Author: cparker
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Marie Spartali Stillman (update)
Marie Spartali Stillman was a Pre-Raphaelite painter, notably the most well known of the women painters among that group, as well as a model for several of the other painters in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Stillman studied with the renowned Victorian painter Ford Madox Brown, who was not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but was…
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Batz
Batz is an animated short (6 min) by Max Maleo & Aurélien Prédal. The animation is done with a CGI process known generally as “cel shading” or “toon shading”, in which the normally 3-D appearance of CG animation is given a look more like 2-D hand drawing by the use of gradients and flat areas…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Dance Lesson
The Dance Lesson, Edgar Degas In the National Gallery of Art, DC. Downloadable high-res file on Wikipedia, as well as a descriptive page. This wonderfully brushy oil painting — that has some of the textural feeling of the artist’s pastels — is the first of a series of works on the theme of ballet dancers…
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Rowland Hilder
Born in the U.S. to British parents, Rowland Hilder moved to England with his family at the age of 10, studied at Goldsmith’s College School of Art — where he eventually returned as a professor of drawing — and went on to become one of the UK’s most popular watercolor artists of the 20th century.…
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Tang Wei Min (update)
Tang Wei Min is a Chinese painter from YongZhou, Hunan Province. He studied at the Art Department of Hunan Standard College and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He has received notice and awards in China, the U.S. and Canada. I first wrote about Tang’s work back in 2008. At the time, I noted that…
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John Bauer (update)
John Bauer was a Swedish illustrator and painter, active around the turn of the 20th century, who I first wrote about back in 2006. Since then, I’m happy to report, resources for images of his charming, wonderfully realized illustrations have become more widely available. Though not as well known outside of Sweden as some of…