Month: November 2017
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Peter Fiore (update)
Peter Fiore is a painter based in northeastern Pennsylvania, who I first profiled back in 2012. Fiore often takes his fascination with light — particularly the horizontal light of early and late in the day — into the woods, where he seeks rhythm and balance in the intricate patterns formed by the trunks of trees…
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Eye Candy for Today: James Jebusa Shannon’s Jungle Tales
Jungle Tales, James Jebusa Shannon In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the Download or Enlarge links under the image. American artist James Jebusa Shannon, who spent most of his career in England, here presents an intimate scene of his wife reading to their daughter and one of her friends. “Jungle Tales”…
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George Sotter: Light and Shadow
As much as I admire the original French Impressionists, I’m frequently even more drawn to the work of the American Impressionists, who, though not part of a formal movement, took elements of the impressionist approach and applied them to their own unique vision, resulting in a wonderful variety of painterly realism. A subset of American…
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Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Venus and Mars
Venus and Mars, Sandro Botticelli Link is to a high resolution downloadble file on Wikipedia, the original is in the National Gallery, London, which has a zoomable version of the image. Two of Botticelli’s paintings, La Primavera and The Birth of Venus, are among the most iconic and recognized in the history of art. Other…
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Hugo Puzzuoli
Hugo Puzzuoli is a concept artist who is originally from France, and now based in Quebec City, Canada. His blog features some of his professional work, such as his concepts for Assasin’s Creed Syndicate, and his Artstation portfolio features more of his personal projects. In his personal work, Puzzuoli often takes bright, appealingly graphic approach…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt lion drawing
Lion Resting, Turned to the Left; Rembrandt van Rijn Pen and brown ink, brown wash; roughly 5 1/2 x 8 inches (14 x 20cm). Link is to WikiArt, which has a downloadable file (choose “Original, 1600×1067”); there is also a cropped version on Wikipedia. The original is supposed to be in the Louvre, Paris, but…