Month: June 2013
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Ukiyo-e Search
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints extending in time from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth. It was followed by the early twentieth century genres of Shin-hanga and Sosaku-hanga, which carried forward some of the Ukiyo-e sensibilities while adding their own characteristics, particularly in the adoption of visual techniques from Western…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hassam summer garden
The Water Garden, Childe Hassam Did somebody say “Summer”? In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.
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Liam Peters
Originally from Brisbane, Australia and now living in the U.S., Liam Peters is an illustrator an visual development artist for the gaming industry. His digital paintings, done in Photoshop, often delve into vivid imaginings of the grotesque and the fantastic. He frequently uses a muted palette, punctuated with brighter passages, and a range of intricate…
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Eye Candy for Today: Inness pines
Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, George Inness This soft, moody landscape by Inness is given an almost Pre-Raphaelite feel by the shapes of the Italian pines. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link.
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Jacob Kerssemakers
Most painters who buy canvas by the roll cut off rectangles in common sizes. Dutch artist Jacob Kerssemakers, in contrast, cuts his 30 foot rolls lengthwise into horizontal strips, 10 to 20 inches high, to accommodate his novel approach to plein air painting on long scrolls. There is a short film by Roland Kemp on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Piranesi architectural fantasy
Part of a spacious and magnificent harbor for the use of the ancient Romans opening onto a large market square…, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Etching, engraving, drypoint and sulphur tint, 16×21″ (20x54cm). From a portfolio titled Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques, and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect. In the collection of…