Author: cparker
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Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery 2015
Women Painting Women is the title and subject of a group show at the RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY, that runs from October 10 to November 4, 2015. The large example images on the gallery’s own website are watermarked to an extent that renders them essentially pointless. However, there is a selection of unmarked…
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Craig Drake
Craig Drake is an artist and designer who worked for a long time at Lucasfilm. He has recently created a series of posters of characters from Star Wars, as well as other movies and aspects of pop culture. These are rendered in a sleek, minimalist style, with precise but fluid lines and flat areas of…
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Gherardo Cibo’s 16th century watercolor illustrations of medicinal herbs
De Materia Medica is a Greek manual on herbal medicine written by Pedanius Dioscorides in the first century. It was re-issued in the 16th century in an expanded version with annotations by Italian physician Pietro Andrea Mattioli. This version featured illustrations by the artist Gherardo Cibo, who was noted for his interest in botany and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer’s waterfalls
Pistil Mawddach, North Wales; watercolor and gouache, Yale Center for British Art; The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales, oil, Tate, Britain; Samuel Palmer Though both are striking, I find 19th century artist Samuel Palmer’s watercolor and gouache study of this dramatic landscape even more compelling than his finished oil. The watercolor is 17×21 inches (44x53cm),…
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Fenghua Zhong
Fenghua Zhong is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator whose wild exaggerations of human and animal forms can be so over-the-top it sometimes takes a moment to focus on what is happening in his compositions, giving them something of a slow reveal. His command of atmospheric perspective can give the staging of his figures a…
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David Bottini
Landscape painter David Bottini uses the signature “Gabriel” on his paintings as a tribute to his grandfather, who inspired in him the love of the natural world that he brings to his intricate and richly colored landscapes. Bottini appears to relish the complexity of forest interior scenes, with myriad leaves and branches revealed in dappled…