Author: cparker
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Haltadefinizione, high resolution art images
In my recent post on Monet at the Grand Palais, I was praising the online gallery in which a large number of Monet’s works have been made viewable on the web in relatively high resolution images. I say “relatively” because Haltadefinizione, or “HAL9000” (English version here), an Italian project specializing in high-definition photography, has made…
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Paul Felix
Paul Felix is a visual development artist whose credits include Disney feature animation titles like Mulan, Brother Bear, The Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch, Tarzan and The Emperor’s New Groove. Felix doesn’t maintain a website, so John Nevarez, himself a talented visual development and storyboard artist for animation, and an ardent admirer of Paul Felix’s…
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Monet at the Grand Palais
It may surprise lovers of Impressionism in the U.S. and Britain that Claude Monet, the artist whose name most hold synonymous with Impressionism, doesn’t evoke the same level of reverence in his native France. Not that he isn’t popular; the French just seem a bit more blasé about their cornucopia of Impressionist works and the…
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Peanuts turns 60
Peanuts, the iconic comic strip with a title its author hated, began 60 years ago today on October 2nd, 1950. The name was tacked on by the syndicate, arguing that the name Charles Schultz wanted, “L’il Folks”, was too close to the names of other current strips, and downplaying the viability of his subsequent suggestion,…
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Nicolas Ferrand
Concept artist Nicolas Ferrand works in the gaming industry, and has worked on titles like Assasin’s Creed, Prince of Persia 3, Splinter Cell 2, 3 & 4, Ghost Recon 2, Far Cry 2 and Avatar. Born in France, he now lives in Montreal, Canada where he is working on Thief 4 for Eidos/Square Enix. Ferrand…
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Paintbox Leaves
Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth is an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY that features some prime examples of American landscape painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibit explores the fascination artists have had with the glories of the American landscape in Autumn, described by Thomas…