Month: January 2012
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Arkhip Kuindzhi
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a highly regarded Ukrainian/Russian landscape painter and a member of the amazing group of Russian painters known as the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”, see my related posts). Kuindzhi was noted for his unorthodox compositions and daring experiments with lighting effects, perhaps partly stemming from his limited formal training. He grew up…
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Laura Fantini
Italian artist Laura Fantini, who divides her time between Bologna, Italy and Brooklyn, NY, creates large scale images of intimate still life subjects. Her compositions feature unassumingly simple objects like leaves, seed pods and flower blossoms, rendered in large sizes, perhaps 30×40 inches (74x98cm). Her subjects are observed with the precision of botanical art, but…
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Craig Phillips (update)
Australian illustrator Craig Phillips has a crisp, clear style that ranges from the simplicity of line and color fill to slightly more rendered, but always has a strong sense of design and negative space. Phillips uses limited color ranges to great effect, often creating dynamic composition is what amounts to duotone. Not only do his…
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Viktor Bykov
Viktor Bykov is a Russian painter living in the general vicinity of Moscow. He studied at the Cheliabinsk Art College and the Stroganov Art and Design Institute in Moscow. Outside of that I can find little information, at least in English. Bykov paints landscapes in oil that walk an interesting line between naturalistic and invented…
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Boulet (Gilles Roussel)
Boulet (nom de plume of Gilles Roussel) is a French comics artist, largely unknown in the US, but familiar in Europe for his work in the magazine Tchô! and on series like Raghnarok, Miya and Womoks. Since 2004, Boulet has been one of the premiere comic strip bloggers, telling of his experiences, work and general…
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Claude Raguet Hirst
Claude (born Claudine) Raguet Hirst was a beautifully skilled still life painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her intimate, strikingly rendered paintings are considered to be in the American “trompe l’oeil” (fools the eye) style, a genre in which she was the pioneering woman artist. Though she started her career painting…