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Author: cparker

  • Rembrandt’s Supper at Emmaus

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    The Biblical story of the Supper at Emmaus, in which Jesus appears to, and later has a meal with two of his disciples after his resurrection, is a repeated theme in the history Christian art. The most famous example is the striking composition by Carravaggio. Rembrandt’s portrayal of the scene is less familiar, and is…

  • Thomas Kinkade, 1958-2012

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    Longtime readers of Lines and Colors may be surprised to find me writing about Thomas Kinkade, as I normally only write about artists whose work I personally find appealing, and I wouldn’t be quick to put Kinkade on that list. I do find him interesting as a phenomenon, however, and his untimely death yesterday at…

  • Kieran Yanner

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    Kieran Yanner is a concept artist and illustrator working for a variety of clients in publishing and the gaming industry. Originally from Darwin, Australia, Yanner now lives and works in Seattle, Washington in the U.S. His clients include Hasbro, NCSoft, THQ, DC Comics, Marvel, Upperdeck Entertainment, Decipher, Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, White Wolf, Vivendi…

  • Google Art Project expanded

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    Google has recently expanded and improved their already amazing Google Art Project, in which they use their Google Maps “Street View” tech to offer virtual tours of museum spaces, and, more importantly, offer beautiful, zoomable high resolution images of great works of art from world class museums. Their recent expansion adds 150 museums and galleries…

  • How Do Artists Protect Their Work Online? on Symbiartic

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    Writing for Symbiartic, a blog devoted to scientific art on Scientific American that he co-authors with Kalliopi Monoyios, Glendon Mellow recently asked several science related artists to comment on the question How Do Artists Protect Their Work Online? Mellow asked me to participate, which I did in my role as the author/artist of Dinosaur Cartoons…

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner

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    Though American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is frequently thought of as a realist and as an orientalist — for the Biblically themed works based on his trips to Palestine and other locations in the middle east, I came away from the current superb show…