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Author: cparker

  • Alfons and Adrie Kennis

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    Dutch artists Alfons and Adrie Kennis are twin brothers who work professionally under the studio name of Kennis & Kennis. They are highly regarded in the field of paleontological reconstruction art, where their paintings and sculptures portray prehistoric mammals and pre-humans. What delights me about their paintings in particular is the blending of rendered images…

  • Walter Gay

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    In contrast to the cliché of the Bohemian starving artist, American painter Walter Gay lived something of a charmed life. He was the nephew of an established Boston painter, Winkworth Allen Gay, through whom he met and studied with William Morris Hunt. At Hunt’s suggestion, Gay moved to Paris and studied with the respected French…

  • Mucha Documentary

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    A documentary on the brilliant Czech painter and graphic artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha is available on YouTube. The video is in six parts and is narrated in English. As always, it’s uncertain how long things like this will remain available on YouTube. [Via Gurney Journey]

  • Picturing Archers on Tor.com

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    I’m happy to see that Irene Gallo is continuing her series of “Picturing…” posts, in which she uses her keen art director’s eye and delightfully eclectic taste to select a series of artworks on a particular theme (see my article on her post, “Picturing Autumn“). This time around her topic is “Picturing Archers“, a surprisingly…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Georges de La Tour lamp flame

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    The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour. On Google Art Project. Original is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

  • Hovig Alahaidoyan

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    Hovig Alahaidoyan is a UK concept and visual development artist and designer for games and film. Though his blog is not extensive, and his portfolio is available only as a PDF, Alahaidoyan recently participated in Under Tomorrows Sky, in which he helped bring to life the visualization of a future city as conceptualized by a…