Author: cparker
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Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art
Anton Seder was an illustrator, designer, art teacher and art school director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who worked in a style that combined Art Nouveau, naturalism and perhaps a touch of magic realism. The Animal in Decorative Art was a design resource, one of many published in the late 19th…
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Eye Candy for Today: – Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol) by Lluís Masriera
Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol), by Lluís Masriera i Rosés; oil on canvas, roughly 35 x 51 in. (90 x 131 cm); Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Spanish painter Lluís Masriera, who was active in the late 19th snd early 20th centuries,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt Autumn landscape
Autumn Woods, Albert Bierstadt, Oil on linen, roughly 54 x 94 in. Link is to image page on Visual Elsewhere, large image here. Original is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. I had the pleasure of seeing thie painting in person a few yars ago in a show of Hudson River School paintings…
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Mark Boedges (update)
Mark Boedges is a Vermont based contemporary painter whose work I have admired and followed for several years. I first featured his work on Lines and Colors in 2013. The images above are from an upcoming show at the Red Piano Art Gallery in Bluffton, South Carolina. that begins on November 7, 2025 with a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Willard Metcalf landscape
Waning Summer, Willard Metcalf, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. ( 61 x 61 cm). Link is to Wikiart page. I don’t know the location of the original, I assume it’s in a provate collection. Metcalf, an American Impressionist who was particularly adept at scenes of fall colors, finds that sweet spot in late…
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Xu Yao
Xu Yao is a Chinese illustrator, comics artist and game designer about whom I can find little biographical information. I don’t know what kind of projects the artwork I’ve encountered is associated with, but it is delightfully playful and beautifully conceived. There is a recurring theme of characters interacting with exaggeratedly large objects like teapots…