Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Dulac’s Father Time
Father Time, Edmund Dulac On The Pictorial Arts (click on image for larger version). See my post on Edmund Dulac.
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Impressionists on the Water
French Impressionism has always been associated with water. The painters themselves were drawn to the seashore and the rivers of France, filling their canvasses with dappled colors of light dancing across the surface of water under a variety of conditions. Impressionists on the Water is an exhibition of 80 paintings and drawings by Impressionists, Post-Impressionists…
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Kristina Nguyen
Kristina Nguyen is a visual development artist for the entertainment industry. Nguyen studied at the Art Center College of Design and is now woking with Rooster Teeth, designing environments for projects that include the Web series RWBY. Nguyen’s website portfolio is not extensive, but it includes concept designs for an unspecified project in which she…
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Double Degas Eye Candy for Today
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, and Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat, Edgar Degas Degas was restless experimenter. In his depiction of a ballet rehearsal (for which Degas himself “rehearsed” with a number of preparatory drawings, and finished in three different versions) he is experimenting both with composition, as he frequently did, and with…
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Stanislaw Zoladz
Stanislaw Zoladz is a watercolor painter originally from Poland, where he studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, now living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Zoladz’ beautifully refined paintings are infused with light in many forms, from scintillating daylight to the muted, atmospheric effects of overcast days. From the relatively small images on his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Isaac de Moucheron landscape drawing
Classical Landscape, Isaac de Moucheron In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and then zoom or download arrow. A beautiful drawing in the grand tradition of 17th century Dutch landscapes in pen and ink with washes. In this case, the artist has combined two ink colors, brown and gray-brown. The original measures roughly 7×12…