EDWARD GOREY
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Printed Pictures. Looking at artists who use printing processes to make illustrations with a similar tone of voice or subject.
Edward Gorey's work belongs to the same twisted land as Poe's. Although Gorey worked decades after Poe, his illustrations were retrospective and reminiscent of Edwardian/Victorian/American Romanticism. His Gothic imagery discusses similar themes of death, the afterlife and spirits; his dark, macabre tone echoes Poe's melancholy tales.
I find Gorey's illustrations spooky and surreal, the same kind of atmospheric mood that I'm intending to portray within my Poe images.
Publications
combining his dark illustrations with humour and wit. Enigmatic, horrific tone of voice. Controversial audience: for children or not?! Sensitivity, censorship.
Gorey's process consisted of etching
Scratchy, rough and sharp images
monotone
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