Month: June 2013
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Carla Falb
New Jersey based artist Carla Falb finds inspiration in the roller coasters that tower above that state’s Atlantic Ocean beachfront resorts. Her portrayals, based on her own riding experience and photographs, are at times more or less abstract. In their swing toward realism, blurred with speed and imbued with the disorienting sense of chaotic motion,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Etienne Liotard portrait
Portrait of Marie Fargues, Jean-Étienne Liotard In the Rijksmuseum. Use zoom controls at bottom, of create a free account and download images for “Personal Use”.
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KIm Jung Gi
Despite some glaring flaws in its presentation, this time lapse video of Kim Jung Gi drawing a complex panorama in markers, across two walls at 90° and apparently without preliminary sketch, is fascinating. Starting with a driver’s face, he goes on to draw cars, bikes, scuba divers and a variety of animals and people, including…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen still life
Still Life with Fish, Emil Carlsen In the National Gallery of Art, Washington; use “Zoom” control. Early in his career, the Danish-American painter spent six months in Paris, where he studied the still life paintings of Jean Siméon Chardin, apparently to great effect.
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Mirage
Mirage is a 10 minute animated short from Iker Maidagan and Dana Terrace, (with help from others listed in the credits). The short was created for their thesis project as students at the School of Visual Arts and is remarkably sophisticated in its storytelling and overall realization. It starts with an Inuit boy making a…
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Daniel Adel (update)
For hundreds of years, artists have been studying drapery, both as garments and backgrounds for still life, and more abstractly as a subject in which is revealed the play of light against complex folds, waves, valleys and ridges — in effect, a microcosm of light in nature. Daniel Adel evidently sees that microcosm, finding continuing…