Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today, Bernardino Luini portrait
Portrait of a Lady, Bernardino Luini In the National Gallery of Art, DC. A 16th century Italian lady in her finery, with her rather toothy fashion accessory.
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Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2014
Each year, five teams of graduating students from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris create short animations (under one minute) that are used to introduce each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. Unfortunately, while the school’s level of instruction undoubtedly remains high, the complexity and quality of the…
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Aureliano de Beruete (update)
As I expected, online resources for Spanish painter Aureliano de Beruete y Moret have widened since I wrote about his work back in 2009, although not quite as much as I had hoped. Available images of his colorful, painterly and textural landscapes are still a bit small in general, and (I think) less reliable in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Mother and Child in a Boat
Mother and Child in a Boat, Edmund Charles Tarbell On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I had the pleasure of seeing this in person as part of a show of Tarbell’s work that visited the Delaware Art Museum back in 2002, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Blechen’s Forest Path
Forest Path near Spandau, Carl Blechen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Blechen gives his forest scene a wonderfully theatrical character of light, without losing the naturalistic feeling of a forest interior after a rain.
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Chris J. Anderson (update)
Chris J. Anderson is a concept artist and illustrator who I first profiled back in 2009. Since I last wrote about his work, Anderson has a new website and blog, but you can also find additional work on the archive of his old blog. Anderson works in many phases of concept design, including character design,…