Month: January 2013
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John Singer Sargent’s Madame X
Ever since portraiture become popular among the newly empowered merchant classes in Europe a few centuries ago, it has been common practice for portrait artists in the early stages of their career to paint non-commissioned portraits as examples of their ability. These are often intended to be striking and memorable, advertising the artist’s capabilities and…
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Eye Candy for Today: WM Chase summer landsacpe
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, William Merritt Chase. Link is to Google Art Project, click in lower right for zoom controls. Original is in Princeton University Art Museum.
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Felix Yoon
Felix Yoon is a visual development artist and illustrator who has worked at Dreamworks Animation. On his website you can find examples of his concept art, color keys and characters, as well as personal work. There is an additional gallery on Concept Art World. When Yoon was a student at the Art Center College of…
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Eye Candy for today: Jakob Alt watercolor
View from the Artist’s Studio in Alservorstadt toward Dornbach, Jakob Alt. Alt treats us to a simultaneous landscape and interior. In the Albertina, Vienna. Use zoom and fullscreen controls in lower right of image. Also on Google Art Project.
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Mike Davis
The biographical information on Mike Davis’ website describes him as a “modern surrealist painter”. Though his work certainly shows the influence of the original European Surrealist painters, notably Dalí, as well as their more watered down descendants the “pop surrealists”, it is in the work of the 16th century Netherlandish painters Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter…
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin forest scene
Rain in an Oak Forest, Ivan Shishkin (from here).