Month: April 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Pedro Alexandrino still life
Grapes and Peaches, Pedro Alexandrino On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. A beautiful still life by a turn of the 20th century Brazilian artist I stumbled across on the Google Art Project. I’ll see if I can dig up more for…
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Kathleen Dunphy
Northern California artist Kathleen Dunphy works both in the studio and on location, but even her studio landscapes have the kind of fresh immediacy often associated with painting on location. In her pursuit of the character of light evocative of particular times of day, seasons and weather conditions, she employs a crisp, direct and painterly…
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Eye Candy for Today: Moran’s Green River Cliffs
Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, Thomas Moran On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The most striking of Moran’s dramatic paintings of the American West —which is saying something. For more, see my post on Thomas Moran.
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Francesco Francavilla
Italian comics artist Francesco Francavilla is known for his cover and interior art for numerous series for the American comics market, to which he brings a wonderful pulp/flim-noir sensibility. In addition to his cover and interior sequential art for various company-owned series, he has attracted attention with his creator-owned series Black Beetle, the visual subject…
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Gustave Doré
When I was growing up, there were several books in the house that helped prompt my interest in art. A couple of them, in particular, impressed me with the power of drawing and printmaking. One was a 1948 edition of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustave Doré; another was a Dover edition of Doré’s…
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E.A. Verdine
Ernie Verdine is an artist from Utah who works primarily in watercolor, and occasionally with gouache and acrylic. He uses a restrained palette, close value relatinships and strong textural elements to give his landscapes a feeling of quiet contemplation.