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Month: November 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Heade’s meadows

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    Newburyport Meadows, Martin Johnson Heade In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Heade’s luminous view of a meadow after a storm is not as large as you might assume from the reproductions; it’s 10 inches high by 22 wide ( 27 x 56 cm). See my post on Martin Johnson Heade.

  • Sean Farrell

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    Largely self-taught, and inspired by numerous trips to Italy and the Netherlands where he studied paintings of the masters in museums and churches wherever possible, American painter Sean Farrell brings his fascination with 17th Italian and Dutch painters to play in his luminous, richly hued still life subjects. Farrell makes wonderful use of chiaroscuro in…

  • Tomek Sętowski

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    Tomek Sętowski is a contemporary Polish painter, who would be most readily classified as a magic realist. His compositions are often filled with cascades of multiple objects, figures and architectural structures. In many cases, he portrays objects or figures composed of other objects. His color palate ranges from subdued and almost monochrome to broad arrays…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pieter de Hooch interior

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    Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard, Pieter de Hooch In the Rijskmuseum. This is another of Pieter de Hooch’s marvelous “keyhole paintings”, in which we are not only invited to enter the painting, but to effectively pass through it — first in the form of the window behind the women, which offers a glimpse…

  • Nurö (Herve Groussin)

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    Nurö is the professional name used by gaming industry concept artist and illustrator Hervé Groussin. Groussin’s website is divided into sections for corporate, personal and published (illustration), and you can find additional examples of his work on hie deviantART gallery. Groussin applies his moody, atmospheric and viscerally textural style to both science fiction subjects and…

  • Bill Cone

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    Bill Cone is a visual development and background artist for Pixar Animation Studios, and is also a dedicated plein air pastel painter. There is often some question about whether pastel is “drawing” or “painting”. It can be either, of course (or even both simultaneously), but I think the distinction has more to do with handling…