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Author: cparker

  • Father and Daughter

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    Beautiful and subtle, Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short (8 minutes) about a daughter remembering her father. Directed, drawn and animated Michael Dudok de Wit, with assistance by Arjan Wilschut and Lisa Flather. There is an interview with Michael Dudok de Wit here. The film uses minimalist design, softly rendered with touches…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough chalk study

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    Study of a Lady, Thomas Gainsborough In the Morgan Library and Museum. Image is also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. A beautifully economical and gestural chalk drawing by Gainsborough; in white and black chalk on colored, prepared paper.

  • Gilbert Legrand

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    French artist Gilbert Legrand takes common objects like household tools, garden implements, plumbing fixtures, paintbrushes and cleaning supplies — adds the occasional bit of extra material, and paints the resulting objects with faces and other characteristics — to produce his delightfully whimsical sculpture/assemblages. In addition to his sculptures, he has a section in his site…

  • Guy Rose (update 2)

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    Guy Orlando Rose was one of the most prominent of the painters known as “California Impressionists”, and notably, one of those who was born in the state. He traveled to Europe, where he studied in Paris, and painted in Giverny with Monet and the other French Impressionists. He returned to the US and lived on…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Willem Kalf’s silver jug

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    Still Life with Silver Jug, Willem Kalf In the Rijksmuseum. Image also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. Kalf just loved to trace the path of light across arrangements of complex objects, particularly those with intricate reflective surfaces. I love the reflected color of the lemon in the sculptural metal patterns of the…

  • Corinne Reid

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    Corinne Reid is an illustrator whose work combines whimsey with a dark edge. Her approach often involves muted color palettes with soft value transitions ant textural elements to create images in which the subject seems to gradually emerge as you look. Her work has been featured in American Illustration, Spectrum, Creative Quarterly and Juxtapoz; and…