Author: cparker
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David Gray
David Gray paints elegant, refined still life paintings and beautifully realized portraits in the classical realist tradition. In both his portraits and still life paintings, he evokes a feeling of stillness and contemplation, though in the portraits that feeling is often pierced by the quiet but intense aliveness projected by his subjects. Similarly, Gray works…
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Manabu Ikeda
Though I doubt they were intended to be so, the striking works of Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda, seen at this juncture, can seem chillingly prophetic. The structures, shapes and waves of objects in his work are portrayed as enormous in scale, as revealed by the astonishingly complex textural elements of countless smaller items of which…
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Duane Keiser’s Peel
I just love this. Back in December of 2004, Virginia based painter and teacher Duane Keiser originated the phenomenon that has come to be known as “painting a day“, in which painter/bloggers paint a small work and post it to a blog each day. He painted a small painting everyday for about two years, and…
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Mucha’s The Slav Epic
Most people who are familiar in passing with Art Nouveau artist Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha (see my recent post on Alphonse Mucha on Gallica Digital Library) are not aware of his body of work that is in a very different style. The most important and striking examples of this are a series of 20 very large…
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Edward Kwong
Canadian illustrator Edward Kwong studied at the Alberta School of Art and Design in Calgary, and is now based in Montreal. Kwong takes his affection for early 20th Century art movements like Cubism, Art Deco and Futurism and mixes them in the blender of his strong graphic design sensibilities, resulting in a delightful amalgam of…
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Clark Hulings at the Forbes Galleries
Clark Hulings, a superb American artist I wrote about in 2009, died in February of this year. In what is being described as his last show of new work, The Forbes Galleries in New York will host a show titled Clark Hulings: An American Master from March 23 to September 10, 2011. The exhibition will…