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Month: September 2016

  • Kyuong Hwan Kim (Tahra Art)

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    Kyuong Hwan Kim is a Korean concept artist and illustrator, who works under the name of Tahra Art. Kyuong Hwan’s work is something of a mixed bag for me. Some of it falls under the heading of fairly typical anime influenced pin-up art, an insular style that is overly abundant these days, while other pieces…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Vogel von Vogelstein’s Young Lady with Drawing Utensils

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    Young Lady with Drawing Utensils, Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Though it has the deliberate composition and appearance of a Renaissance portrait, this painting by the German portraitist drew on all his 19th century…

  • “Secret Life of Trees”, Dina Brodsky

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    Dina Brodsky is a painter and miniaturist who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. In July of last year, she embarked on a project to draw 126 individual drawings of trees, each with its own distinct personality — tree portraits, if you will — starting with the drawing shown above, top, and ending…

  • Maya Brodsky

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    Originally from Minsk, Belarus, Maya Brodsky studied here in the U.S. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the New York Academy of Art. Her paintings focus on interiors and figures. At times they seem direct portrayals of everyday scenes, at other times they can be somewhat haunting, as if something is slightly amiss, but…

  • Shiro Kasamatsu

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    Shiro Kasamatsu was a Japanese painter, print designer and printmaker active in the 20th century. Though he initially studied with Kaburagi Kiyokata —a master of the bijin-ga movement, which focused on figurative subjects — Kasamatsu chose landscape as his primary subject. Kasamatsu is known particularly for his delicately finessed portrayals of rain, mist, snow and…

  • Willem Maris

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    Willem Maris was a 19th century Dutch painter whose subjects were primarily pastoral scenes of cattle and fowl, though he also painted figurative subjects. Though his choice of themes remained with him through his career, his approach to painting changed — from straightforward realism to experiments with bold color to the kind of painterly brushwork…