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Month: October 2011

  • Van Gogh on 60 Minutes/Overtime

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    This Sunday, October 16, 2011, the CBS TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes is doing a feature on Vincent van Gogh, focusing on a new biography, Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, that suggests Van Gogh may not have taken his own life as has been commonly assumed. Immediately after the television…

  • Retrofuture illustration from Japan on Dark Roasted Blend

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    Dark Roasted Blend has posted another of their “retro-future” illustration selections, this one featuring wonderfully over-the-top Japanese illustrations for magazines, toy and model boxes and advertisements from the 1930’s through the 1960’s. Most of the images are linked to larger versions. They’ve also tossed in a 1980’s advertisement for Canon that features Katsuhiro Otomo’s characters…

  • Hiroshi Yoshida (update)

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    Early 20th Century painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida is known in his native Japan as a Western style artist, and his work is very much in demand. Having trained in Western style painting, he carried those influences with him when he moved into traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking, also taking inspiration in subjects from his travels…

  • Sebastian Stoskopff

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    Sebastian Stoskopff (alternately Sébastien Stoskopff) was a 17th Century painter from Alsace, a German-speaking region of France, though he spent the core of his productive years in Paris. Stoskopff’s work was “rediscoved” in the 1930’s, with an appreciation for the intensely focused realism and detailed handling of his still life paintings, as well as the…

  • Breath of Embers: Art of Dragons

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    There’s just something about dragons, in all their scaly, writhing, whip-tailed, bat-winged glory, that gives artists a subject they can really, if you’ll excuse the expression, sink their teeth into. Breath of Embers: Art of Dragons is a new show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California that revels in dragons in a multitude of interpretations…

  • Jean Béraud

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    Originally trained as a lawyer, 19th Century artist Jean Béraud turned his attention to painting after his studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war. He was born in St. Petersberg, his father a sculptor, and moved to Paris after his father’s death. After studying with well known portrait artist Léon Bonnat, Béraud painted scenes of…