tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post1075713541035598704..comments2024-03-22T00:18:22.451-07:00Comments on A Modernist: Gil Mellé, Graphic Artist (1953-1956)Nick Rossihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604719128495370171noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-90320970264395970822020-04-27T07:33:50.362-07:002020-04-27T07:33:50.362-07:00Thank you for the very interesting information! An...Thank you for the very interesting information! Another nice cover design done by Gil, that you might want to include in your blog page: Collaboration West, by Teddy Charles (Prestige/Original Jazz Classics) Ric62https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792570501160071424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-24914410564130586122011-09-17T19:45:46.265-07:002011-09-17T19:45:46.265-07:00Thank you Doug. I have yet to turn up any of Mellé...Thank you Doug. I have yet to turn up any of Mellé's exhibited work. I have been looking though and will certainly post about it when I find something.Nick Rossihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604719128495370171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-24792778335816509052011-09-17T13:05:18.676-07:002011-09-17T13:05:18.676-07:00Thanks, I'm a fan of his music, but was curiou...Thanks, I'm a fan of his music, but was curious about his visual art. Top notch! Any chance you've run across images of the work he exhibited in galleries?DougHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11804067575520099781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-52608800999417214612011-09-11T12:07:45.314-07:002011-09-11T12:07:45.314-07:00Thank you for your comments Andrew. Although not n...Thank you for your comments Andrew. Although not necessarily explicit in most of my blog posts, I strongly agree with your views on nostalgia and referencing the past. What I find of interest in my day-to-day life is picking up the threads that were perhaps set aside 40 or 50 years - set aside sometimes in the name of "progress" and often in the interest of money-making. I do feel one can continue in the tradition of modernism in contemporary times.Nick Rossihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604719128495370171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-67773867189799818442011-09-11T11:54:31.939-07:002011-09-11T11:54:31.939-07:00We live now, it is claimed, in "post modern&q...We live now, it is claimed, in "post modern" times. Well so be it, but I suspect that is why more and more of us find attachment to what was "modern", relabelled as "retro" by style arbiters.<br />I'll take the optimism of the 50's and 60's over the moral and cultural relativism of the current decade anyday. <br />It's not nostalgia for some idylic past. Todays "Modern" can include reference to the past. It's no longer necessary to abandon it as superceded."Post-modern" is so last decade.Andrewhttp://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-32239577865333533112011-06-05T17:41:06.259-07:002011-06-05T17:41:06.259-07:00Thanks for taking the time to comment and for your...Thanks for taking the time to comment and for your enthusiasm. I plan to do a couple of other spotlights on early Blue Note LP art. In addition to the iconic 12-inch sleeves that Reid Miles produced in the 1950s and 1960s there are some beautiful early 10-inch sleeves which rival his mastery in my humble opinion. Stay tuned!Nick Rossihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604719128495370171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203248208360152904.post-88223831500337190662011-06-05T16:46:05.806-07:002011-06-05T16:46:05.806-07:00wow! these a gorgeous! i LOVE your blog!wow! these a gorgeous! i LOVE your blog!evolution nowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06592928776355314080noreply@blogger.com