Month: June 2021
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Eye Candy for Today: Homer’s A Basket of Clams
A Basket of Clams, Winslow Homer, watercolor and gouache, roughly 11 x 10 inches (29 x 25 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image available. The museum lists the materials of this early watercolor by Homer as simply “watercolor on wove paper”.…
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Nicholas Kole
Nicholas Kole is an illustrator and concept artist based in Vancouver, BC. His clients include Disney, Dreamworks, Hasbro, EA Games/Waystone, Riot, Axis, ReelFX, Mattel, 38 Studios and Spiritwalk Games, among others. Kole’s style is energetic and cartoony, with just enough rendering to give his characters an appealing dimensional aspect. For the past few years, he…
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Eye Candy for the Summer Solstice: Walter Moras, Summer Idyll
Summer Idyll (Sommeridylle), Walter Moras, oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 47 inches (80 x 120 cm) Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons that offers a large file; I don’t know the location of the original. German landscape painter Walter Moras (active n the late 19th and early 20th centuries) gives us a…
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More portraits of artists’ fathers
More portraits of artists’ fathers. For more see my previous post: Portraits of the artist’s father. (Images above, [links are to relevant Lines and Colors posts]: Ilya Repin, Herbert Drouais, Jenny Fay, Anna Klumpke, Andrew James, Paul Cezanne, Antonio Mancini, Marcel Duchamp, John Singer Sargent)
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Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti graphite portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 29 cm). In the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image on their site. I’m intrigued, in this drawing, by the Art-Nouveau influenced curves of the outlines, and…
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Eugen Bracht
During his career, German landscape painter Eugen Bracht traversed the styles of Romanticism, Symbolism and Impressionism. Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Bracht was known primarily for his intensely moody coastal landscapes — in particular one titled The Shore of Oblivion (images above, top, with two detail crops) that was considered a…