Month: August 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Hans Hoffmann’s hare
A Hare in the Forest, Hans Hoffmann On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file (21mb) on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum, which has some background on the painting. Interesting to compare this oil painting by Hoffmann to Durer’s famous watercolor/gouache study of a hare, on which this, and Hoffmann’s own watercolor/gouache study…
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Greg Budwine
Greg Budwine is an illustrator and painter from Texas, whose gallery paintings evoke a sense of contemplative stillness. Working in acrylic, Budwine often chooses deceptively simple subjects, such as a single leaf, from which he constructs sophisticated statements. In many of his pieces, the presumably flat “background”, rich with texture and vibrant color, is as…
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B. Kliban cartoons on the web
Much to my delight, and considerable surprise, GoComics, the online repository of newspaper comics from both Universal and United Media syndicates, has been placing online the wonderfully off-kilter and reality-warping cartoons of B. Kliban. If you’re not familiar with Kliban, it’s worth noting that The Far Side’s Gary Larson, Bizzarro’s Dan Piraro, the New Yorker’s…
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Frank Cadogan Cowper
British painter and illustrator Frank Cadogan Cowper was born a bit late to have been a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but like his contemporaries Henry Payne and Byam Shaw, he took to their style and subject matter so strongly as to be known as a Neo-Pre-Raphaelite (it that’s not an inherently self-contradictory term). Cowper’s work fell into…
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Richard Haas
New York based artist Richard Haas works at a nexus of painting and architecture. He is best known for his large scale murals, many of which use a trompe l’oeil approach that actually changes the perception of the building itself, rather than simply using it as a canvas. He also does the latter, however, presenting…
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Eye Candy for Today: Haseltine Venetian sunset
Santa Maria della Salute, Sunset; William Stanley Haseltine Beautifully Turneresque light in this view of Venice by American landscape painter William Stanley Haseltine. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Via @metmuseum]