Month: May 2014
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Mukesh Singh (update)
When I wrote about Indian comics artist and illustrator Mukesh Singh back in 2011, I was only aware of his work on one major project, Grant Morrison’s 18 Days, but that was enough to impress me with his wonderfully lavish and over the top style, that combined western and Indian traditional sensibilities. Since then, Singh…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlsen roses
Still Life with Yellow Roses, Emil Carlsen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which doesn’t appear to have an image online. I wish more of Carlsen’s beautifully painterly still life paintings were available in high resolution. For now, I’ll just be glad…
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Sargent watercolors at MFA, Houston
Just a note for those in the Houston, Texas area that a beautiful exhibition of over 100 watercolors by one of the greatest masters of the medium, John Singer Sargent, is still at the Museum of Fine Arts until May 26, 2014. I saw the version of the exhibit that was at the Brooklyn Museum…
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Tim Foley (update)
Tim Foley is a long-established freelance illustrator based in Michigan, who I profiled back in 2009. His clients include The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, Barrons, Penguin Books, Harper Collins and Dover Publications, among others. Though he also works in paint, pastel and other drawing media, Foley’s primary medium is colored scratchboard. Scratchboard often invites…
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Trailers for Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner is an upcoming film — recently debuted at Cannes, and set for release in the fall of 2014 — based on the last 25 years in the life of the renowned British “painter of light”, JMW Turner. The film is directed by Mike Leigh, who has apparently wanted to do a film on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Rotterdam Ferry-Boat
Rotterdam Ferry-Boat, Joseph Mallord William Turner In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC A great example of Turner’s textural paint handling and dramatic command of light and atmosphere.