Month: September 2012
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Jean-Baptiste Monge (update)
There is a sub-genre within Victorian painting, Golden Age illustration and contemporary fantasy art that is sometimes called faerie art or fairy art. It dwells on those imaginary miniature denizens of woodlands and fields who are often portrayed with pointed ears and gossamer wings. As much as I like some of the former two categories,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Ulysses
Ulysses deriding Polyphemus — Homer’s Odyssey by Joseph Mallord William Turner In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to right of the image.
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Julius LeBlanc Stewart
Like his contemporary John Singer Sargent, Julius LeBlanc Stewart was an American artist who spent most of his career in France. Stewart was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux Arts, and his work was regularly accepted to the Paris Salon. Like another painter of his time, James Jacques Joseph Tissot (a…
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Jacob Wyatt
Jacob (Jake) Wyatt is a comics artist and animator who came to my attention by way of his beautiful short animation, Metro, which was done while he was a student (top three images above, plus promo, 4th down). Metro is about a young girl, a subway, a fox and… other things. It’s simply but very…
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At the Edge, Allentown Art Museum
There is currently a spectacular exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA called At the Edge that combines some of the finest contemporary fantastic art with some superb examples of art from the 19th century that is part of the legacy on which the contemporary genre is based, and puts one in context…