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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Kano Sansetsu Plum

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    The Old Plum, attributed to Kano Sansetsu, ink, color and gold on gilded paper, 1645 (Edo period). This wonderfully gnarled old tree, portrayed across four sliding door panels, is almost a landscape — or a world — in itself. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click Fullscreen, then zoom or use download arrow.

  • Gustave Caillebotte at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

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    The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is winding down an exhibition titled Gustave Caillebotte: An Inpressionist and Photography, in which they showcase the compositional and representational relationship between the avant guard painters and the newly popular medium of photography. Caillebotte is, to my mind, much underappreciated as an Impressionist painter — his more academic approach forming something…

  • Eye Candy for Today: column drawing by Piranesi

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    Trajan column with two Dacian wars (approximate title), Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Comics expert Scott McCloud has suggested that this kind of display (the physical carved versions that continue around the column) qualify as “comics”, i.e. pictures in sequence that tell a story. [Via Bibliodyssey]

  • Ocean Quigley

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    Ocean Quigley is a painter, sculptor and art director living in Oakland, CA. Quigly has been art director on a number of well known games, including the new SimCity, for which you can see some rather striking CGI renders on his blog. These, in addition to looking at times more like tilt-shift photography than CGI,…

  • Après la pluie (After the rain)

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    Après la pluie (After the rain) is a short (2 1/2 minute) whimsical animation created in 2008 by a group of then third year animation students at the always impressive Gobelins l’école de l’image in Paris. It uses what is apparently a blend of CGI and hand drawn animation and is beautifully realized. Watch full-screen.…

  • John Singer Sargent’s Madame X

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    Ever since portraiture become popular among the newly empowered merchant classes in Europe a few centuries ago, it has been common practice for portrait artists in the early stages of their career to paint non-commissioned portraits as examples of their ability. These are often intended to be striking and memorable, advertising the artist’s capabilities and…