a high ponytail whom Picasso employed as a model. ![]()
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