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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan Adam Kruseman portrait

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    Portrait of Alida Christina Assink, Jan Adam Kruseman In the Rijksmuseum. Nicely refined and deftly handled society portrait by a 19th century Dutch painter, working in many ways in the style of popular English portrait paintings of the time.

  • John McCartin

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    Though his subjects indlude still life and figures, Australian artist John McCartin focuses primarily on landscape, and is particularly adept in his portrayals of the large gnarled gum trees found in Australia. These provide ideal subjects for McCartin’s deft handling of light, texture and atmosphere, their light colored trunks striking in sunlight against the darker…

  • Samuel Gomez

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    New York based artist and designer Samuel Gomez works at a large scale in graphite and ink to create his complex, intricate arrangements of mechanical and biological forms. He apparently uses fine line markers to delineate his subjects, rendering the exactingly applied tones with graphite in an almost airbrush-like effect. He makes use of subtle…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Heade’s meadows

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    Newburyport Meadows, Martin Johnson Heade In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Heade’s luminous view of a meadow after a storm is not as large as you might assume from the reproductions; it’s 10 inches high by 22 wide ( 27 x 56 cm). See my post on Martin Johnson Heade.

  • Sean Farrell

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    Largely self-taught, and inspired by numerous trips to Italy and the Netherlands where he studied paintings of the masters in museums and churches wherever possible, American painter Sean Farrell brings his fascination with 17th Italian and Dutch painters to play in his luminous, richly hued still life subjects. Farrell makes wonderful use of chiaroscuro in…

  • Tomek Sętowski

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    Tomek Sętowski is a contemporary Polish painter, who would be most readily classified as a magic realist. His compositions are often filled with cascades of multiple objects, figures and architectural structures. In many cases, he portrays objects or figures composed of other objects. His color palate ranges from subdued and almost monochrome to broad arrays…