Kirby/tomb slab of K'inich Janaab' Pakal:
Kirby/Giovanni Battista Gaulli:
Kirby/Giovanni Battista Piranesi:
Kirby/John Martin:
Kirby/Pablo Picasso:
Kirby/Lyubov Popova:
Kirby/Aleksandr Rodchenko:
Kirby/Hannah Hoch:
Kirby/Jackson Pollock:
Kirby/Franz Kline 1:
Kirby/Franz Kline 2:
Kirby/Roy Lichtenstein 1:
Kirby/Roy Lichtenstein 2:
Kirby/Roy Lichtenstein 3:
Kirby/Hubble:
Woah, where is that Rodchenko/Hoch comparision one from?
ReplyDeleteIt's the original art for a collage in Spirit World #1, which was published in b&w: http://spliffington.tumblr.com/post/1517379436/via-spirit-world-1-collage-by-jack-kirby
ReplyDeleteThere's a picture of it framed in the comments thread here: http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/365fourth/2010/10/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-134-2/
ReplyDeleteI meant to put in all the credits, but then I knew that if I tried to do that, I'd never get around to posting this. I've been sitting on it in draft form for a good while as it is.
When I see the image you've nicely linked with Popova, I am usually reminded of some of Duchamp's "disques avec spirals," which he worked into his only film ANEMIC CINEMA as well. And I was going to ask about the same image as Derik -- I've never seen that color version of that page.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrei, for telling it like it is. When is NASA finally paying Kirby's due royalties?
ReplyDeleteSplendid!
ReplyDeletethis is so terrific - visual language across centuries and decades -thanks, Andrei.
ReplyDeleteI give the edge to Kirby's caption on the "TAKTA-TAKTA" piece.
ReplyDeleteA few more to search.
http://www.whatifkirby.com/gallery/comic-art-listings/spirit-world-collage-issue-1-pages-2-3
http://www.whatifkirby.com/gallery/comic-art-listings/supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen-issue-137-pages-7-8
http://www.whatifkirby.com/gallery/comic-art-listings/new-gods-issue-5-page-1
It doesn't really matter for your purposes here, but all of Lichtenstein's stuff (except for your third example) is a direct lift from hard working comic book contemporaries of Kirby's.
ReplyDeleteReplying to Thomass, many moons later: yes, but there my point was that Kirby was almost certainly intentionally swiping back, so to speak, re-appropriating Lichtenstein for the comics. I gave a long talk on this at San Diego last summer, to be published soon.
ReplyDeleteCan we get a Kirby/Leger, a Kirby/De Chirico, an early Kirby/Schiele?
ReplyDeleteMost excellent - brightened up my Monday morning, thanks...(-:
ReplyDeleteRobert and Dave--you've both commented in the last twenty-four hours. Is that because this post was linked to somewhere?
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