Month: July 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: Brullov’s Pompeii
The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Brullov. From the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, on Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls.
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Ilene Meyer 1939-2009
Ilene Meyer was a painter who created stunning magic realist, fantastic and visionary works, often involving continued themes of checkered planes, geometric objects, animals, sea creatures, flowers, fruit and other aspects of the natural world, real and imagined, swirled into cascades of looping forms as if pulled by strands of liquified gravity. Unfortunately news is…
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Todd M. Casey
New York based artist Todd M. Casey is originally from Massachusetts, and credits his background with developing his attraction to still life subjects that have a feeling of history and suggest a narrative. Casey worked for a time as a graphic designer in New York. While beginning studies in animation at the Academy of Art…
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Franklin Booth (update)
Franklin Booth was a great American Illustrator and one of art history’s masters of the medium of pen and ink. Booth grew up on a farm in Indiana in the late 1800’s. Innocently misunderstanding the printing technology of the time, he developed his style by copying what he thought were pen and ink illustrations in…
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Nick Patten (update)
When I wrote about the beautiful and quietly enigmatic room interiors of Nick Patten back in May of this year, I pointed out that I found it difficult to navigate his online portfolio. I’m happy to day that Patten has redesigned his website, making it much easier to view the images of his work. For…
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Eye Candy for Today: Interior of the Oude Kerk, De Witte
. On Met Museum. Use Fullscreen link, then zoom or download arrow. Compare to same subject by . There is, shall we say, a bit less respect being shown to the imposing edifice in De Witte’s version (grin).