Peio Hernandez Interview illustrator Louis Joos in Public "would be poisonous Baudelaire, Verlaine Music, Artaud insanely great, crazy and leisurely literary Queneau, speaks of them as if known at face value. You searched the affinity with each experience to illustrate their narratives. Summarizes the work of illustrator something of an issue of treatment of diplomacy with the words of another. For the artist Louis Joos (Belgium, 1940) does not exist a standard way to treat all authors, as every author has his own universe must be understood to ensure that both text and drawings could not exist without each other.
still have not come to our libraries Louis Joos comics devoted to the world of jazz and the novels. And when will storm ashore. For now, we have enjoyed over the past two years two of his works that the publisher published here Norden, in his collection of books. The first, The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire, was pure blood, absolutely passionate. The second, which has just appeared, is the bilingual edition of an anthology of poetry by Paul Verlaine, in which it relates in a more pacified. Physical work
Joos work is intuitive, suggestive, violent and intense. Or that is a string of qualifications that he prefers to limit: "If I were to rate my drawing, I would like to be expressive. Literally threw me to work on paper. The drawing, whatever, I do it at full speed and the result is a success or a failure. Hence the many versions, "he says from his studio in Brussels. That effort and the role physical delivery, should be prepared, so to speak normally says its momentum tends to do in terms of sport when it comes to putting about prior to the start of an album or a comic illustrations. "I'm not exaggerating," says the artist. He says it is interesting to consider
new editions of classic texts to attract new readers. All indications are that with these two books, has captured a few. Is it because his is an illustration delicate, friendly and clean. These are images from close range. Are start-ups, sketches, strokes fast movements. It's the thrill of the depths, in this case, Verlaine. "Well, I do not distinguish between drawings, sketches, drawings, watercolor or oil painting or dry pastels, inks
...", says. Is expressed with force and simplicity, because it recognizes that when is not satisfied with any result, it passes to another technique ... or use them all at once. And it sums up the best possible way: "I think drawing is to give life to the role." Diver soul harmony between text and image is a challenging achievement. Joos read before getting to abstract concepts of the passages of Baudelaire, his prose work, correspondence and writings on art. Everything seemed little, remember, to understand a writing "lucid in the affairs of the soul." That level of concentration in drawing led him to make between 10 and 30 versions of the same illustration. Therefore it is foolish to see in these drawings merely tipsy carnival flaming writings. "I can not imagine I never work as a decorator of books. I am radically against this idea: look for the passion and graphic design, "says angrily. It is easy to see what explains Louis Joos. Do not use reality as a chronic, it is not true to the details of what
see (or what they teach writers in his poems) and actually has a filter, his own personality as an illustrator. And so the truth gives way to remembrance. In this imagined world
translation in the real world, abstraction plays an important role: "Obviously. Abstraction is the key. The literal translation seems to me the height of absurdity. All drawings should be an abstraction " because, explains Louis Joos, a drawing has its own life and is only a picture of what is happening around us.
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