Month: July 2014
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Comic Book Cartography
Comic Book Cartography is a blog by John Hilgart in which he features maps, charts, diagrams, infographics and — always my favorite — cut-away views from the pages of comics past. [Via Wired]
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The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors at NGA
The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors is a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, DC, in which they are highlighting 15 watercolor and gouache paintings acquired in recent years. Like drawings and other works on paper, watercolors can’t be on permanent display in museums because of their susceptibility to light…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching of Wapping Warf
Wapping Warf, James McNeil Whistler Original is roughly 6×9 inches (15x23cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use download or enlarge icons below image. Another of Whistler’s stellar etchings of riverfront architecture and activity — a beautiful use of line and texture.
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Eva Gonzalès
Eva Gonzalès was a 19th century Franch painter associated with the Impressionist circle. More specifically, after studying with portrait painter Charles Chaplin, she became the only formal pupil of Édouard Manet. Manet’s influence is certainly visible in some of her work. Manet painted a portrait of her in which she is posed as if painting…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hiroshi Yoshida woodblock print
Sekishozan (Shi-shung-shan, South China), Hiroshi Yoshida Large version here. As much as I recognize and admire the influence Japanese printmakers had on European artists, notably the French Impressionists, my favorite synthesis of Japanese and European artistic conventions is found in the woodblock prints of Japanese painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida. There is something about his…
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Xiaodi Jin
Xiaodi Jin is a freelance concept artist based in Bejing, China. Beyond, that, I can find little information, and only a few images. The images that are available, however, are tantalizing — wonderfully atmospheric and textural — and leave me waiting for more. [Via Spectrum Fantastic on Twitter @SFantasticAL]