Month: October 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: Georges de La Tour lamp flame
The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour. On Google Art Project. Original is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Hovig Alahaidoyan
Hovig Alahaidoyan is a UK concept and visual development artist and designer for games and film. Though his blog is not extensive, and his portfolio is available only as a PDF, Alahaidoyan recently participated in Under Tomorrows Sky, in which he helped bring to life the visualization of a future city as conceptualized by a…
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Durand reattributed to Inness
In what is an instructive example of the ever shifting landscape of art history, and the mercurial nature of the past in general, a painting in the Dallas Museum of Art that had long ben attributed to the hand of Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand has been reassigned to George Inness, another great…
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Catherine Nelson
Visual effects artist Catherine Nelson, who has worked on films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, creates her personal work in the medium of digital photography, compositing hundreds of photographs into miniature floating worlds. There are several series in the “Artwork” section of her website, as well as earlier works…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiffany painting
Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa by Louis Comfort Tiffany. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yes, that Tiffany. Many who admire his designs and stained glass aren’t aware of his work as a painter. See my previous posts (listed below).
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Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Century
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow has placed online a catalog of their collection of Japanese Prints from the 18th and 19th centuries. You can browse through sections for landscapes, beauties, actors, warriors, sumo wrestlers, flowers and birds. You can also browse by artist or school, and there are additional reference materials.…