Month: January 2015
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Innokenty Korshunov
Innokenty Korshunov is a painter living and working just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Korshunov studied at the School of Art in Odessa, where he developed an admiration for the art of the Renaissance, as well as a respect for traditional techniques. He brings these sensibilities, as well as a keen eye and subtle sense of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of The Empress Eugénie
The Empress Eugénie, Franz Xaver Winterhalter In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download links below the image on their page. The painting’s finished feeling, when viewed from the proper distance, belies the painterly, almost casual and sketch-like handling when seen in detail.
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Sterling Hundey (update 2015)
Sterling Hundey is an illustrator and gallery artist who I first wrote about back in 2007. Hundley has recently unveiled a redesigned website. At the moment it focuses on three projects, but since I last featured Hundely in 2010, he has also established a Behance portfolio and deviantART gallery on which you can find additional…
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot pencil drawing
Young man in Front of a Great Oak, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Graphite on tan paper, highlighted with white gouache, roughly 11 x 16 inches (39 x 29 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Corot’s precise and economical…
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Arthur Haas
Arthur Haas is a concept artist and illustrator living and working in the Netherlands. His website, which is essentially a front door for his blog, is light on biographical information, but has lots of his fascinating images. Haas incorporates a multitude of imaginative freeform shapes into his compositions, both in the alien-looking environments and the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre: Mardi Gras
Boulevard Montmartre: Mardi Gras, Camille Pissarro Image on WikiArt. Original is in the Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a larger version of this image. Though different in many ways — a different boulevard, a different season, and certainly a different kind of procession — I couldn’t help but think of this…