Customer Reviews

The Fantasy World of Josephine Wall

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The fantasy art of Josephine Wall is innocent in subject, with a touch of the abstract, and often rich in detail.

SPECIFICS:
Page Count: 128
Number of images: 118
Small images: 5
Half page images: 45
Full page images: 64
2-page spreads: 4
BW images: 0

TEXT:
Foreword: 1 page
Introduction: 1 page
Thanks and apologies: 1 page
Most of the paintings have a small paragraph with comments by the artist.
Title, real size, year and medium used for every painting.

ART:
25 images: 5 stars
62 images: 4 stars
31 images: 3 stars
0 images: 2 stars
0 images: 1 star


Overall: 4 Stars

I love the artwork, and I can think of multiple stories to go with the pictures. You can look at these for AGES and not get bored.

Lovely book filled with exquisite fantasy art - I bought it as a gift and couldn't resist peeking at it before wrapping.

Length:: 0:52 Mins

If someone would ask me who the most talented fantasy artist is in my opinion, I would easily say Josephine Wall. She's one of my favorite fantasy artists because of her complex talent of painting life- like mythical beings and the fact she uses pretty much every color of the rainbow and in between in just one painting. If you have ever blown bubbles as a child and look at the outside of one, you see a rainbow of color and thin veil. All of her paintings look exactly like the outside of a glossy bubble. This is quite an amazing effect although sometimes overwhelming. She's one of the artists I would say is too much when it comes to color. Many artists such as Jessica Galbreth, Linda Ravenscroft and Amy Brown tend to lead toward different shades of the same colors in one painting. However, Josephine Wall just does the whole nine yards and more. This isn't something every artist can pull off. The book itself is a gorgeous presentation. Every page is filled to the brim with artwork and even the background has watermark images of her creations. The pages are glossy and tightly bound. This is easily one book you can look at for hours, even days without grasping the true details of each image. I love art that makes you go back and keep looking at it, and hers fits the bill. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves colorful, talented, fantasy art. I can also add this book doesn't have any nudity in it, so it wouldn't offend anyone.

Jospehine Wall has inspired me in many ways. This book was great, I saw many pictures I had never seen before and I hope she does another book soon.

Pictures are beautiful, informative information, would like to see more work by artist. I have a few of her prints and I enjoy them tremendously!

While the art seems a little dated, it's a great book for dreamy little fantasy/fairy-loving girls to browse through.