Author: cparker
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Minh Dam
Originally from Hanoi, Vietnam, Minh Dam is an architect and watercolor painter based in Poland. He is the founder of Lineare Art Studio in Warsaw, and a co-founder of the Polish Watercolor Society. Minh Dam’s primary focus in his paintings is cityscape. He take as his subjects cities in Poland and other parts of Europe,…
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Ken Auster, 1949-2016
California artist Ken Auster started his artistic career with poster and t-shirt graphics in the milieu of 1960s surfing culture. He went on from there to plain air painting, and established his signature subject choices of streetcars, contemporary surfing scenes, California landscapes and restaurant interiors. All were approached with bold brush work, vibrant color and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Isaby crayon portrait
Lady of the Court of Napoléon I, Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Isabey In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, roughly 10×7 in (25×18 cm). Though graphite pencils largely took the place of chalk and crayon in the late 19th century, this beautiful portrait drawing — done at the turn of the 19th century and attributed to court…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s “An Artist in His Studio”
An Artist in His Studio, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many, if not most paintings are not named by the artist, but by subsequent buyers, sellers or scholars. If Sargent named this one (and…
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Jules-Alexandre Grün
Jules-Alexandre Grün was a French painter, illustrator and poster artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Grün painted the social life of paris, dinner parities and grand celebrations, and designed posters for theatre and other events. There is a blog devoted to his poster work, Jules-Alexandre Grün: The Posters, with a bio.…
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Will Harmuth
New Jersey artist William Harmuth paints landscapes and townscapes in both oil and acrylic. In the former, his color is often laid down in thick, brusque passages, giving the surface an almost sculptural character. His acrylics also give the impression of gestural paint application. In the “Traditional” gallery section of his website, you will find…