Bubbles in Art Timeline
If you are looking for massive collections of BUBBLE PHOTOS, BUBBLE ARTS AND CRAFTS ACTIVITIES, SOAP BUBBLES IN ART, BUBBLES AS A GENERAL THEME & Etc., you'll find them elsewhere.
Below is a small collection of some of my favorite examples showing how bubbles have been depicted through time.
This is one way of exploring tools, methods and expectations of the era.
The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen Texas, Nov. 13 1947.
One of my all time favorite bubble comics.
Remember:
- 1946, in America immediately following WW2 the first national fad or "craze" was soap bubble blowing. One reason why, new chemicals made commercially available bubble solutions that were astonishingly better than anything else anyone had experienced.
- 1947 ish, Then "Plastic Bubbles" (think Super Elastic Bubble Plastic) came along and thrilled folks.
- Shortly after, Bubblegum was new and took off like a rocket.
- All the while, Sally Rand and others were doing bubble dances (big opaque rubber balls manipulated to obscure the view as they stripped) on stage in nightclubs.
- And, of course, the plexiglass bulbs sticking out from the sides and under warplanes (where the gunners and some bombardiers sat) ever called bubbles.
Which brings us to this amazing comic which sums all that bubble history up nicely.
1560
Children's Games
Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
Try to find him in
1599
Jan Saenredam, after Karel van Mander
Portret van Petrus Hogerbeets
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1830
Les jeux des Jeunes Garçons Les Bulles de savon
Postcard Detail
1843
Image from page 134 of book,
AMERICAN MESSENGER
Detail
C. 1845
American folk art portrait
Detail
1860
Carl Spitzweg
The Alchemist
Der Alchimist
Germany
Detail
1860
Advert for Concentrated leaven or bread powders
Detail
1871
Edna Paper Doll making bubbles John McLoughlin Jr founded printer in New York
Detail
1873
From The Nursery A Monthly Mag Vol xIII no. 2
Detail
c. 1880
J Friedlein Segars Cigars Toys Providence advertisement
Detail
1880
I'll Blow it Bigger or Bust
Advertisement for Silver Soap
1881
Saint Nicholas Magazine
volume 8
1882
Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper
Amusements of Fashionable Society
Soap-Bubble Party
Detail
1888
Pears Soap Advertisement
Detail
1892
Loppe Gabriel
Paris. Grandchildren Making Bubbles Photo.
Detail
1895
Advert for Bailey's Rubber Trumpet Bubble Blower
1895
The Bubble Party. A Pretty winter evening sport that is exceedingly Entertaining Decatur Weekly Republican Jan 3 1895
c. 1898
Grand Pa's Wonder Soap Advertisement
1903 Postcard. France.
Detail
1903
Black and White Illustrated Budget. August
A soap bubble class in London
Detail
1908
Alvin Langdon Coburn
The Bubble
Using Schindler's 1900 patented "Bubbler"
Detail
1910
by T.W. Rolleston
From The Tale of Lohengrin. New York - T. Y. Crowell
New Vanitas theme
1911
Bubble Blowing Automaton
1912
The Technical World Magazine
Detail from article about soap bubble play.
Poached Egg.
1913
New Bubble Toy
Unkn. Mfgr.
Detail
1915
From a small portfolio of photographs printed in Switzerland
Detail
c. 1914
Anti Kaiser Art
Postcards with bubble themes.
August 23, 1917
The Citizen, US Newspaper
Details from article about bubble play
1920
Press photo
c. 1930
Advert
1974 Chemtoy Catalogue featuring the NEW Mr. Bubbles