Steven Heller, an American art director, journalist, critic, designer, author and editor, describe, in his The Daily Heller Blog (4/8/21) “The joy of illustration (I use “joy” often in pandemic-era prose) is a simple equation: surprise + illumination + craft + ingenuity + style = revelation (or s+i+c+i+s=r).”

Illustrator Melinda Beck spins a symbolic portrait of Louis Bourgeois, a an internationally renown French-American Artist (1911-2010).

Louis Bourgeois is celebrated for her bronze, stainless steel and marble sculpture Maman (1999) which depicts a spider
measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (927 x 891 x 1024 cm).

Melinda Beck, living in Brokklyn, NY, is an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer. Over her quarter century in the business she has had the pleasure of working for such clients a wide-range of publications including The New York Public Library, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Random House, pTime Magazine, the United States Postal Service and many more. Political art has always been important to her work.

Illustration on Left of Louise Bourgeois by Melinda Beck
Sculpture on Right by Louis Bourgeois