An amazing structure said to look like a floating crystal cloud of stainless steel and glass designed by an Austrian group, Coop Himmelbleau.
Inside an equally astonishing experience to wander through
The perfect setting for the other wordly drawings of Hugo Pratt.
The display was a dramatic mixup of ethnographic objects and his blown-up cartoons.
You're immediately drawn in.
For once wall notes were in English, French and Italian. Pratt was born in Venice, spent early years in Africa and lived in London, Argentina, Brazil, Paris, Lausanne. And in general traveled the world searching for settings for his main character, adventurer/sailr/hero, CORTO MALTESE, who somewhat resembles Burt Lancaster...as well as Hugo Pratt himself.
I was first attracted to Pratt's delicate washy watercolors a few years back.
Plus he does good seagulls...
Wonderfully loose sketch sheets
What's not to love?
Painting in his Swiss studio. He died in '95 just 62 years old, but he expanded the graphic novel to new heights from 1967 with his eye for cinematography and his adventurous storylines influenced by Kipling, Stevenson, Melville.
I was so tempted to buy a big empty paintbox like Pratt's at Boesner this week.
Love his personal sketch sheets..
Yet his strong black and white graphic
Drawings with India ink are just as enticing. The exhibition is appropriately called "Horizon Lines"
After over 2 hours of immersion and inspiration, I hopped on a tram just in front. Then a short metro trip to the center of Lyon before returning home. Somehow I missed this miniature museum. Plus the silk museum. I will have to return soon. The Hugo Pratt exhibit is on through October.
Plus he does good seagulls...
Wonderfully loose sketch sheets
What's not to love?
Painting in his Swiss studio. He died in '95 just 62 years old, but he expanded the graphic novel to new heights from 1967 with his eye for cinematography and his adventurous storylines influenced by Kipling, Stevenson, Melville.
I was so tempted to buy a big empty paintbox like Pratt's at Boesner this week.
Love his personal sketch sheets..
Yet his strong black and white graphic
Drawings with India ink are just as enticing. The exhibition is appropriately called "Horizon Lines"
After over 2 hours of immersion and inspiration, I hopped on a tram just in front. Then a short metro trip to the center of Lyon before returning home. Somehow I missed this miniature museum. Plus the silk museum. I will have to return soon. The Hugo Pratt exhibit is on through October.
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