Month: June 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Bargue’s Bashi-Bazouk
A Bashi-Bazouk, Charles Bargue In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Jean-Léon Gérôme, his contemporary and collaborator in the well known drawing course that bears his name, Bargue’s paintings were often of Orientalist subjects. A Bashi-Bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman Army. Bargue has here rendered the objects with which he is surrounded…
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Sorolla and America in San Diego
Sorolla and America, an exhibition of works by the brilliant Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida — that I reported on in 2013 when it was at the Meadows Museum — is now at the San Diego Museum of Art, where it will be on display until August 26, 2014. Not to be missed. Unfortunately,…
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Dinotopia, First Flight: 20th Anniversary Edition
I received a review copy from Dover Books of James Gurney’s Dinotopia, First Flight: 20th Anniversary Edition, the newest in the series of 20th anniversary editions of Gurney’s contemporary classics. Ostensibly aimed at kids and adolescents, but delightful for adults as coffee-table art books, the series has been getting beautiful “20th Anniversary” treatment at the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Streeton’s Autumn
Autumn, Arthur Streeton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of Ballarat. While those of us in the northern hemisphere have been basking in the vibrant blooming of Spring, our friends in the southern hemisphere have been enjoying the russet browns, ochres and siennas of Autumn. For more on the artist, see my…
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Xiaochen Fu
Xiaochen Fu is a concept artist and illustrator based in Shanghai. He works in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor and digital. He has an interesting approach in which many of his figures and creatures blend into — or are drawn out of — an array of semi-abstract freeform shapes. His website galleries…