Author: cparker
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Ken Auster: Intellect and Passion
In my previous post about Ken Auster, a well known California painter of plein air landscapes, cityscapes, surfing scenes and restaurant interiors, I pointed out my disappointment in the frustratingly small images on his website. In particular, I found it unfortunate because the small images don’t convey the wonderful painterly brushwork and textural qualities that…
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David Johnson
Illustrator David Johnson speaks in line. Wonderful contrasts of line, textural hatching, spotted blacks and occasionally color enliven his illustrations and incisive portraits. His compositions reveal a conscious arrangement of areas of the drawing as shapes — pictorial elements. Faces and figures, as well as background objects, are artfully arranged, and his layouts incorporate a…
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Chester Dale Collection on About.com
Last March I wrote about a show called From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection that was on view at the time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The NGA’s page for the exhibit offered a slideshow of 24 images and a PDF of the exhibition brochure, though neither were as…
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Gobelins Students Animations for Annecy 2011
Each year students from the graduating class of the remarkable Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris are divided into teams that create short animations to be used as introductions to each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. Each year in their minute to minute and a half segments…
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Claudio Bravo
Chilean painter Claudio Bravo only studied art formally in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cienfuentes at an early age. Bravo had his first exhibition at the age of 17. In the 1960’s he moved to Madrid where he developed a reputation as an in demand society portrait painter. In the 1970’s he moved to Tangier,…
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Sayaka Ouhito
Japanese artist Sayaka Ouhito is an illustrator, and perhaps a concept artist. I’m unsure about the latter as I can’t read Japanese and, save for this relatively uninformative interview, there seems to be very little information available about her in English. Other than that, I know little about her, just my own impressions of the…