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Author: cparker

  • MoMA’s Monets

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    In the later years of his life Claude Monet largely devoted himself to painting the gardens he had built at his home in Giverny, in particular a series of over 200 paintings of Nymphaes, or water lilies, from the Japanese style pond that was the centerpiece of the smaller half of his gardens. Three of…

  • Pandore

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    Pandore (Pandora) is a superb animated short by Marion Stinghe, Meryl Franck, Benoît Guillaumot, Nicolas Caffarel and Elen Le Tannou, students in their third year as Animation majors at Gobelins, l’école de l’image, a visual communications school in Paris. Unlike the introductory shorts done by Gobelins students for the Annecy Film Festival each year, this…

  • Bill Perkins (update)

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    California artist Bill Perkins helped co-found the Plein-air Artists of California in 1983, and has been a member of the Plein-air Painters of America since 1985. Perkins is a recognized teacher. He has taught at the Art Center College of Design and Associates in Art and is currently an instructor at Los Angeles Academy of…

  • Covered (Robert Goodin)

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    Here’s an amusing notion. Robert Goodin, an illustrator and comics artist, has established a blog called Covered, the theme of which is to allow contemporary artists and illustrators to display their take on classic comic book covers; their covers of covers, if you will. The result is a delightful amalgam of styles and approaches, as…

  • Matt Held

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    When people choose a photo (or series of photos) by which to represent themselves on a social networking site like Facebook, they are, in a way, making a self portrait, their choice influenced by their perception of themselves. This is one of the interesting aspects of Matt Held’s Facebook Portrait project, in which he paints…

  • The Triplets of Belleville

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    Now that the U.S. animation studios have largely abandoned cell animation in favor of the hyper-kinetic slickness of computer graphics, we must look elsewhere for the joys to be found in hand-drawn animation. The most prominent of those delights is the obvious and simple visual charm of drawings that move; a charm that is most…