Author: cparker
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Kay Nielsen’s illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon
East of the Sun and West of the Moon is a classic Norwegian book of fairy tales, most famously illustrated in a 1914 edition by the superb Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen. Taschen has just published a new deluxe, slipcased edition of the book. I haven’t personally seen it yet, but judging from other Taschen volumes,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre in Winter
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on their site. This is part of a remarkable series of views of two of the grand boulevards of Paris, painted from a hotel room over the period of three months…
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Mother
Mother is a touching and beautifully realized animated short (5 minutes) about the weight of maintaing a family and household. The film, done in a Japanese influenced style [correction: I’m told the style is Korean], was made by a group of third-year students at Sheridan College. The group, led by Stephanie Chew, calls themselves Studio…
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Mike Wise
Mike Wise is a painter based on Whidby Island in Washington who combines loose, gestural brushwork with dimensionally textural applications of painting knives to achieve a fascinating surface quality. He works with contrasts of roughly formed lost-and-found edges and punctuations of more sharply defined forms to give his work a feeling of subjects emerging from…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Cole’s Architect’s Dream
Architect’s Dream, Thomas Cole Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, which also has an interactive feature on the work. This fantastical combination of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Gothic architectural styles — in the midst of which we find…
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Eoghan Kerrigan
With a name that sounds ideally suited to the genre, Eoghan Kerrigan is an Irish illustrator who focuses on fantasy subjects. His trolls, adventurers, dragons and other characters and mythical creatures are nicely imaginative and wonderfully rendered. He often works in pen and ink with color fill, or pencil with color over. A number of…