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  • Kenny Harris

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    California based painter Kenny Harris paints landscapes, still life and figurative works, but it is his extraordinary room interiors that captured my attention. Bathed in soft, often indirect light, punctuated by brighter passages of windows or doorways, his interiors are rendered in subtle, dimensional layers of muted colors and painterly textures. Harris studied Fine Art…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh Autumn landscape

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    Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, Vincent van Gogh You might come across versions of this image on the web that are much more colorful — with bright oranges and reds — but despite Van Gogh’s penchant for brilliantly high-chroma paintings in his later career, I don’t believe that’s the case here. I haven’t see the…

  • Brian Miller (Orlin Culture Shop)

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    Brina Miller is a Colorado based illustrator who brands himself as Orlin Culture Shop. His clients include Adobe, GQ Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, and Penguin Publishing, among others. Miller works in a sharp, angular style that feels both modern and delightfully retro (maybe modern-retro-futuristic, or something like that). He utilizes both high and low…

  • Valentin Korotkov

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    Valentin Korotkov is a Russian painter based in Moscow, who studied at the Art College of the Kharkov Academy of Design and Art. He paints with a brusque, textural style, in which the surface texture and paint application is visible even in small reproductions. His landscapes have a nice quality of casual immediacy, and range…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jean Robie still life

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    Flowers and fruit, Jean-Baptiste Robie A stunning tour de force of subtle color, texture, light and dark by the Belgian still life painter. On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and measures roughly 64×54 inches (164x137cm). As is often the case, the…

  • beinArt Collective returns

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    Founded in 2003 by Jon Beinart as the “beinArt Australian Surreal Art Collective” and expanded internationally in 2006 as the “beinArt International Surreal Art Collective”, the beinArt Collective has long been a web destination, publisher and sponsor of group exhibitions for artists working in the areas of strange, surreal, fantastic, psychedelic, visionary and outsider art.…