Month: December 2013
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Winter Solstice 2013
A few winter images to mark the winter solstice today. If you want more, revisit Irene Gallo’s “Picturing Winter: A Solstice Celebration” from 2011. Images above: John Henry Twachtman, Gustave Courbet, Caspar David Friedrich, Antoine Blanchard, Albert Bierstadt, Ivan Bilibin, Neil Welliver, Alphonse Mucha, Ivan Shishkin, Maxfield Parrish, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth, Toshi Yoshida)
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Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons at Princeton University Art Museum
Carceri (“Prisons”) is a series of 14 (in a later state, 16) copperplate etchings by the 18th century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. These are wonderfully detailed architectural fantasies, full of the suggestion of dramatic scale and lavished with fascinating details. What appears to be a complete set of the 16 plates in their later…
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Koji Morimoto animated sequence
As I mentioned back in 2007, Koji Morimoto is one of my favorite animation directors, though he has done far too little animation in recent years for the liking of his fans. Morimoto has recently animated a brief sequence as part of a short film directed by Mitsuyo Miyazaki, and sponsored (with lots of product…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun portrait
Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun On Google Art Project, also available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I think Vigée Le Brun likely “sweetened” her portraits a bit — flattering the sitter — but I’m a complete sucker for it. I just…
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Self-portraits #9, some contemporary artists
A round of contemporary painters… (Images above: David A. Leffel, Koo Schadler, Sadie J. Valeri, Anthony J. Ryder, Jeremy Lipking, Warren Chang, Lea Colie Wight, Daniel E. Greene)
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Journey, Aaron Becker
When I was young, I had a wonderful book called Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson (see my article here), about a boy with a magical crayon that becomes a pathway to adventures by bringing what is drawn with it to life. It was one of my favorite books as a child. It…