Month: December 2009
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Frank Brangwyn, R. A.: The Way of the Cross
When I first wrote in 2006 about Frank Brangwyn, the superbly accomplished painter, muralist, watercolorist, illustrator and printmaker, there were only a few scattered resources on the web, and very little in the way of available books or other printed material. Since then, more resources have become available on the web, and I’ve listed some…
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Ralph Oberg
As much as I happen to enjoy paleontological reconstruction art, which is essentially paintings of no longer extant animals, I have to say that I usually don’t respond well to contemporary wildlife art. Too often it feels staged and artificial, and seems to lean on over-rendering and sentimentality in place of more solid artistic concerns.…