Month: October 2010
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Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting
Tiziano Vecellio, commonly called Titian, was one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. His reputation spread form his native Venice to Rome and the other art centers of Italy, as well as to Spain and throughout Europe. His mastery of oil painting, use of color, and strength in all phases of painting —…
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Chris Ryniak
On his blog Chris Ryniak describes himself as “monster & critter maker”. On his website you will find galleries of his monsters & critters both as paintings (also here) and as small scale sculptures in epoxy, glass, vinyl and acrylic. My timing is a little off with this post, in that his show at MyPlasticHeart…
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Machiavelli, online graphic novel by Don MacDonald
Niccolò Machiavelli was a 15th Century Italian diplomat, philosopher and writer, from whose political treatise, The Prince, along with other writings, we get the contemporary usage of his name in the term Machiavellian, referring to the use of deceptive cunning and planning in politics. Machiavelli himself, however, was hardly an example of the intricate political…
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Margarita (Hampa Studio)
Margarita is a beautifully designed, drawn and realized animated short (about 12 minutes long) from Hampa Studio. Another example of small independent studios doing high level work, this award winning story follows the adventures of a young princess (lived in the imagination of our actual protagonist, a young girl being read the story by her…
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Southwest Art Magazine
Southwest Art is a print magazine devoted to American Western art, with a focus on contemporary artists. The magazine is a division of F+W Media, and is related to sister publications that include The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist and The Pastel Journal. They post a number of full articles from the magazine on their website,…
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Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924 – 2010
As I described in my post about him from 2008, Benoît Mandelbrot was not an artist, but a mathematician. His work, however, has enabled others, from dedicated computer artists to dabblers, to create the multitude of stunning images we know as ‘fractals”. In the process, he deepened our understanding of nature and the concept of…