Gerald Scarfe Research Paper

Gerald Scarfe was born on June 1st, 1936. He is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He also worked as an editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and an illustrator for The New Yorker. His work includes graphics from Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Hercules. He is married to Jane Asher and they three children together. After a short period at the Royal College of Arts, he established himself as a satirical cartoonist and still does satirical cartoons today. Even though he his most known for his animations for Hercules, his work for Pink Floyd and Roger Waters is incredible. Roger Waters (bassist for Pink Floyd) saw Gerald Scarfes’ work and was really intrigued by it. More particularly it was the animations from A Long Drawn Out Trip. He then asked Scarfe to do some work with the band. He animated short clips that were used in the In The Flesh tour and the full length video for Floyd’s song Welcome to the Machine. His illustrations for The Wall would be turned into animations for the movie. Scarfe would continue to work with Roger Waters after he went solo. …show more content…
He uses his emotions to draw out these different characters (Puppets) and scenes. We see him use symbolism, center of focus, space, harmony, repetition, texture, rhythm, and much more in these illustrations to really express how not only he felt about the issues The Wall was addressing but also how Roger Waters wanted saw it also. Scarfe creates these hammers that are a symbol of oppression and soon become a major part of the film. These hammers were the perfect symbol for oppression, they can cause some serious harm and damage to things. These hammers also influenced Waters; Waters would later add ‘hammers’ into some lyrics, Scarfe works influenced those