Month: May 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape
The Stone Bridge, Rembrandt, on Google Art Project. Mouse over to use zoom feature at lower right. From the Rijksmuseum.
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Pascal Campion
Pascal Campion’s illustrations are, quite simply, a treat. Campion rarely uses line, working directly in areas of color, sometimes augmented with textures, but his images are so fundamentally graphic that his springy, energetic compositions carry much of the visual charm of drawings. At the same time they have the atmospheric qualities of painting. Like Tadahiro…
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Master Drawings London, 2012
Master Drawings London is a coordinated sale of master drawings by a number of galleries in London, UK, from 27 June to 5 July, 2012. This is apparently the 12th such sale, and the event has a dedicated website from which you can access an online catalog. Though it unfortunately takes the form of one…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), by Luis Egidio Meléndez. On Metropolitan Museum of Art. View Fullscreen and choose zoom or Download (lower right).
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Leo Dillon, 1933 – 2012
I’m sorry to report that renowned illustrator Leo Dillon died on Saturday, May 26, 2012. Dillon, along with his wife and long-time artistic collaborator Diane, were particularly well known and influential in the fantasy and science fiction art communities. It would be difficult to sort out Leo Dillon’s work separate from that of Diane’s, nor…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt
Sunlight and Shadow by Albert Bierstadt. Form the collection of the De Young Museum, on Google Art Project. (Use zoom control at lower right.)