Author: cparker
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Jama Jurabaev
Jamashed Jurabaev is a concept artist an matte painter living and working in Tajikistan. I like that fact that next to the “Jama Jurabaev” heading on his website, he has the tagline: “is an ambitious concept artist”; an attitude I think will serve him well as he continues to take on challenging subjects. Jurabaev often…
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Piranesi’s Carceri d’invenzione animated
18th Century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his set of etchings titled Carceri (“Prisons”), sometimes referred to as “Carceri d’invenzione“, or “Imaginary Prisons”. These were architectural fantasies that were more in keeping with grand imaginative stage sets than any real prisons, filled with arches, bridges, sculpture and elaborate stonework. Artist Grégoire Dupond,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sorolla
La Siesta en el Jardin by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, in a nice large image file on Wikimedia Commons. Title page here.
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Neil Hollingsworth (update 2012)
Looking at them in reproductions, some might be tempted to think of contemporary realist James Neil Hollingsworth’s refined still life paintings as photo-realistic, but I’ve never seen them that way. To my eye Hollingsworth’s paintings are about the exploration of surfaces — metallic, wooden, smooth, textured, reflective, refractive, polished and tarnished. His surfaces are always…
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Julia Sarda
Julia Sarda is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer based in Barcelona. She has a wonderful, lively style, a superb sense of color and a great feeling for visual drama. She also demonstrates a masterful command of dark and light in her compositions, and plays with theatrical spotlight effects and uplighting to great effect.…
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Constable’s oil sketches
The brilliant English landscape painter John Constable, along with his contemporary J.M.W. Turner, are sometimes viewed as precursors to French Impressionism, and, by extension, the generations of modern painting that followed. I think it’s even more interesting to consider the line from Constable through the outdoor paintings of Eugene Boudin, the Barbizon school, the Impressionists…