Year: 2010
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Monet at the Grand Palais
It may surprise lovers of Impressionism in the U.S. and Britain that Claude Monet, the artist whose name most hold synonymous with Impressionism, doesn’t evoke the same level of reverence in his native France. Not that he isn’t popular; the French just seem a bit more blasé about their cornucopia of Impressionist works and the…
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Peanuts turns 60
Peanuts, the iconic comic strip with a title its author hated, began 60 years ago today on October 2nd, 1950. The name was tacked on by the syndicate, arguing that the name Charles Schultz wanted, “L’il Folks”, was too close to the names of other current strips, and downplaying the viability of his subsequent suggestion,…
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Nicolas Ferrand
Concept artist Nicolas Ferrand works in the gaming industry, and has worked on titles like Assasin’s Creed, Prince of Persia 3, Splinter Cell 2, 3 & 4, Ghost Recon 2, Far Cry 2 and Avatar. Born in France, he now lives in Montreal, Canada where he is working on Thief 4 for Eidos/Square Enix. Ferrand…
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Paintbox Leaves
Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth is an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY that features some prime examples of American landscape painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibit explores the fascination artists have had with the glories of the American landscape in Autumn, described by Thomas…
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The Legend of Steel Bashaw, Petar Meseldžija
Serbian artist Petar Meseldžija, who I wrote about in 2008, has a career that has included outstanding work in comics, illustration, posters and gallery art. He has taken elements from all aspects of his skill range and applied them to the classic form of the illustrated storybook in The Legend of Steel Bashaw, an adaptation…
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Edgar Degas
Though considered a member of the original core group of French Impressionists, Edgar Degas (Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas), always stood apart, both in his approach to painting, in which he considered himself a realist rather than an Impressionist, and in his emphasis on drawing. Amid a group that downplayed the role of drawing in art…