Year: 2010
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Ed Binkley
Concept artist and illustrator Ed Binkley has crafted a style of illustration that seems at once old and new. His finely detailed, almost monochromatic images feel as though they are from another time, or perhaps another place, with fantasy subjects inhabiting misty woods and glades, all drawn with meticulous care. Despite the level of detail…
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Isaac Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Isaak Il’ich Levitan) was one of the greatest of Russian landscape painters, one of the greatest Russian painters in general, and one of the great landscape painters in the history of art. Born into a poor family, he managed to begin study at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture when his…
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István Orosz
In my post from 2008 about Anamorphic Art, I briefly mentioned the work of Hungarian artist István Orosz. Orosz is a graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, poster artist, animator, stage designer and painter. He has a fascination with anamorphosis, and has several examples of his own in the gallery on his web site. Unfortunately the site…
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Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
A “Book or hours” (Wikipedia) is a devotional text of prayers, stories and psalms common in the Middle Ages. Though they followed similar forms, each was unique and, of course, hand lettered. Many of them were illuminated, but few as lavishly and beautifully as the one known as The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. It…
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Jan Toorop
Jan Toorop (also known as Jean Theodoro Toorop or Johannes Theodorus Toorop) was a Dutch Symbolist painter with a wonderfully unique style. He was born in Purworedjo, Java, at a time when Java was a Dutch colony. Ne moved to the Netherlands in 1872 and studied in Delft and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Toorop’s…
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Sally Tharp
Michigan born painter Sally Tharp graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a BFA, but considers herself a self-taught painter. Her web site features several series of painting themes, including outdoor sign letters and a series of still life objects on shelves and other still life subjects. Her primary focus, however, is a wonderful…