Month: November 2014
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Noah Klocek
Noah Klocek is an art director, production designer and concept artist for the film industry, who has worked for companies like Industrial Light & Magic, PDI/DreamWorks, and Pixar Animation Studios. His film credits include titles like Wall-e, Up and Brave. Much of his production work embodies some of the best characteristics of children’s book illustration…
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Eye Candy for Today: Panini’s Interior of the Pantheon
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome; Giovanni Paolo Panini In the National Gallery of Art, DC. Panini has used false perspective here to show more of the interior and the spectacular dome than would be possible otherwise, though from my recollection of my one visit some years ago, I’d say he’s also made the building feel…
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Naoto Hattori (update)
Naoto Hattori studied graphic design in his native Japan, and illustration here in the U.S. at the School of Visual Arts in NY. Hattori’s work carries some elements common to pop surrealism conventions, and some in common with visionary art, but I most enjoy those pieces in which he explore his own themes — in…
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Olga Wisinger-Florian
Austrian painter Olga Wisinger-Florian originally trained for a career as a concert pianist, but changed to painting in a style influenced by Impressionism. She painted primarily floral still life and landscapes, many of the latter with floral themes.
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Eye Candy for Today: Adriaen Ysenbrandt’s The Magdalen in a Landscape
The Magdalen in a Landscape, Adriaen Ysenbrandt In the National Gallery, London. Also on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Painted in the early 16th century, this delicately rendered devotional piece features a truly strange landscape, including a scene within a scene in which Mary is shown reading in a rather bizarre little…
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Inga Moore
British illustrator Inga Moore moved with her family to Australia when she was eight, but a fondness for the English countryside never left her, as she grew up reading books with British illustrators. When she returned to England as an adult, and after a time working in various positions in London, she moved out to…