Month: January 2013
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John F. Francis
Though he started his career as a portrait painter, Philadelphia born artist John Francis is primarily known for the still life paintings of his later career. These, mostly of fruit and desserts, varied from complex formal arrangements, sometimes against the backdrop of a partial landscape, to simple compositions of only a few objects. Francis was…
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Retro Future Transportation Illustrations on DRB
Is it the future yet? I just love past visions of the future (particularly when the future is in our past). The folks at Dark Roasted Blend, as they often do, have assembled some nice collections of retro future illustration — in this case past visions of future transportation, mostly culled from popular science magazines…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot interior
In the Conservatory, James Tissot. See my post on James Jacques Joseph Tissot.
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Shintaro Ohata
Shintaro Ohata is an artist from Hiroshima, Japan who is both a painter and a sculptor. Artists who are both sculptors and painters are not unusual. Ohata, however, frequently combines the two mediums in single works in which a painting and sculpture are displayed together as a mixed two dimensional – three dimensional work. The…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mancini’s Customs
The Customs, Antonio Mancini. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. John Singer Sargent is said to have called Antonio Mancini “the world’s greatest living artist”. Jean-Léon Gérôme called him “a phenomenon”. Who am I to argue?
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Nicolas Delort
Nicolas Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, creates wonderfully textural pen & ink (on scratchboard) illustrations that take inspiration from greats like Franklin Booth and Gustav Doré — with perhaps a bit of Joseph Clement Coll and Virgil Finlay thrown in for good measure. Delort’s website is essentially just a placeholder at the moment,…