Month: April 2009
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Carter Hodgkin
From a comment on my previous post about Fractal Images (thanks, Cedra), I learned of Carter Hodgkin, an artist working on one of those wonderfully fuzzy borders between art and science. Hodgkin’s paintings, drawings and prints are inspired by the tracings of “exotic” particles, strange bits of matter born in the miniature cataclysms created in…
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60 Fractal Images
I just love fractal generated images. These computer based images, crafted out of mathematical formulae, carry with them some of the visual characteristics of both natural forms and of abstract mathematical beauty. At their best, they resonate with a brain-tingling hint of infinity. Dainis Graveris has collected 60 prime examples, in this case all generated…
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George Loftus Noyes
George Loftus Noyes was an American painter, born in Canada of American parents, who started painting at an early age, and became a noted landscape painter in the Boston area just after the turn of the 20th Century. Noyes studied with English artist George Bartlett in Boston, and later studied in Paris at the ateliers…
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Richard Amsel
Well known for his film posters in the 1970’s and 80’s, illustrator Richard Amsel started his career early when he won a contest to illustrate the poster for Barbara Streisand’s Hello Dolly while he was still a student at the Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts) here in Philadelphia. He soon…
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William Degouve de Nuncques
William Degouve de Nuncques was a French-born Belgian Symbolist painter. He was self-taught, though his style was influenced friends and roommates Jan Toorop and Henry de Groux. His art was particularly shaped by his contact with the group of Symbolist poets to whom he was introduced by Juliette Massin, also an artist, who he married…
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MicroVisions 4
MicroVisions is an auction, now in its fourth year, in support of the Society of Illustrators scholarship fund. The auction is organized by Irene Gallo, the well known art director at Tor Books and author of the excellent blog, The Art Department, along with illustrator Dan Dos Santos (see my posts on Irene Gallo, Tor…