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  • Władysław Czachórski

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    Władysław Czachórski was a Polish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century. Though he also painted still life, landscapes and other subjects, Czachórski was known primarily for his portraits and genre paintings of women, dressed in finery and expressively posed among flowers and elegant furnishings. These were rendered with academic realism and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Conrad Martens landscape

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    One of the falls on the Apsley, Conrad Martens Watercolor and gouache, 18 x 24 inches (66 x 46 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Their image is zoomable, even though they don’t give a visible indication to that effect — click on their image to enlarge. There is also a…

  • Amanda Sage

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    Amanda Sage is a visionary artist whose intricately patterned compositions are meant to represent states of awareness or inner visions as opposed to ordinary perception of the visual world. Sage studied with Michael Fuchs, and his father Ernst Fuchs, a well-known pioneer of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and a mentor to the contemporary…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Dürer’s Large Piece of Turf

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    The Large Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted to board, roughly 16 x 12 inches (41 x 31 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Albertina, Vienna. For its small size and unassuming subject, this painting ranks among…

  • Thomas Bossard

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    Thomas Bossard is a French painter, illustrator, muralist and stage set designer. His paintings have a lively, cartoon-like charm and wry humor that reminds me of idiosyncratic cartoonists and illustrators like Ronald Searle and Edward Sorel. Bossard paints in oil on panel, and I find the surface texture of his approach contributes greatly to the…

  • Billyo O’Donnell

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    Billyo O’Donnell is a Missouri painter whose recent work, in addition to being painterly and color rich, is often highly textural. I’ve had O’Donnell on my list of artists to cover on Lines and Colors for some time (it’s a long list), and his style has evolved since I first encountered his work. His newer…