Author: cparker
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David Cheifetz
Painter David Cheifetz approaches his subjects — primarily still life but also cityscape and figurative— with enthusiastic use of value, color contrasts and painterly texture. You may have seen still life by various artists, notably David Leffel and some of his students, in which objects are made luminous by carrying their dominant color into the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo’s Banquet of Cleopatra
The Banquet of Cleopatra, Giambattista Tiepolo On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. In telling Pliny’s story of the competition between Cleopatra and Marc Antony to put on the most extravagant feast — the culmination of which is Cleopartra dissolving one of her priceless…
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Simon Kozhin
Russian artist Simon Kozhin takes a painterly approach, often roughly textural in his location paintings, as he works with a variety of landscape subjects — both from his travels across Europe and the Mediterranean, and near his home in Moscow. He also takes on figurative and narrative subjects, and you can find an extensive selection…
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Eye Candy for Today: JC Leyendecker illustration for Arrow Shirt advertisement
Illustration for Arrow Shirt advertisement, JC Leyendecker Need I comment? Image is from The Golden Age blog, where you can find many more (Timesink Warning!!)
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Fred Lynch, Drawings From the Road to Rome
There is something special and wonderful about pen and wash drawing, in particular when done with brown or reddish brown washes, that gives it much of the power of painting while simultaneously keeping the unique visual charm of drawing. I’ve occasionally pointed out particular favorites from history, but it’s great to have contemporary practitioners of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny landscape
Les péniches, Charles-François Daubigny Image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Louvre. Sometimes I think history could have just bypassed Impressionism, and gone straight from Daubigny to contemporary plein air styles.