Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Vigée Le Brun portrait
Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun On Google Art Project, also available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I think Vigée Le Brun likely “sweetened” her portraits a bit — flattering the sitter — but I’m a complete sucker for it. I just…
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Self-portraits #9, some contemporary artists
A round of contemporary painters… (Images above: David A. Leffel, Koo Schadler, Sadie J. Valeri, Anthony J. Ryder, Jeremy Lipking, Warren Chang, Lea Colie Wight, Daniel E. Greene)
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Journey, Aaron Becker
When I was young, I had a wonderful book called Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson (see my article here), about a boy with a magical crayon that becomes a pathway to adventures by bringing what is drawn with it to life. It was one of my favorite books as a child. It…
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Eye Candy for today: Redfield winter scene
Overlooking the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Redfield was one of the major figures in Pennsylvania Impressionism, painting in and around New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ. Redfield loved to paint in the winter. All of his paintings are highly textural, but his snow scenes in particular are fascinatingly three dimensional — slathered with rills, troughs…
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Self-portraits #8
More non-photographic, non-electronic, non-iPhone “selfies” self-portrayals. (Images above: Giorgio de Chirico, Annibale Carracci, Ferencné Paczka, Edward Hopper, Ilya Repin, Harry Anderson, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Merritt Chase)
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Sorolla and America
The Meadows Museum in Dallas, in cooperation with he San Diego Museum of Art and Fundación MAPFRE, has assembled over 100 works by the Spanish master Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida for an exhibition titled “Sorolla and America“. The exhibition will be on display at the Meadows Museum until April 19, 2014; it then moves to…