Author: cparker
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Shinji Tsuchimochi’s 100 Views of Tokyo
The name of Japanese illustrator Shinji Tsuchimochi’s series of drawings, “100 Views of Tokyo“, is of course a reference to the well known series of 19th century woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (AKA Tokyo). Tsuchimochi’s colorful, sometimes straightforward but often fanciful drawings of his home city owe as much…
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Eye Candy for Today: François-Louis Français landscape
A Stream through a Dense Forest, François-Louis Français Watercolor and gouache with pen and ink; roughly 18×14″ (46x34cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has a zoomable version as well as downloadable images (free registration required for largest file size). This…
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“Made in California” at Arcadia Contemporary
Arcadia Contemporary, a long-time bastion of representational art in New York’s SoHo gallery district, has just moved to Santa Monica California. They are opening their first exhibition there with a group show of seven artists they represent who are based in California. “Made in California” opens tomorrow, Saturday April 2, 2016 with an opening reception…
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Eye Candy for Today: Romà Ribera’s De soirée
De soirée (“Evening”), Romà Ribera Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona. Beautifully economical and richly painterly, Ribera’s portrayal of a young woman engaged in simple activity is a quiet captured moment. It’s interesting to…
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Forms in Nature
Forms in Nature is an animated short film (2 minutes) in which natural and man-made forms are compared and contrasted within a carefully constrained and artfully orchestrated set of design parameters. Largely focused on a central circle, the most basic of geometric forms, the images follow one another, often in shared screen transitions, in a…
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Michael Workman
Utah based artist Michael Workman uses soft edges, rough shapes and muted value contrasts to cast his depictions of the plains, mountains and farmland of his home state in a quiet, poetic naturalism. His compositions, which sometimes walk the line between abstraction and representation, are often strongly geometric, perhaps owing in part to his early…