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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons

Bob Kessel

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I was delighted this morning when Bob Kessel friended me on Facebook.

I have been aware of his illustrations in The New York Times,

The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek,  and many other national publications.

I did not know his fine art work which is in numerous private and museum collections.

His artwork revisits the works of old and modern masters.

Kessel’s work is amusing, intelligent, beautiful, graphic, bold,  and more.

His collection of quotes called Artists on Art represents his illustrative style.

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Bob Kessel’s Fine Art

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Girl with Pearl Earing by Bob Kessel

After Vermeer

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Herring by Bob Kessel

After Van Gogh

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Limited edition prints and original art by Bob Kessel • Email:  b.kessel@snet.net • Phone: (860)334-9438

All images in this post © Copyright Robert Kessel

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What is Superfad?

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Superfad is a brand-driven design and live action production company. We are a collective of designers, directors, animators, and artists. Our mission is to see brands in unexpected ways and to express a brand’s voice in an undeniably original fashion.

Superfad’s work runs counter to the trend of design studios who present a singular house style. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and London, our work is informed by a wide array of cultural and intellectual influences. Fine art, science, math, and literature are fused with illustration, photography, and technology to produce stunningly original imagery.

Superfad was founded in 2001 and has produced award-winning work for many of the most respected brands worldwide. Honda, Sony, Target, Adidas, and AT&T are just a few of the companies who have turned to Superfad for inspired branding.

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The World at 1000 Frames per Second

Created for SONY Make.Believe by Superfad

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When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer – say traveling in a carriage,

or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep;

it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them.

Those ideas that please me I retain in memory, and am accustomed, as I have been told,

to hum them to myself.

Posthumous Portrait of Mozart by Kraft 1819

All this fires my soul, and provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself,

becomes methodized and defined,

and the whole, though it be long, stands almost completed and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it,

like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance.

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once.

What a delight this is I cannot tell! All this inventing, this producing takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

Still the actual hearing of the tout ensemble is after all the best.

What has been thus produced I do not easily forget, and this is perhaps

the best gift I have my Divine Maker to thank for.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart is talking about going off-line; disconnecting from the pressure of producing his next piece.

When we are off-line, creative flow is more possible. We allow more opportunities to synthesize.

Being off-line may include dreaming, taking a walk, going to a museum or gallery;

a myriad of activities we may do alone.

Sometimes when the weather is bad, I may take walks through the bookstores

where there are tens of thousands of visual stimuli.

We incubate when we allow ideas to develop at their own pace.

it is like sleeping on an idea.

The best ideas come to me when I am in that moment of somnolence just before I fall asleep.

I keep a pad by the side of my bed. I write my ideas down less I forget them.

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