Comparing Jules Cheret And Will H. Bradley's Art

In this essay I will be discussing French artist Jules Cheret’s art work: La Loie Fuller (1893, figure 2.3) and American artist Will H. Bradley’s art work: The Chap Book, Thanksgiving no. (1895, figure 2.24) in a compare and contrast exercise, looking at both the similarities but also what makes these two works very different. The art works are both dated by the end of the nineteenth century. Around the same time, the Industrial Revolution brought a huge boost productivity, but also changed the social structure in Europe. Some artists start interest in finding a new artistic vocabulary that could best express the industrial world in which they lived. Therefore, an artistic movement called Art Nouveau has started in around 1890 to1910. It turned Western Classicism into Modernism. Jules Cheret and Will H. Bradley’s art
(1895, figure 2.24) are come from different artist and different country, they still have much in common. First and foremost, Jules Cheret and Will H. Bradley are both well know as master of poster design during the Art Nouveau period. Therefore, most of their works have a same purpose is to served the needs of commerce and industry. Jules Cheret had designed over nine hundred posters for performers, products, and theatres. His art work La Loie Fuller (1893, figure 2.3) is one of the commission from the theatres. In common, Will H. Bradley’s Thanksgiving poster is also a commission that he accepted from a literary magazine named The Chap Book. Besides, the art of Japanese woodblock prints had enormous implications on graphic designers by the later nineteenth century. Inevitably, Cheret and Bradley have been affected too. For instance, La Loie Fuller (1893, figure 2.3) and The Chap Book, Thanksgiving no. (1895, figure 2.24) are both displays some Japanese style. They dominated by large central figures, simplified backgrounds, and the flat colour and crisp linear