Month: January 2014
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Van Gogh “selfies” (Self-portraits #9)
In his short career, spanning just 10 years, Vincent van Gogh painted a remarkable series of self-portraits, chronicling not only his evolution as a painter, but his often troubled emotional states. For a more complete list, see this page on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Jakob Schmutzer wash drawing
Landscape with a ruin near Mödling, Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Brown and grey ink, black chalk. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hi-res version here (1.7mb).
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Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver was an American artist who began his career in the middle of the 20th century as an abstract color field painter, and gradually moved into realism. He kept some aspects of modernist painting theory incorporated in his approach, however, and his large scale watercolor landscapes are composed of areas of relatively flat color,…
