Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Bellini’s Feast of the Gods
The Feast of the Gods, Giovanni Bellini and Titian Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files (the larger of which requires a free login account). Venetian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini‘s last great painting was…
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Wilbert Sweet
Wilbert Sweet is a concept artist and matte painter based in Montreal, where he is currently working with Behaviour Interactive. Sweet is at an early point in his career, and most of the work in his online portfolio appears to be from personal projects. I often find personal projects from concept artists are more interesting…
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Deborah Walker
UK watercolor painter Deborah Walker often takes as her subjects the dramatic rock and chalk cliffs of the southern coast of England. In doing so, she uses the open whites to great advantage in portraying the shimmer of light across water and the craggy surfaces of the chalk walls. Her other favored subjects also frequently…
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Valentin Serov at the Tretyakov Gallery
Though not as well known in Western Europe and the US as some of his contemporaries, Russian painter Valentin Aleksandrovitch Serov is well known and much admired in his home country — so much so that a show of his work currently at the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow has hosted record crowds, and even suffered…
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot painting of Castel Sant’Angelo
The Bridge and Castel Sant’Angelo with the Cupola of St. Peters, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Link is to WikiArt, large version here; original is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Leigon of Honor). Corot painted in several styles through his career, but this is an example of my favorite type of approach on his part.…
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Artur Sadlos
Artur Sadlos is a concept artist, illustrator and art director based in Poland and working in the gaming industry. His projects include For Honor, Total War: Warhammer, Halo 5, Batman Dark Flight and Dead Island. Though his ability to display work from some of his professional projects is apparently limited by rights agreements, the work…