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Month: October 2014

  • Casey Childs

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    Casey Childs is a painter based in Utah who focuses on portrait and figurative subjects. His approach to paint handling varies from brusque to refined, in keeping with the feeling generated by his subject and composition. Often his figures will be painted in the context of room interiors, in the course of which he also…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s drawing of the Porta Portello

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    The Porta Portello with the Brenta Canal in Padua, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) On Google Art Project, high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Albertina, Vienna. In pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes. Unfortunately, neither the museum or Google Art Project give the dimensions. To me it has the…

  • Mac Conner

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    MacCauley “Mac” Conner is an illustrator noted for his work in the mid-20th century, in particular at the height of his popularity and influence in the 1950s. His style bridged the realism of early 20th century illustration, the flattened, graphic mid-century modern style with which he is most associated, and the more rendered approach of…

  • Sorolla and America in Madrid

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    Sorolla and America is an exhibition of the work of the great Spanish painter related to his travels here in the US. It was organized jointly by the Meadows Museum in Dallas, The San Diego Museum of Art Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid. After its run at the Meadows Museum and the San Diego Museum of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou’s astronomer

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    Astronomer by Candlelight, Gerrit Dou On Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. A small gem (roughly 13×8″, 33x20cm) of 17th century chiaroscuro by an under-appreciated Dutch master. For more, see this page on Essential Vermeer, and my previous Eye Candy post on a Gerrit Dou genre…

  • Joshua Eiten

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    Joshua Eiten’s Tumblr blog states that he is a communication design student at Carnegie Mellon University. If that’s still the case, his age is belied by the strong drawing, accomplished compositions and confident digital rendering of his concept art and illustration pieces. His blog is set in one of those awkward Tumblr arrangements in which…