Month: September 2014
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Gobelins graduating student animations 2014
Each year for the past 9 years, I’ve been highlighting the annual series of student short animations from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris, that are used as introductions for the daily events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in the spring. I’ve been lax, however, in pointing out the…
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Charles Muench
Nevada painter Charles Muench primarily paints landscape and figures, sometimes combining the two in paintings of figures or portraits in the landscape. Some of these take on the subject of nude figures wading in the shallow water of streams, in obvious admiration for the work of Swedish master Anders Zorn. Muench also shows his respect…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canal scene by Jan van der Heyden
Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the old Haarlemmersluis, Jan van der Heyden In the Rijksmuseum. Van der Heyden combined views of two different locations in Amsterdam — one of the canal and lock, another of the row of houses — to create his composition.
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Eye Candy for Today: Richard Wilson chalk drawing
The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi, Richard Wilson On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Noted 18th century landscape painter Richard Wilson, who spent much of his time in Italy, gives us a beautifully direct observation of a tree at…
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ImageS Magazine 13 released
Back in May of this year, I wrote about the effort to publish The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS #13. Long time publisher and classic illustration enthusiast Jim Vadeboncoeur was looking to KickStarter to raise the funds to publish the the ultimate issue of his 13 year labor of love, with a fantastic selection of classic…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charlemont’s Moorish Chief
The Moorish Chief, Eduard Charlemont On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There is the commonly encountered color discrepancy between the Google Art Project version and the Philadelphia Museum’s online version. In this case, I think the museum got it right, and the Google…