Month: June 2015
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Eye Candy for Today: Edwin Austin Abbey scene from Shakespeare
“King Lear”, Act I, Scene I; Edwin Austin Abbey In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use zoom link or download arrow under image. Also, larger, somewhat brighter image on Wikimeda Commons. Usually the Met’s images are pretty accurate, but I happen to like the one from Wikimedia Commons a little better in this case, so…
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Luigi Loir
I’ve written previously about three of the four late 19th and early 20th century painters whose styles are sometimes called “Parisianism”, or more simply “Painters of Paris”, Eugéne Galien Laloue, Edouard-Léon Cortès and Antoine Blanchard. Never a formal group, these were just painters working in slightly different times, with similar intentions and shared influences. They…
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Comfort Tiffany gouache sketch
Woodland Interior, Louis Comfort Tiffany Watercolor and gouache on tan paper, roughly 16×22″ (40x56cm), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. James Gurney has a nice post on his blog today about some of his favorite gouache Masters, which prompted me to think of a few artists who did beautiful work in gouache, though they were…
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Peter “Pete the Street” Brown
Peter brown is British painter, whose dedication to location painting and penchant for working in all manner of weather conditions, often in the streets in the midst of the bustle of city activity, has earned him the nickname of “Pete the Street”. Brown paints in his home base of Bath in southwestern England, and on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rose Adélaïde Ducreux self portrait
Self portrait with a Harp, Rose Adélaïde Ducreux In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download arrow under the image for larger version. Rose Adélaïde Ducreux, who studied with her father, painter Joseph Ducreux, here portrays herself with a harp and in a luxuriously finessed gown that dominates the work. I suspect that, like…
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Noah Bradley
Noah Bradley is a concept artist and illustrator, known in particular for his work on the “Magic: The Gathering” card-based games. A number of the works on his website are from an ambitious personal project, titled “The Sin of Man”, which also has a dedicated website. You can find additional work in his deviantART gallery.…