Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Ignacio Zuloaga portrait
Portrait of the Countess Mathieu de Noailles (Anna Elisabeth de Brancovan), Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta Link is to page with high resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, brings together the traditions of Spanish…
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Bror Anders Wikstrom
With the exception of the more straightforward watercolor (images above, bottom), the rest of these wild and wonderfully realized watercolor illustrations are designs for New Orleans carnival parade floats from the early part of the 20th century by Swedish/American artist Bror Anders Wikstrom. Wikstrom originally went to sea as a young man, but his career…
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Benjamin Williams Leader
Benjamin Williams Leader was an English landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born Benjamin Leader Williams, but later changed his name to Benjamin Williams Leader to stand out from a number of other painters active at the same time with the last name of Williams. Benjamin Leader’s father,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Anders Zorn portrait of Freida Schiff
Frieda Schiff, Anders Zorn In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given the relatively weak greens in the curtain and background, I suppose it’s possible this was painted with Zorn’s famously eponymous palette. The “Zorn Palette”, with which the Swedish artist is presumed to have painted many (though certainly not all) of his…
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Fred Augis
Fred Augis is a concept artist and illustrator based in Rennes, France. His gaming credits include titles like Prey, Life is Strange, Remember Me and Strike Vector. His online example art includes character design, and in particular, numerous spacesuit designs. These range from realistically rendered to nicely graphic and gestural.
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlo Crivelli’s Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli Tempera on panel, 60 x 19 inches (152 x 49 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This beautifully realized late Gothic work (painted in 1480) is as much decorative object as it is representational image. I love how stylized it is, from the intricately rendered strands of hair to the…