Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Greuze’s Broken Vessel
The Broken Vessel (La Cruche cassée), Jean-Baptiste Greuze Link is to downloadble large file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Louvre. Though the actual meaning is open to interpretation, the general assumption is that the allegorical subject suggested by the gathered flower petals and broken vase is one of lost innocence and defloration. Greuze…
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Franz Xaver Hoch
Franz Xaver Hoch was a German landscape painter and printmaker active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His dramatic compositions are often cast is subtle, almost melancholy light. Unfortunately, I can find few images sources for Hoch, and little in the way of biographical information — most of that on German language sites.
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Eye Candy for Today: James Montgomery Flagg ink illustration
She Sailed Majestically Past the Wretch, Followed Meekly by Septimus, James Montgomery Flagg Pen and ink, roughly 22×29 inches (56×74 cm); original is in the Norman Rockwell Museum, larger here; also slightly larger zoomable version on Google Art Project, and downloadable version of that image on Wikimedia Commons. It looks as though the Google Art…
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Derek Theodore Davis
Landscape painter Derek Theodore Davis takes advantage of textural paint application and indistinct edges to give his work a pleasing unity. This also allows him to craft bold, geometric compositions, often with light cascading through a scene in angular paths. I particularly like his winter scenes of show-covered paths and fields, in which these elements…
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Eye Candy for Today: Osman Bey still life
Flowers in a White Vase, Osman Hamdi Bey Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum. European-trained Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey — who was active in the late 19th and early 20th century — gives us a delicately realized still life…
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Rudy Siswanto
Rudy Siswanto is a concept artist, character designer and illustrator based in Surabaya, Indonesia. Many of his illustrations and character designs feature animals, some anthropomorphized, many variations of real animals and many others from the realm of pure fantasy. I enjoy his feeling for texture, and the use of strategic lighting to emphasize the textural…