Month: February 2012
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Sam Vokey
Boston based painter Sam Vokey paints still life, landscapes and portraits in a crisp, clear, realist style. Though the surface of his paintings often looks refined, he never crosses over into the stiffness of photorealism, and maintains a painterly edge. His palette ranges from muted to bright as the subject warrants. His still life paintings,…
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Becky Cloonan
Becky Cloonan is an American comics artist and writer known for her recent unique take on Conan the Barbarian with writer Brian Wood, as well as her own self-published titles and other work for Dark Horse, Vertigo, Marvel and other publishers. Cloonan started out self-publishing her own mini comics and then moved into more mainstream…
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Matt Smith
Arizona artist Matt Smith paints en plein air in locations across the Western U.S. Smith studied in the Fine Arts program of Arizona State University, but somewhat disenchanted with the abstract emphasis of the program, pursued independent study of American Western artists like Maynard Dixon, William Herbert Dunton, and Edgar Payne. Smith has also studied…
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Royalists to Romantics
Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections is an exhibition at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC that offers a chance to view paintings from European collections by women artist who were active from 1750 to 1850. Unfortunately, the museum’s website doesn’t feature…
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The Train and SINCE… by Cyril Calgaro
Two very short animations by Cyril Calgaro. The Train (images above, top two) is devoted to the painter Mondrian’s simplification of forms. SINCE… is a mini essay on the history of communication, told in animated icons. [Via Parka Blogs]
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The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
Bittersweet nostalgia; and/or my attic and basement… [Via Dave Gibbons]