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Month: January 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Achenbach’s Snowy Forest

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    Snowy Forest, Andreas Achenbach Watercolor, 16×24″ (42x62cm). A little reminder for those of us here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. that snow can be beautiful. On Google Art Project. High res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf.

  • Swann Galleries auction of 20th Century Illustration

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    Swann Auction Galleries in New York is presenting an auction of “20th Century Illustration” on this Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 1:30pm. It looks to be quite wonderful, not only in the quality of the work offered, but in the breadth of styles, from painterly to pen and ink to cartoons and comics. There is…

  • Self-portraits #10

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    More “selfies” from the pre-iPhone annals of art history. (Images above: Edgar Degas, Hans Holbein the Yonger, Alexandre-François Desportes, Giovanni Boldini, J.M.W. Turner, Margaret Foster Richardson, Pablo Picasso, Franz Eybl)

  • Mirage

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    Mirage is a three minute animated short with animation and music by Frederic Kokott. Less a story than a short audio-visual poem, it was made with vector graphics in Illustrator and After Effects, using the “2.5D parallax effect” that has become popular in making animated art images lately. Kokott has posted some making of videos,…

  • YongSub Noh

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    YongSub Noh is a Korean concept artist and illustrator, about whom I can find little other information. His work, however, is richly imaginative and nicely realized. The best gallery is on CGHub, which is where I encountered his work. He has a blog, on which you can find larger images, detail crops and lots of…

  • François Marius Granet

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    Sometimes artists, like musicians, are called on to replay their “greatest hits” (or “hit”). François Marius Granet was a French painter, originally from the Provençal town of Aix. He studied there in a free art school run by the landscape painter M. Constantin. Granet went to Paris, where he had the opportunity to study with…