Background Art Legends - Edward Hopper & Classic Disney

 

Let's talk more pleasing scenery.

I'll be going through painters and cartoonist background artists. Shout out to Edward Hopper for these amazing and extraordinary paintings made a near century ago. He was a realistic visual genius. 

No one there but still is perfectly interesting in on its own. He made some of the best art in human history. The colors have a sense of warmth to them.

Edward Hopper's paintings are what I describe as a breather through experience. They aren't grabbing your attention by some touch of comedy, communication or insanity. It's genuinely peaceful and relaxing.

His paintings are not too abstract or unrealistic either. They feel like their actual places, yet they have a different style to them that fits the atmosphere well. 

This house looks minimalistic but it's a different type of minimalism. It isn't trying to be fresh and extremely polished, it doesn't have that typical square shaped feel. The colors all feel organic yet subtle to the actual palette of the painting. 

This one of my favorite paintings of all time. The sky looks BEAUTIFUL. The road is clear and the green grass is environmental to the highest degree. Look at those houses, the power lines. This is what my state of life looks like and just because of that it's a masterpiece. 

Here's some more infamously heavenly art from the true artist himself.  

Now onto the cartoons. This has more of an abstract, simplistic feel but this has way more nostalgic and charming color to it than anything that came afterward. 

This is from a Donald Duck cartoon titled Rugged Bear (1953), this has an amazing start with some yellow, beige and greens perfectly fitting the style of the forest. 

Ray Huffine made these backgrounds. I'm going to have to start researching alot of the background painters starting along with Disney and Warner Bros.

Most people love the yellowish backgrounds including myself. Easter Yeggs, Robin Hood Daffy are other examples that have similar backgrounds to this particular cartoon.

While I'm not heavily drawn to this era of Disney shorts, it's cool to see that the legendary animators and staff still somewhat care about what they're creating since to about the 60s, animation was slowly reaching to a darker age. 

I need to know who did these backgrounds with the owl in Bambi.  

Whoever did the One Hundred and One Dalmatians scenery needs to have more recognition. This is by far Disney's best looking movie. 

The people credited for the backgrounds are Walt Peregoy, Al Dempster, Ralph Hulett, Anthony Rizzo and Bill Layne. Seriously, incredible work fellas. 

I'll do a second parter sometime very soon. But for now hopefully you find these interesting and remember stay out of A.I.