Author: cparker
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Johan Krouthén
As was discussed in the comments on my recent post about Thomas Fearnley, the Scandinavian countries seem to have produced a disproportionately high number of wonderful landscape painters. Johan Krouthén was a Swedish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Juan de Espinosa still life
Still Life with Grapes, Apples and Plums, Juan de Espinosa In the collection of the Museo del Prado, which offers a downloadable as well as zoomable version of the image. There is also a somewhat larger downloadable version of the image on Wikimedia Commons, but I think the color on the museum’s image is likely…
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Nico Delort & Teagan White at Gallery Nucleus
Beautiful work by Nico Delort and Teagan White — both of whom I have featured previously on Lines and Colors — is currently on display at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA until March 5, 2017. Many of the originals have already sold, but some pieces are still available. If you’re not familiar with these artists,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres portrait of Madame Félix Gallois
Madame Félix Gallois, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, with touches of cold highlighting the jewelry, roughly 14 x 11 in. (35 x 27 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom links under the image on their site. Another of Ingres’ beautiful and deceptively simple graphite…
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Thomas Fearnley
Thomas Fearnley was a 19th century Norwegian painter who specialized in landscapes. He painted many of his works in Italy, particularly along the beautiful Amalfi coast in places like Sorrento and Capri. He was also an accomplished printmaker and produced very appealing lithographs and etchings of landscape scenes. His subjects ranged from grand and dramatic…
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Pablo Carpio
Pablo Carpio is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Madrid, Spain. He has worked for Ubisoft Montreal and MPC and his work has been featured in publications like ImagineFX and 2DArtist. A number of the pieces on his online portfolio are Star Wars themed and were apparently done as part of an ILM…