Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Godward’s In Realms of Fancy
In Realms of Fancy, John William Godward; oil on canvas; roughly 15 inches in diameter ( 39 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. Victorian painter John William Godward — known for his portrayals of languid women in repose wearing flowing, often diaphanous attire — gives us another refined example…
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Stow Wengenroth
In this age where we’re bombarded from all sides by color — often intense and accompanied by motion — it’s easy to become jaded and insensitive to the visual charms of monochromatic images. Just as we sometimes need to turn off the screens and the fast pace of moden life in order to appreciate the…
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Adoration of the Shepherds, Rembrandt etching
The Adoration of the Shepherds, with the lamp, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching, roughly 6 x 7″ (14 x 17 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum’s page indicates this is the first of three states. I looked around a bit but I can’s find a later state, though several major…
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Some illustrators’ Santas
Our image of Santa Claus comes primarily from the interpretations of illustrators — famous and otherswise — over the years. (Images above: J. C. Leyendecker, Thomas Nast, Reginald Marsh, Arthur Rackham, Norman Rockwell, N. C. Wyeth, Edgar Franklin Whittmack, Haddon Sundblom)
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Ella Du Cane
Ella Du Cane was a Victorian watercolorist known for her paintings of various parts of the world — in particular, her delicate watercolors that obviously carry the influence of the colorful Japanese woodblock prints that were becoming increasingly popular in Europe and the UK at the time. With her sister, Florence, Du Cane traveled to…
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Mucha’s interpretations of Winter
Three of Czech artist and designer Alphonse Mucha’s images depicting winter. Reproductions of Mucha’s work on the web are so erratic and miscolored, one of the few places I trust is the Mucha Foundation, which I’ve linked to for the first two images. I can’t find the other, except for stores selling reproductions. Happy Winter…