Author: cparker
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Monet’s Gare Saint-Lazare series
Claude Monet painted several series of paintings on particular subjects — like the haystack series, poplars, water lilies and the facade of the Rouen Cathedral — revisiting the same subject multiple times in different lighting and atmospheric conditions. The first of these series was of the Gare Saint-Lazare, one the large railway terminals in Paris.…
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Eye candy for Today: Jean Giraud illustration
Mystere Montrouge, plate 10, Jean Giraud This is an image from a portfolio of prints published in 2001 by Jean (Moebius) Giraud. Dreamlike, inventive and striking, it’s yet another wonderful example of his line and color approach, without the spotted blacks and feathering characteristic of American comics art. Note the subtle gradations in the face…
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Ada Florek
Originally from Poland, Ada Florek is a watercolor painter based in Thoiry, France. Though she also paints other subjects, she focuses primarily on architectural and still life subjects. I enjoy her textural approach and use of crisp edges.
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow, A stream in spring
A stream in spring, Frits Thaulow, oil on panel, roughly 13 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm) Link is to Christie’s auction house, where the painting was sold at auction in 2011 (full size here). I don’t know the current location of the original, perhaps in a private collection. 19th century Norwegian painter Frits…
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“Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History” on Public Domain Review
The Public Domain Review (a fascinating site, if you’re not familiar with it) has a nice short article on the history of the graphic organization of color over time. Many of the images are drawn from an article by Sarah Lowengard (published on Gutenberg-e): The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe, that was also the…
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Syd Mead, 1933-2019
Syd Mead designed the future. Though it’s sad news I write about — that designer, concept artist and visionary futurist Syd Mead died on December 30, 2019 at the age of 86 — it’s somehow fitting that a post about him is my first for the start of a new decade. He is best known…