Month: July 2008
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Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art (WGA) is one of the best and most extensive of the “online museums” on the web. The WGA is more specific than some, with a focus on European Art from the Gothic to the Romantic periods (1100 to 1850). The gallery has a search function, as you would expect, as…
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Mark A. Garlick
No, It’s not fireworks, at least not of the terrestrial variety. (For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today, July 4th, is Independence Day here in the U.S., a holiday usually associated with fireworks displays.) The fireworks shown here are celestial, in an interpretation of a supernova,…
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Guy Billout
Guy Billout seems fascinated with patterns, whether of hedgerow mazes, the multiple columns of colonnades, tiled floors or repeated structures; particularly those patterns that lead us to one conclusion, only to be presented with another. Billout is a French illustrator who deals in quiet irony. His images are still and contemplative, even when portraying dramatic…
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Illusionistic 3-D painting on sidewalks and walls
I’ve written before about the illusionistic 3-D sidewalk “paintings” in chalk by artists like Kurt Wenner and Julian Beever, as well as the large scale illusionistic murals by Eric Grohe. Web Urbanist has posted a nice overview, Amazing 3D Art from the Best Street Artists, with a selection of work by Wenner (image above), Beever,…