Month: June 2012
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Julia Sarda
Julia Sarda is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer based in Barcelona. She has a wonderful, lively style, a superb sense of color and a great feeling for visual drama. She also demonstrates a masterful command of dark and light in her compositions, and plays with theatrical spotlight effects and uplighting to great effect.…
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Constable’s oil sketches
The brilliant English landscape painter John Constable, along with his contemporary J.M.W. Turner, are sometimes viewed as precursors to French Impressionism, and, by extension, the generations of modern painting that followed. I think it’s even more interesting to consider the line from Constable through the outdoor paintings of Eugene Boudin, the Barbizon school, the Impressionists…
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Brooklyn Museum on Google Art Project
The Brooklyn Museum, as I reported back in 2010, is a terrific and underrated museum of art and artifacts that exists in the shadow of larger and better known museums in Manhattan. The museum’s collection contains superb examples of American and European painting, some of which you can now view online in glorious detail by…
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Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered at NRM
Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, the excellent exhibition about the grand master of American illustration that was organized by the Delaware Art Museum and was on view there earlier this year, has moved to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where it will be on display until October 28, 2012. Unfortunately, the NRM apparently…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo
“Allegory of the Planets and Continents” by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Preparatory painting for the decoration of the large staircase ceiling of the Residenz of Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and zoom or download. If you download, in your image editor, rotate the image to see…
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Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2012
Each year five teams of students from the graduating class of the Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris create short animations that are used as introductions to each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation, which is happening this week. This year’s entries appear to have a theme relating…