Month: January 2017
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Jesper Ejsing (update)
Jesper Ejsing is a Danish fantasy illustrator living in Copenhaen. When I last wrote about Ejsing in 2013, it didn’t seem like he was updating his web presence frequently. Since then, he’s been adding more of his wonderfully wild illustration to his website, Artstation portfolio, and the group blog, Muddy Colors, where he is one…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour – Still Life with Carafe, Flowers and Fruit
Still Life with a Carafe, Flowers and Fruit; Henri Fantin-Latour Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Somewhat larger than most of Fantin-Latour’s still lifes, this is a prime example of his beautiful approach. Most striking here, I…
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Henry Ossawa Tanner (update)
Henry Ossawa Tanner was a superb American painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who I first wrote about in 2012. Since then, I’m happy to report, online resources for viewing his work have expanded considerably, notably on The Athenaeum and Wikimedia Commons. You can find additional resources through Artcyclopedia and on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s Porta Portello, Padua
The Porta Portello, Padua; Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Another architectural tour-de-force by the 18th century Italian master Canaletto – times two. The painting above in the top six images is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. In the bottom four images is another version, with the same perspective but with different figures and harsher…
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James C. Christensen, 1942-2017
James C. Christensen, a highly regarded illustrator and gallery artist who worked in the vein of fantasy, spiritual inspiration, and works tinged with the flavor of Renaissance portraits, died on January 8, 2017. Though there is a jameschristensen.com, it’s a commercial gallery’s site, and the images are watermarked (though not terribly so). A better source…
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Framed Perspective, Marcos Mateu-Mestre
Just to put things in… context, the history of graphical perspective goes back further, but the system of geometric perspective we use today can be traced to an important point in the beginning of the 15th century, when Filippo Brunelleschi — the brilliant Renaissance architect and designer who solved the seemingly intractable problem of spanning…