Author: cparker
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Alessandro Tofanelli
Italian painter Alessandro Tofanelli’s haunting landscapes conjure a feeling of stillness and solitude. Whether that’s a positive or negative is, I think, somewhat indeterminate. He paints in Italy, however — for me — his emphasis on scenes on or at the edge of water feel particularly evocative of the time I spent as a child…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Gibrat comics panel
Quai de Valmy, Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat; ink, watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 25 x 20 inches ( 65 x 51 cm). Link is to listing on Christie’s auction, where the original art sold for almost 44,000 Euros (roughly $46,000). The listing desctiption is in Franch; (Google Translate to English here). This…
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David Bottini (update)
David Bottini is a contemporary painter whose paintings are often filled with dappled light — sparkling on the surface of streams, highlighting paths and glinting off of bright autumn leaves. His paintings are rendered in acrylic, but in a painstaking method involving layers and layers of glazes; a method inspired by his love of the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Bogaerts still life with cherries and stoneware can
Still life with cherries and stoneware can, Jan Bogaerts; oil on canvas; roughly 14 x 18 inches (35 x 46 cm). Link is to sold listing on Simonis & Buunk gallery, which has a zoomable version of the image. Large image here. Early 20th century Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts elevates his simple, commonplace still life…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller landscape
View of Ischl, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, roughly 18 x 22 inches (45 x 57 cm), oil on wod panel; in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This landscape by the early 19th century Austrian painter is a view of a mountain village in 1838. The museum’s site has both a zoomable…
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Pierre Adolphe Valette (revisited)
Pierre Adolphe Valette (sometimes referenced simply as Adolphe Valette) was a painter originally from France, who spent much of his career living and working in England. He is noted in particular for his atmospheric cityscapes, full of mist and mystery. He was influenced by the French Impressionists’ fascination with the effects of atmosphere on light,…