Author: cparker
-
Animal Kingdom at Gallery Nucleus
The Animal Kingdom is a show that opened yesterday at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA and runs until March 3, 2013. (Images above: Christopher Buzelli, Jeremy Wilson, Juan Trevieso, Sachin Teng, Lucrezia Bieler, Bill Carman, Joy Ang, Bruce Jensen, Victo Ngai)
-
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900 is an exhibition that opens tomorrow, February 17, 2013, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. With over 130 objects — paintings, sculpture, works on paper and decorative art objects — mostly borrowed from the Tate Britain and the Birmingham Trust in the UK, along with three…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Allegory of Winter
Allegory of Winter, Jacques de La Joue the Younger. I love the invented atmosphere and the seemingly casual application of paint, particularly in the Rococo flourishes. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link under the image.
-
Tiago Hoisel
Tiago Hoisel is an illustrator and digital painter from Brazil. Hoisel works primarily in Photoshop to create his wildly exaggerated portrayals of people, famous and otherwise, as well as animals and other characters. His caricatures, as stretched and loopy as they may be, are grounded in the tactile realism of detailed textures and firm control…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Corot landscape “sketch”
The Bridge at Narni, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. One of my favorite landscapes by Corot (or by anyone for that matter) — a shining example of why Corot and his compatriots in the Forest of Fontainebleau, along with Boudin, Courbet, Constable, Jongkind and a few others, were considered the precursors of French Impressionism, and by extension,…
-
Katie O’Hagan
Originally from Scotland, Katie O’Hagan moved to the U.S. after receiving a degree in silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art. It was almost 10 years later that she began working in oils. She is now known for her incisive portraits, many of which are set in unusual compositions or settings, and some of which have…