Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny’s Landscape with Sunlit Stream
Landscape with Sunlit Stream, Charles-François Daubigny In the Metropolitan Museum of art. Use zoom or download links under image. Ah, summer…..
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Nico Marlet
Nicolas “Nico” Marlet is a character designer, visual development and animation artist best known for his work on animated features like How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters, Inc., Bee Movie, The Road to El Dorado and others. Marlet’s character design drawings just about jump off the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy
The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadble file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Modern Art, NY. This was at one time (and probably still is) one of the most widely reproduced images in all of art. In most of those reproductions, however, you will find the colors…
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Duet, Glen Keane
Renowned animator Glen Keane, best known for his character animation for Disney feature films like Aladdin, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Tangled, has been working with the Google Advanced Technology and Projects Group on one of their new series of interactive animations. In the process, he has created preliminary hand-drawn animation…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cuyp’s Maas at Dordrecht
The Maas at Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Cuyp’s 1650 portrayal of the Maas River at his hometown of Dordrecht, during a historic gathering of a military force in 1646. See my post on Aelbert Cuyp.
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Vladimir Orlovsky
Vladimir Donatovitch Orlovsky (alternately: Volodymyr Orlovsky) was a Ukrainian landscape painter active at the turn of the 20th century. He is considered one of the major proponents of Ukrainian landscape painting. Orlovsky studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts and painted in France, Germany and Italy, as well as in Russia and his…