Month: November 2012
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Eye Candy for Today: linear perspective tour de force by Carlo Crivelli
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius, Carlo Crivelli. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom tools to the right of the image. There is also a large image on Wikimedia. The early 15th century saw both linear geometrical perspective construction and the medium of oil painting come into common use in European painting…
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All Over Coffee on The Rumpus
First of all, if you’re not familiar with Paul Madonna’s wonderful All Over Coffee, you may want to read my previous article on All Over Coffee, or my subsequent post on the second collection, Everything is its own reward, in which I struggle to find sufficient superlatives to describe the feature. Though ostensibly classified as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel watermedia
The Choirstalls in the Mainz Cathedral by Adolph Menzel. Watercolor and gouache. 8 7/8 x 11 3/8″ (22.6 x 28.9cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “Fullscreen” link below the image and then zoom or download arrow.
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How to Ship Paintings on red dot blog
Jason Horejs is the owner of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to running the gallery, Horejs provides art marketing advice from the point of view of a gallery owner — some of it dispensed freely through his red dot blog (named, if you didn’t catch it, for the small red dots that traditionally…
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Trail of Steel – 1441 A.D., Marcos Mateu-Mestre
The link between movies and comics is a strong one. Even without the obvious bridge of their wonderful merging in animation, they share numerous qualities. Both are visual storytelling mediums, and share a common concern with establishing shots, close-ups, framing a scene, conveying the spatial relationship of characters one to the other and other elements…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ilya Repin’s Sadko
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, Ilya Repin. Link is to large image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Sadko is a medieval Russian epic. [Note: full size version might be considered mildly NSFW.]