Freiburg, Germany’s Raphaëlle Martin is a freelance illustrator making potent work that tends to favor large, vivid color fields and sparsely scattered collage elements. The portfolios “Together,” “Lost Places,” “Girls,” and “Love” are all generously laden with exceptionally striking work, but I’d suggest giving the entire posted oeuvre a perusal, the work evinces a real gift for eloquent expressions of isolation. Curiously, a small series of wall clocks based on the illustrations is available, but what we’d like to share today is a series of animated gifs Martin undertook last year in tribute to that great surrealist painter René Magritte. These renderings of the works are a bit more flat and rudimentary than the originals, which actually seems fine to me; I’ve always felt Magritte’s greatness was more as a painter of ideas than as a God among draftsmen. Points awarded, also, for the crafty way the film-scratch effect Martin added to these covers up the telltale dithering effect that can accompany gifs with limited color indexes. Enjoy.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Via Abduzeedo

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
All the faces of David Bowie in one animated gif
The Beatles’ animated album covers