Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Delft
View of Delft, Johannes Vermeer On Wikipedia, original is in the Mauritshuis. Sometimes overlooked among the enigmatic Dutch master’s oeuvre of striking paintings are Vermeer’s three known landscapes (or more properly, cityscapes), only two of which are existing: The Little Street and View of Delft. Aside from the simple fact that View of Delft a…
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Zen Pencils (Gavin Aung Than)
Zen Pencils is an online comics feature by cartoonist Gavin Aung Than, in which he interprets inspirational writings, sayings and quotes from various sources in the form of comics. The main page of the site is arranged as a blog, and the strips are intermixed with supplementary commentary and other material. New readers may want…
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Still more “not the usual Van Goghs”
Most of these can be found on WikiPaintings. See my previous posts on the subject, below.
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Eye Candy for Today: Gibson ink drawings
Various drawings, Charles Dana Gibson From the Toronto Public Library. Gibson was one of the great masters of pen and ink and a major early figure in “Golden Age” illustration. Look at the head of the “Gibson Girl” the center, and the variety of lines, from the short, fine pen strokes around the eyes and…
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Self-portraits #12
More “selfies” from the hands of artists from the past. Nary an iPhone among them. Images above (links to my posts): George Hendrik Breitner, Amedeo Modigliani, Arthur Rackham, Marie Bashkirtseff, Cornelis Visscher (with detail), Frédéric Bazille, Lorenzo Lotto, Pieter Claesz (with detail).
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Priscilla Wong
To be fair, I haven’t see the new movie, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, but as a fan of the original Peabody’s Improbable History animated shorts from the Rocky and his Friends TV series, I wouldn’t be inclined to think of recasting the very 2-D, very limited animation series — in which writing and voice talent…