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  • 1896 Paintings on Wikimedia Commons

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    Lets set the Wayback Machine and take a walk through the year 1896 by way of the Wikimedia Commons page for that category. Yes, the image quality is uneven, but there are gems to be found, and this is just a selection from the introductory page for this category. You can drill down into subcategories,…

  • Charles E. Williams II

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    I’ve always been fascinated with works of realism in which the representational image, which presents an illusion of reality, transitions to obvious marks on paper or paint strokes on canvas at the edges, allowing us to see both the drawn or painted illusion and the reality of marks on a surface in the same image.…

  • Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany

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    As I mentioned in my post from 2007, Louis Comfort Tiffany, in addition to designing beautiful Art Nouveau artifacts and stained glass, was an accomplished painter. The Tiffany Studios Research Center now lists resources I didn’t include in my previous post. [Via MetaFilter]

  • From Beasts to Babar: Ten Illustrators of Children’s Books

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    The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art in Colorado is presenting an exhibition titled From Beasts to Babar: Ten Illustrators of Children’s Books that features work by Bernie Fuchs, Maurice Sendak, Etienne Delessert, Gennady Spirin, Henrik Drescher and others. Unfortunately, the images on the gallery’s site are small, but even for those who can’t get to…

  • Selected (Mike Guppy)

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    another sight is a website on which artist and designer Mike Guppy displays a series of short art pieces, most using animated gifs, JavaScript, CSS and other web based techniques. Of them, the one I find most interesting is Selected ~ 2011, a series of animated GIF images in which familiar artworks by Botticelli, Leonardo,…

  • John Singer Sargent murals

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    Though John Singer Sargent has become increasingly popular in recent decades, and even moved up in the begrudging valuation of art critics and museums from his position in the mid 20th Century as a “facile craftsman” to one of a more respected artist, there are still elements of his work and career that are much…