[HN Gopher] Norman Rockwell and the golden age of classic food i...
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       Norman Rockwell and the golden age of classic food illustration
       (2019)
        
       Author : SongofEarth
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2022-09-26 12:55 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (phoode.com)
        
       | gwbas1c wrote:
       | (Joke) A lot of those ads are very corny.
        
       | matsemann wrote:
       | Not an American, but seen some of these pictures before. I
       | thought most of them actually were photographs, and that it was
       | just the printing and later scanning of them giving them some of
       | the artifacts.
        
         | LegitShady wrote:
         | For me a lot of the magic of Rockwell is his ability to do
         | storytelling in a single frame, and then the quality of his
         | depictions. The people's expressions or posing can almost be
         | cartoony at times, but its so well done it works.
        
       | yboris wrote:
       | This year is the golden age for Norman Rockwell - getting
       | summoned from beyond the grave to live on through ML models:
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       | https://twitter.com/ai_curio_bot/status/1573845821723918337
        
         | LegitShady wrote:
         | I'd call this at best cultural kitsch. It doesn't look like the
         | painting style or pose decisions/storytelling of rockwell at
         | all.
        
         | lm28469 wrote:
         | https://nitter.net/ai_curio_bot/status/1573845821723918337
        
       | martyvis wrote:
       | Nice walk through illustration. One thing that is an error in
       | beginning of the article is to say full colour printing was
       | achieved using red, green and blue. While those primary colours
       | work for additive processes such as on projectors or LCD screens,
       | subtractive methods using ink will need cyan, magenta and yellow
       | pigments (and usually add black)
        
         | magic_hamster wrote:
         | This also baffled me. Did the author mean CMYK?
        
           | egypturnash wrote:
           | "the author did cursory research, at best, into the minutae
           | of printing, and got it wrong" is a strong possibility.
        
         | Daub wrote:
         | Correct. Cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK) is in fact a
         | derivative of the painter's color space red, yellow, blue
         | (RYB).
         | 
         | But the article is right in that printing technologies heralded
         | a dam burst of classic illustrators: the so called golden age.
         | An illustrator could hand to a printer pretty much anything: a
         | water Colour, oils painting, gauche painting etc. Photo
         | lithography could convert it all to high quality Colour
         | printing plates. Prior to that an illustration had to be
         | specific to the technology: stone lithography, etching, screen
         | printing etc. essentially limiting.
        
       | dekhn wrote:
       | Some of Rockwell's illustrations are close to looking like real
       | life photos.
        
         | gwbas1c wrote:
         | Because he started by staging photographs, and then painting
         | from the photos: https://www.nrm.org/2009/10/norman-rockwell-
         | behind-the-camer....
        
           | dekhn wrote:
           | Yep, I've been to the Norman Rockwell museum and read through
           | his books. There's a great image of him posing for the native
           | american falling off the cliff in the lower left
           | (https://www.flickr.com/photos/80651083@N00/3638416661)
        
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