Month: April 2019
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Eye Candy for Today: Alma Tadema’s In a Rose Garden
In a Rose Garden, Lawrence Alma Tadema Oil on panel; roughly 15 x 20 inches (37 x 50 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons page from which you can access a larger image. This was sold through Christies in 2012, so I assume it’s currently in a private collection. The painter reveled in flowers and…
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The Watercolor World
It’s sometimes easy to forget that painting and drawing once served the function we now assign to photography of recording places and events for reference or posterity. Watercolor, a portable medium that could easily be used for location painting, was a favored vehicle for reportage and documentary subjects. A recently established UK based non-profit project…
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Antonio Segura Donat (Dulk)
Antonio Segura Donat is a Spanish artist who often works under the pseudonym Dulk, which he adopted originally for use as a street artist and muralist. Dulk creates images that blend aspects of magic realism and fantasy, often with themes of animals, and in particular, birds. He works in a variety of traditional media, paint,…