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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Courbet flowers

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    Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, Gustave Courbet On Google Art Project. Original is in the Getty Museum, which offers a 13mb high-resolution file. The version of the Google Art Project file available on Wikimedia Commons is almost absurdly gigantic, at 7,000×9,500 pixels and 30mb in file size — just in case you want to…

  • Nigel Buchanan

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    Nigel Buchanan is an Australian illustrator based in Sydney, whose clients include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Time magazine, among others. His illustrations are created in a broad range of degrees of stylization and conceptual abstraction, but are always delivered with considerable graphic punch. Buchanan knows how to use both muted,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s river

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    River, Frits Thaulow On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bergen Kunstmuseum. I just love the way Thaulow handles the depiction of water, particularly the surface of small streams. I can’t think of anyone who does it better. For more, see my previous posts on Frits Thaulow.

  • Walton Ford

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    Walton Ford is a well known American contemporary artist based in New York. His large scale watercolor and gouache paintings take inspiration from the intricately detailed paintings by 19th century naturalists like John James Audubon. Walton takes that genre’s conventions as a launching point for his excursions into oblique cultural and historic commentary on colonialism,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pedro Alexandrino still life

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    Grapes and Peaches, Pedro Alexandrino On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. A beautiful still life by a turn of the 20th century Brazilian artist I stumbled across on the Google Art Project. I’ll see if I can dig up more for…

  • Kathleen Dunphy

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    Northern California artist Kathleen Dunphy works both in the studio and on location, but even her studio landscapes have the kind of fresh immediacy often associated with painting on location. In her pursuit of the character of light evocative of particular times of day, seasons and weather conditions, she employs a crisp, direct and painterly…