Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Levitan’s bridge at Savvinskaya Sloboda
Bridge. Savvinskaya Sloboda; Isaac Ilyich Levitan; oil on canvas, roughly 10 x 11 inches (25 x 29 cm). Link is to the file page on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, though the gallery does not include it among the Levitan pieces from their collection that they display online. I…
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Blair Atherholt
Blair Atherholt is a painter whose approach to still life combines modern sensibilities with traditions from the “Golden Age” of 17th Dutch still life. Many of his compositions feature dark backgrounds and strong chiaroscuro in the definition of objects, as well as attention to “lost and found” edges. He departs from those traditions in his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Albert Pénot’s La Petite Cigale
La Petite Cigale or portrait of the artist’s daughter, Albert Joseph Pénot Oil on canvas, roughly 63 x 39 inches (161 x 98 cm). Link is to a past auction on Tajan auctions. There is a somewhat smaller image on Wikimedia Commons which lists the location of the original as Museum No Hero, Delden (The…
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Holly Carden
I have to say that I just love cutaway illustrations, those wonderful glimpses of the workings of cars, aircraft, ships, machines, buildings and other complex objects in which the artist has granted the viewer the gift of x-ray vision. Nashville based freelance illustrator Holly Carden creates some particularly nice cutaways of buildings, both real and…
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Eye Candy for Today: T.C. Steele’s Bloom of the Grape
The Bloom of the Grape, Theodore Clement Steele Oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 40″ (76 x 100 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. If, like me, you’re wondering why you don’t see any grape vines in…
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Chen Yanning
Originally from Guangzhou in China, Chen Yanning studied at the Guangdong Academy of Fine Art. He became a U.S. citizen and now lives and works in New Jersey. Yanning takes as his primary subject portraits of young women, some formally posed and surrounded by still life objects, other more casually depicted in various activities. Though…