The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: A couple under an umbrella on a bridge.
Sharp-eyed readers might note that this is the third cover out of the last four employing one-point perspective (da Vinci’s’s Last Supper is perhaps the best example of art using one-point). In all, five one-pointers have appeared within the past seven months:
The Cartoonists:
The Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists — including Barry Blitt who has a “Sketchbook” — plus the three Cartoon Caption Contest contributors. No duos, that we know of. One newbie, Glynnis Fawkes, who is the 2nd newbie of the year, and the 129th brought into the cartoonist stadium under cartoon editor, Emma Allen’s watch, begun in the Spring of 2017. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist (my first New Yorker cartoon, under my name, appeared in April of 1978).
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: Robert Leighton, Eddie Ward, J.C. Duffy.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Why a Rea Irvin Talk Watch? Read here.
Thanks for the short precise lesson on one-point perspective – and the link to the Last Supper to remind me that Leonardo was a genius.