Month: July 2012
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Malcolm Liepke
Malcolm T. Liepke is a well known and widely respected contemporary painter who works primarily in figurative and informal portrait subjects. (By “informal portraits”, I mean that his subjects are models posing for the benefit of the artist as opposed to the subject of commissioned portraits.) Liepke has been tremendously influential on a number of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Phillipe Rousseau still life
Eye Candy for Today: Still Life with Ham, Phillipe Rousseau. On Met Museum. Click “Fullscreen” under image, then use zoom or download arrow.
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Koren Shadmi
Koren Shadmi is an illustrator and comics artist whose clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, BusinessWeek, the Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, Spin and Random House, among others. Shadmi is originally from Israel; he moved to New York to study at the School of Visual…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ivan Bilibin illustration
Maria Morevna (#4) by Ivan Bilibin On Wikimedia Commons. here’s the info page. For more, see my previous post on Ivan Bilibin [Update: my original links were to a page in which the URL is in Russian characters, and I apparently can’t copy and paste those links. I’ve substituted links to another version of this…
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Roos Schuring
The landscape in the Netherlands, particularly in the lowlands, is largely sky. This seems to suit contemporary Dutch plein air painter Roos (pronounced like “Rose”) Schuring just fine. She loves to portray cloud filled skies of all kinds. Though she paints in all weather and conditions, she finds particular magic in the dramatic skies just…
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Edward Hopper on Met Museum website
Today is the birthday of the American artist Edward Hopper, and a tweet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art this morning reminds us of the wonderful trove of high resolution images on the museum’s website, including several paintings and a selection of Hopper’s often overlooked etchings.