Author: cparker
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Saturnino Herrán
Though the internet has greatly facilitated the exchange of cultural information between nations in recent decades, there are still large gaps in the general awareness of art between some nations. With the exception of one famous couple, few painters from Mexico are well known here in the U.S. — despite its proximity and rich cultural…
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Noëll Triaureau
Noëlle Triaureau is a visual development artist and art director working with Sony Pictures Animation. Her credits include Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Surf’s Up and the upcoming as yet untitled Smurf movie; but I was particularly struck by images of her beautiful work on Hotel Transylvania, for which she also served as Art…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness landscape study
Landscape Study, George inness On Wikimedia Commons. As far as I can tell, the original is in a private collection. In this small but strikingly beautiful study (9×13 in; 23x33m), we get an uncharacteristic glimpse of Inness wielding the brush. The brief notations of the animals and buildings are remarkable for their naturalistic appearance when…
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Online art supply as a resource for pigment information
This is not a review or endorsement of any online art supplier; I think all of the well known ones are probably fine, and each has their plusses and minuses. This is about a resource that a particular art supplier, Dick Blick, offers as part of their online catalog. When browsing for paints — whether…
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Martin Wittfooth (update)
Martin Wittfooth is a New York based painter who I first wrote about back in 2008. Wittfooth applies his lifelong fascination with classical art to paintings in which animals serve as the subject of sometimes overt, sometimes enigmatic musings on the state of the planet. No humans appear in his paintings, but the influence of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait of Mme. Lethière
Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, roughly 11×9 in (30×22 cm); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image. Another of Ingres’ marvelous pencil portraits in which the delicately attentive portrait is set off by his seemingly casual sketch of…