Year: 2021
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Alexander Rothaug
Alexander Rothaug was an Austrian painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I assume he might be categorized as a Symbolist, which in itself is a loose classification as art styles go. Rothaug seems particularly inspired by dramatic scenes from myths and legends, often populated with stylized, exaggeratedly muscular figures…
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Same Energy – image similarity search with Deep Learning
In my previous post on Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye, I mentioned the “visual search” or “search by image” features of the major search engines, in which a reference image is the basis of the search rather than text. Bing and Google will search first for additional copies of the same…
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Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye
As you might imagine, in the course of writing Lines and Colors I do a fair bit of searching out art images on the web — whenever possible searching for the largest examples of images of artwork that I can find. One of the ways I do this is to use the “image search” features…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giovanni Boldini pastel portrait
Signorina Concha de Ossa, Giovanni Boldini; pastel on prepared canvas, roughly 87 x 47 inches (221 x 120 cm). LInk is to Wikimedia Commons, which sourced the image from a past sale of the painting from Christie’s. I don’t know the location of the original, likely a private collection. Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, who was…
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Artists’ interpretations of Spring
A few paintings of Spring to mark the Vernal Equinox, and for those in the Southern Hemisphere, I’ve included Arthur Streeton’s Autumn (images above, bottom), to celebrate their oncoming season. The inclusion of JW Waterhouse’s Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (images above, second from bottom) prompted me to include the relevant verse from Robert…
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Alex Warnick
Alex Warnick is an artist who specializes in watercolor paintings of birds. Her website portfolio is divided into sections for Painting and Illustration, though her technique seems basically consistent. She combines a naturalistic approach to the birds themselves, setting them off with bits of flora that act as design elements. In addition to her portfolio,…