Illustrationintheworld

  Born in Kiev in 1897, Nathalie Parain studied at the Vkhutemas in Moscow. In the 1920s she moved to Paris with her husband, the philosopher Brice Parain. Inspired by constructivist theories, poster design and education, she started dedicating herself to illustration for children. In 1930 he illustrated Mon chat (My cat) written by André Beucler and published by Gallimard. Then she met the publisher and pedagogue Paul Faucher who offered her to illustrate for Les albums du Père Castor. Today Nathalie Parain is considered one of the major artists. It still has a great influence on contemporary children's picture books. It is the first definitive monograph on Nathalie Parain. It brings together illustrations, excerpts from books and unpublished material. Interviews with her daughter and texts written by children's literature experts offer insightful perspectives on her work.

  Born in St. Petersburg, Vasili Zorin, together with Stas Bashkatov, Anna Cattish, Roman Muradov, Vitaliy Shushko, Vladislav Gusev (whom I will tell you about shortly), is part of the collective and creative studio HonkFu, a Russian group of illustrators, animators and visual artists. Vasili's artistic style emphasizes severe lines and painterly rendering. With bright colors and a balance between traditional comics and digital painting, it takes us through cyber punk backgrounds, sensual angry pin ups between Jamie Hewlett and Ashley Wood, manga influences and Marvellian homages.

  Liana Anatolievich is an russian artist. In 2015 she graduated from Irkutsk Art College Kopylov and specialized in easel painting. After graduating from university, Liana agreed to work as a saleswoman in a friend's store. In January 2016 he bought his first graphic tablet She always loved drawings cartoons and comics and finally, he had the opportunity to practice in a self-taught way. At first it was just a hobby, but with the time it became a real interest to create their own style and enjoy it. Since the summer of 2017, Liana left the job of the saleswoman and devoted herself entirely to digital illustration as independent artist and freelance.

  Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev (Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ле́бедев; 26 May 1891 – 21 November 1967) was part of the Russian avant-garde: A painter, a political cartoonist and a poster artist, with an experimental style influenced by Russian folk art, lubki, futurism, constructivism, suprematism, productionism and cubism. A pioneer in the field of children's illustration, he would later acknowledge his role in inventing a new illustrative style, created in the "language of cubism." Lebedev's most important contributions to children's literature were made in the 1920s, and some of his most ground-breaking work was created in collaboration with the poet Samuil Marshak, whom Maxim Gorky called "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature." Together, they published more than a dozen picture books, on topics both fanciful: Tale About a Foolish Mouse and instructive: How a Plane Made a Plane. Raduga ("The Rainbow"), a renowne...

Boris Artzybasheff  ( Russian :  Борис Арцыбашев , 25 May 1899,  Kharkov ,  Russian Empire  — 16 July 1965) was an  American   illustrator  of  Russian origin  active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often  surreal  designs.