Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Piranesi architectural fantasy
Part of a spacious and magnificent harbor for the use of the ancient Romans opening onto a large market square…, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Etching, engraving, drypoint and sulphur tint, 16×21″ (20x54cm). From a portfolio titled Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques, and antiquities; designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect. In the collection of…
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Carla Falb
New Jersey based artist Carla Falb finds inspiration in the roller coasters that tower above that state’s Atlantic Ocean beachfront resorts. Her portrayals, based on her own riding experience and photographs, are at times more or less abstract. In their swing toward realism, blurred with speed and imbued with the disorienting sense of chaotic motion,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Etienne Liotard portrait
Portrait of Marie Fargues, Jean-Étienne Liotard In the Rijksmuseum. Use zoom controls at bottom, of create a free account and download images for “Personal Use”.
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KIm Jung Gi
Despite some glaring flaws in its presentation, this time lapse video of Kim Jung Gi drawing a complex panorama in markers, across two walls at 90° and apparently without preliminary sketch, is fascinating. Starting with a driver’s face, he goes on to draw cars, bikes, scuba divers and a variety of animals and people, including…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen still life
Still Life with Fish, Emil Carlsen In the National Gallery of Art, Washington; use “Zoom” control. Early in his career, the Danish-American painter spent six months in Paris, where he studied the still life paintings of Jean Siméon Chardin, apparently to great effect.
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Mirage
Mirage is a 10 minute animated short from Iker Maidagan and Dana Terrace, (with help from others listed in the credits). The short was created for their thesis project as students at the School of Visual Arts and is remarkably sophisticated in its storytelling and overall realization. It starts with an Inuit boy making a…