Month: November 2025
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Stan Manoukian
Stan Manoukian is a French illustrator, cartoonist, designer and storyboard artist. Alongside his other projects, Manoukian is an inveterate monster enthusiast. The tagline for his website is ” Monster lover since 1969″. His monsters and be cute or spooky and are often both simultneously. They are rendered with precision and enthusiasm in pencil, pen, duotone…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan
Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew), John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, 58 x 36 inches (147 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. The Morgan Library’s collection centers on rare books and manuscripts and a fantastic collection of old master drawings, but it does…
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Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art
Anton Seder was an illustrator, designer, art teacher and art school director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who worked in a style that combined Art Nouveau, naturalism and perhaps a touch of magic realism. The Animal in Decorative Art was a design resource, one of many published in the late 19th…
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Eye Candy for Today: – Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol) by Lluís Masriera
Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol), by Lluís Masriera i Rosés; oil on canvas, roughly 35 x 51 in. (90 x 131 cm); Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Spanish painter Lluís Masriera, who was active in the late 19th snd early 20th centuries,…