Month: June 2020
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Portraits of the artist’s father
Some portraits of artist’s fathers. (Images above, [links are to relevant Lines and Colors posts]: Albrecht Durer, Pablo Picasso, William Macgregor Paxton, M.C. Escher, Maarten van Heemskerck, Laura Knight, Nikolai Fechin, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jules Bastien Lepage)
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Eye Candy for Today: Summer Bloom by Joaquim Vayreda
Summer Bloom by Joaquim Vayreda, roughly 52 x 104 inches (130 x 263 cm). Link is to Google Art Project; downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. We can start the summer with this beautifully idyllic pastoral scene by 19th century Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda. The wide…
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Negative Space stop-motion animation
Negative Space is a touching and beautifully realized stop-motion animated short by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter. It focuses on a father and son who bond over the way to properly pack a suitcase. My link is to the short hosted on Cartoon Brew, which is where I encountered the film. There is also a…
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Robert S. Duncanson
Robert S. Duncanson might be the most significant American landscape painter you never heard of. There is even some confusion about his name and the national origin of his father. Referred to by critics in the early part of the 19th century as the “best landscape painter in the west”, Duncanson spent much of his…
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James Ransome
James E. Ransome is an award winning American illustrator of children’s books, with over 60 books — as well as murals, posters editorial illustration and gallery paintings — to his name. He has been awarded the Coretta Scott King and NAACP Image awards, and was named one of 75 authors and illustrators everyone should know…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henry Tanner’s Flight Into Egypt
Flight Into Egypt, Henry Ossawa Tanner Oil on canvas, roughly 29 x 26 inches (74 x 66 cm). Link is to a reasonably large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Metropolitian Museum of Art As he did in many of his biblically themed canvasses, Tanner brings to bear his uncanny touch with light…