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Month: February 2012

  • Inspirations

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    Inspirations is a beautifully realized and wonderfully conceived short CGI animated film by Cristóbal Vila. It is a homage to the works of artist M.C. Escher, conceived as Vila’s fanciful imagining of the artist’s workspace, filled with objects that refer to aspects of Escher’s work On his website, Etérea Studios, Vila provides information about the…

  • Tran Nguyen

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    Born in Vietnam and raised in the US, Georgia based artist Tran Nguyen studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design (if I’m interpreting the info page of her website correctly, her name is pronounced “tron wen”). Nguyen’s illustrations combine elements of realism, magic realism, art nouveau and perhaps symbolism, and frequently include…

  • Closer to Van Eyck

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    Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece is an online presentation of the results of a research project that examined the artist’s extraordinary masterwork in extreme detail, both to assess and record its condition for conservation. The site opens up with a full image of the panels of the altarpiece; from there you can…

  • Simon Dominic

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    Simon Dominic (who you will sometimes see referred to as Simon Dominic Brewer) is an English illustrator and concept artist. Like many contemporary concept artists and illustrators working in the science fiction and fantasy vein, Simon works digitally, painting his compositions in Corel Painter and Art Rage Studio Pro (see my 2011 review of Art…

  • The Public Domain Review

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    I’d like to talk (well OK, rant) for a minute about copyright and the principle of public domain. “Public domain” is a term referring to works that have passed out of copyright, or have been deliberately assigned to the public domain on creation (for example when created for the U.S. government), and therefore now belong…

  • Mary Jane Ansell

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    UK artist Mary Jane Ansell has been a finalist in the prestigious National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award in 2004, 2009 and 2010 (see my post on the 2011 BP Portrait Award). Her portraits and other figurative paintings are elegant and highly refined, both in their paint handling and in her use of light to…