Year: 2021
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Not the Usual Van Goghs #4
In making decisions about what images they will show, art directors, publishers, reproduction print makers, and even museums, will often limit themselves to the most popular images in an artist’s oeuvre, particularly when dealing with very popular artists. This leads to a condition I think of as the “Greatest Hits” syndrome; publishers don’t want to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Woman on a Sofa
Woman on a Sofa, thined oil paint with touches of pastel over graphite, roughly 19 x 17″ (49 x 43 cm). Link is to image on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. The Met’s page for the piece indicates that it was not a preliminary work for another…
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Arvid Mauritz Lindström
Arvid Mauritz Lindström was a Swedish landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied in Stockholm, Munich and Paris and lived in England for a number of years. His landscapes are richly textural and atmospherically evocative of time and place.
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Eye Candy for Today: still life from the Roman School
Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge, Roman School, I have seen this beautiful still life at times attributed to Caravaggio (Michelangelo Marisi), or to a follower of his. Sotheby’s made no such direct claim when the painting passed through their auction house in 2013, referring to it instead as attributed to an unnamed…
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Justin Gerard (update)
Justin Gerard is an illustrator based in Georgia who works in the publishing, gaming and film industries. I first profiled him in 2009, and pointed out my admiration for his richly imaginative dragons. Since then, in the midst of his other work, he has been creating a series of equally imaginative “Monster of the Month”…
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Eye Candy for Today: Max Klinger’s At the Gate
At the Gate (Am Thor), Max Klinger; etching and engraving; roughy 18 x 12″ (45 x 31 cm). Link is to the impression the collection of the National Gallery, DC, whih has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the image (and no longer requires an account to download high-res images). There is also a…