Author: cparker
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Antoino Gaudi documentary
It is often said that architecture is a form of sculpture. At its worst, this means that many of our cities are chock-a-block with horribly soulless and mind-numbingly boring modernist sculpture that we would be hard pressed to think of as art. On the other hand, perhaps the most obvious and beautiful manifestation of this…
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Hudson River Landscapes at Peabody Essex
The Hudson River School is a collective name for two generations of painters working in the areas in and around the Hudson River Valley in New York who transformed American Art, and landscape painting in general, in the early part of the 19th Century. Painting the American Vision is the title of a new exhibition…
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Caricatures and facial recognition on Wired
I’ve long held that the most challenging subject for representational drawing and painting is the human figure, and in particular, the face. This is because we recognize, and can detect small inaccuracies in faces and the human form more easily than in any other part of the natural world. If you draw a tree, and…
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LOST: The Animated Series character designs (Michael Myers)
Illustrator and animator Michael B. Myers has given us his vision of what the characters from the LOST television series would look like if they were designed for an animated series. As unlikely as that possibility may be (except perhaps in alternate reality timeline limbo) it’s fun to have his nicely stylized treatment of some…
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Retro Future Space Art on Dark Roasted Blend
I just love these. Not only do I take great delight in past visions of the future, I’m particularly fond of retro space art. The blog Dark Roasted Blend, which posts items that are odd, amusing, visually interesting — or all three, has posted a fine addition to their wonderful series of posts collecting visions…
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LeConte Stewart
LeConte Stewart was an American painter active in the 20th Century who spent most of his life portraying the landscape of his native state of Utah. Stewart studied art at the University of Utah, but also traveled to the East Coast to study with established artists there, notably John Fabian Carlson. I also see other…