Junior Illustration II show in the Illustration Gallery

On view until March 9th.

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The images shown in that exhibition correspond to the following projects:

Top > Short narrative projects developed from sentences that incorporate the word "Eye".

5 images compose each project : 4 final sketches and, at least, one final illustration. Selected sentences are incorporated to each image 

Bottom > Project of murals for the Guinean school Aruna Embalo, Quelele, Guinea-Bissau.

Resources:

- Cyclop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops

Member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed"

- Polyphemus (Odyssey – Book 9): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphemus

- Un chien Andalou by Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali: http://www.zappinternet.com/video/danPvuMpaX/Un-chien-Andalou-1928

+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou

- Eyes without a face by Georges Franju, 1960: http://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Without_a_Face

Ferme les yeux: http://www.claudiaranucci.com/2009/09/10/hello-world/

> " If you look at the forest, it will be out of you. If closed eyes you listen, you will be part of it"

- Herve Tullet: http://www.herve-tullet.com/

J’ai les yeux fermes.

+  http://www.herve-tullet.com/fr/boite-10/Le-jeu-des-yeux.html

- Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young (Indian tale).

In the story seven little mice each examine a different part of the elephant and decide they know what the object is. However, it isn’t until the seventh mouse runs across, around, up, and down – over the entire elephant and reveals its true identity. The story ends with the moral: “Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.”

- The big eyes By Jane Cabrera, UK: http://jane-cabrera-illustrator.blogspot.com/

- The boy with two eyes by Ulises Wensell and J.L. Garcia Sanchez.

Synopsis: People with only one eye live in a similar place to earth.

At the amazement of all, a child was born with two eyes. Although society considers him a misfit, the young boy is gradually accepted because of his special gift; he can se colors and tells what he sees.

http://bib.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/p300/01482630878920717460035/index.htm

More images: http://www.bookstopliterary.com/img/illustrators/Wensell/UWENSELLselected.pdf

- The rape, painting by Rene Magritte, Belgium: http://www.all-art.org/art_20th_century/magritte1.html

This should have been the portrait of a young girl, pretty likely, corresponding to a Western archetype of beauty, as blonde as the Virgin Mary, as the platinum blondes of Hollywood cinema. But, as said Sigmund Freud. there has been a "transfer".

- The False Mirror, painting by Magritte.