Month: September 2012
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Robert Heilman
When I came across the work of Pennsylvania painter Robert Heilman at the F.A.N. Gallery here in Philadelphia today, I was initially captivated by his direct, painterly approach, deft use of light and controlled color. It was on further looking through the show that I began to notice some fascinating patterns in Heilman’s work. One…
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Eye Candy for Today: The Trellis by Gustave Courbet
The Trellis by Gustave Courbet. On Google Art Project. Click on image for Zoom controls. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.
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Space Shuttle concept art
Concept art has a multitude of uses outside of the film and gaming industries, even out in the “real world” — theme parks for example, use concept art to plan attractions. Another use is in the development of proposed space vehicles, this has been the case since Chesley Bonestell created images of potential spacecraft for…
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Is animation older than civilization?
Based on current evidence, the development of writing, and with it, “recorded history” goes back at least 5,000 or 6,000 years, perhaps further. The development of agriculture, which we use to mark the beginnings of “civilization” can be set at roughly 10,000 years. (Those who choose to believe that the earth is 4,000 to 7,000…
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Picturing Autumn on Tor.com
Here in the northern hemisphere, today is the first day of Autumn, AKA the Autumnal Equinox (and of course it’s the beginning of Spring down under, where they do everything upside backwards). An equinox is a point in the Earth’s orbit in which the tilted axis of our planet’s rotation is neither toward or away…
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Canaletto — Guardi: The two masters of Venice
“Veduta”, from the Italian for “view” is a subset of landscape painting and graphics in which the artist creates a reasonably accurate, usually large and detailed representation of a specific place. Most often the view is of a city that is remote and exotic to the intended audience for the works. The genre reached a…