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Month: October 2012

  • Eye Candy for Today: Durer’s Hare

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    Hare (or Field Rabbit), by Albrecht Durer. Watercolor and bodycolor, roughly 10 x 8″ (35 x 22 cm). Wow. Stunning mastery of water media, and one of the most clear, focused and beautiful examples of artistic observation I’ve ever seen. On Google Art Project. Click on the image for zoom controls. Original is in the…

  • Guido Daniele

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    Guido Daniele is an italian painter and illustrator based in Milan. In 2000, Daniele started creating his “Handimals”, in which he applies body painting techniques to hands, poses them in positions that, along with the painting, result in images that resemble animals, portrayed with a wonderful sense of dynamics. He has extended this to painted…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot multiple portrait

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    En plein soleil by James Jacques Joseph Tissot. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link under image and then zoom or Download arrow.

  • Little Nemo in Google Land

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    Google is celebrating the 107th anniversary of the debut of Winsor McCay’s comics masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland with a wonderfully done interactive tribute on the Google landing page at Google.com. (Click on the small downward pointing arrow below the image on the Google page to advance.) This will, of course, be replaced tomorrow, but…

  • Thomas Kegler

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    Thomas Kegler is a painter from Western New York State. Largely self-taught, Kegler was drawn to the traditional techniques of realist painting, and in particular the approach of the Hudson River School and their reverence for the beauty of the natural world. Kegler also follows the study-to-studio approach of the second generation Hudson River painters,…

  • Heritage Illustration Auction Oct 13-14

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    Heritage Auctions, which showcases illustration more often than the high society auction houses, has an illustration auction in New York this weekend, October 13-14, 2012, that features some superb examples of Golden Age illustration. Here is the link for the online catalog, and the list of featured images (I’m not sure how long these links…