Month: September 2013
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Warren Chang: Narrative Paintings
Warren Chang is a contemporary American realist painter based in California. After a solid career as an illustrator, Chang transitioned into gallery art 12 years ago, and has achieved wide recognition. Chang’s primary subjects are figures in interiors and figures in landscapes. In the former, which I personally find particularly wonderful, he has an uncanny…
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Toby Allen's Real Monsters
Illustrator and concept artist Toby Allen created a series of monster illustrations, in which he attempted to interpret and give physical presence to the invisible “Real Monsters” of mental illnesses like anxiety, schizophrenia, avoidant personality disorder and others. Response to the series was such that Allen is revising and expanding the series, casting it as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Reni's Europa
The Rape of Europa, Guido Reni, 1637 Elegant handling of figure and drapery in this 17th century interpretation of the story from Greek mythology. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image.
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Deathigner
Deathigner (a play on designer), is a beautifully done short animation (6 minutes) about a little grim reaper in training, whose talents lie… elsewhere. The short was directed by Tzu Hsuan Fei and animated by Tzu Hsuan Fei and Ke-Ching Chang, with backgrounds by Kung Tien Chen and Li-Ying Fu, all of whom, along with…
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Nick Dudka (update)
Nick Dudka is a German born artist who studied art in Russia. After developing an interest in Buddhist religion and philosophy, he studied the art of Thangka, or scroll painting, in Mongolia, Nepal and India. Thangka paintings are usually painted on cloth — linen or cotton for most subjects, silk for more important subjects —…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase still life
Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase, William Merritt Chase In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase, Met Museum