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Author: cparker

  • Zezhou Chen

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    Zezhou Chen is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator working for the gaming industry. His subjects are usually of fantasy or science fiction themes. The latter includes a nicely retro-future piece that is part of a group project called “Retro“. His website includes galleries of his work for book covers, games and various personal projects.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Krøyer’s Luncheon

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    A luncheon. The artist, his wife and the writer Otto Benzon, Peder Severin Krøyer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen. Group portrait, self portrait, room interior or still life — Kroyer’s simple but beautifully painted domestic scene works brilliantly in…

  • Stepan Kolesnikoff (Kolesnikov)

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    I came across the work of Stephan Fedorovich Kolesnikoff (alternately spelled Kolesnikov or Kolesnykov) while poking through some Russian language blogs, and had a “Woah! Who is this?” reaction. After searching up a bit more of his work, Kolesnikoff immediately went on my list of favorite artists who work in gouache. Though he also did…

  • Yap Kun Rong

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    Yap Kun Rong is a concept artist and illustrator originally from Singapore and currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. His credits in the gaming industry include Metal Gear Rising, Wonderful 101, and Bayonetta 2. He has also worked in comics for companies like Avalon Studios and Radical Publishing. I particularly like his choice of…

  • Superbowl art bet 2015: Bierstadt and Homer

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    In what has become a fledgling tradition — started in 2010 at the suggestion of Modern Art Notes writer Tyler Green — major museums from the two regions of the U.S. competing in this years Superbowl have engaged in an art loan wager. Each museum wagers a three month loan of a major artwork from…

  • Jakub Rozalski

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    Jakub Rozalski is a Polish concept artist and illustrator based in Krakow. His work, particularly in a series involving mecha in the context of rural farms, is particularly interesting for the way it combines sci-fi concepts with naturalistic landscape rendering. Though primarily digital, Rozalski’s landscapes and machines have a wonderfully painterly feeling. In many cases,…