Anna Kovecses

Anna Kovecses is another example of these practices of simplification and reduction being used in contemporary illustration. Alike to the work of Picasso or Matisse the subject is inspired by natural, and here also manmade, forms that remain recognizable to the audience. The key elements of the image are only reduced to their simplest form, defined by block colour, capturing the essence of this composition. Similarly to Cubist paintings, the lack of tonal difference in colour also leaves the image to be read on a single plane. This image is a part of a series of editorial illustrations Kovecses did for the BBC, demonstrating how this form of abstraction has been adapted to provide immediate and direct imagery that communicates to a mass audience. It is arguable, therefore that abstract art movements have influenced contemporary illustration practices in the evidence of similar simplification and reduction processes used to make images.