Author: cparker
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American Dreaming
American Dreaming is an as yet unreleased documentary on mid 20th century American car design art, the artists and designers who created it and the attempts of art collector Robert Edwards to collect and preserve as much of it as possible. Much of this art was meant to be destroyed by the car manufacturers who…
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“Celebrating Women Artists” at Arcadia Contemporary
Arcadia Contemporary, a gallery in NYC that focuses largely on contemporary art in the representational tradition, has a new show titled “Celebrating Women Artists” in which they are showcasing work by six women artists from among the artists they represent. The show features three painters, two sculptors and a photographer. I’ve featured images of work…
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Eye Candy for Today: H Siddons Mowbray’s Idle Hours
Idle Hours, H. Siddons Mowbray Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Though not in the kind of exotic location common to the Orientalist paintings that were fashionable the time, Mowbray has dressed is models in oriental costume as they languorously…
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Leo Mancini-Hresko (update)
Leo Mancini-Hresko is a painter from Boston who I first wrote about in 2013. He brings his appealingly textural approach to bear on landscape, interiors and still life subjects, in which his controlled use of color and value brings the textural elements to the fore. Mancini-Hresko’s work will be on display in a solo show…
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Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux, Gwenn Germain
Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux (“Girls and Guys from Summits and Skies”) is a remarkable short animation (two and a half minutes) that is the senior project of Gwenn Germain, a student at the French art school Créapole. The film is an overt homage to the work of the brilliant Japanese animator Hayao…
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Paul Chadeisson
Paul Chadeisson is a concept artist and video game developer based in Paris, France. His often mechanically intricate structures and environments demonstrate his ability to project a sense of immense scale and distance — partly with atmospheric perspective and partly with the contrast of foreground and background elements. Many of the pieces on his website…