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Author: cparker

  • Hector McDonnell

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    Hector McDonnell is an Irish painter whose primary subject appears to be room interiors, from humble to palatial. He approaches these with loose, painterly confidence. In many of his compositions, light through windows is the dominant player, cascading across furnishings and illuminating floors. McDonnell also appears to take delight in complex floor patterns and architectural…

  • Denis Sarazhin (update)

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    Denis Sarazhin is a Ukrainian painter I first wrote about in 2015. His approach to painting plays with color and texture in ways that are visually captivating. Since my last writing, in which I particularly admired his still life subjects, Sarazhin has moved into a concentration on figurative work. However, he often appears to treat…

  • Eye Candy for Today: James Peale miniature portrait

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    Elizabeth Oliphant, James Peale Watercolor on ivory, roughly 3 x 2 inches (7 x 5.8 cm ). Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the late 18th, and through the mid 19th centuries, there was a demand for miniature portraits, both in the U.S. and in Europe. These…

  • Alina Gizatoulin

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    Alina Gizatoulin is a concept artist and designer living in Tel Aviv, Israel. She has a relaxed, cartoony illustration style, with muted color contrasts and subtle textures. Her illustrations of imaginary animals, people and things in between have an appealing visual charm.

  • Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Dort Packet-Boat

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    Dortdrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed, J.M.W. Turner In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. There is also a zoomable image on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. This was painted in 1818, just a few…

  • Reciprocal Museum Membership Programs

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    This is a time of year when many people join or renew art museum memberships, or receive them as gifts. Most art museums offer membership at various levels, each of which comes with perks to encourage the purchase of more expensive membership levels. What’s not always obvious is that some of those levels often include…