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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Francesc Masriera’s Winter 1882

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    Winter 1882, Francesc Masriera Oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 24″ (79 x 62 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, which also has a zoomable image. Catalan painter Francesc Masriera has give us a tour de force…

  • Gediminas Pranckevičius

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    Gediminas Pranckevičius is a Lithuanian illustrator who works in the fields of advertising, book and album covers, gaming and children’s books. He has a jaunty,energetic style rendered with nice touches of lighting and texture. His website is divided into sections by project type. I particularly enjoy his the imaginary landscapes in his “Secret place” section.…

  • Carlos Schwabe

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    Though some of his literary subject matter and style characteristics have much in common with Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite artists, German-Swiss painter and printmaker Carlos Schwabe is considered to be a Symbolist. Schwabe was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his work presented a variety of themes and approaches. [Note: some…

  • Stanislaw Maslowski

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    Stanislaw Masłowski was a Polish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also painted in oil (images above, bottom three), I particularly admire his landscape watercolors.

  • Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens

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    Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens Link is to Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Royal Museum Antwerp. 17th century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens’ multi-faceted penchant for drama is in evidence here, in the pyramidal arrangement of the figures — topped of by camel riders peering under the rafters — the great assortment…

  • Another Norman Rockwell exhausted Santa

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    Another of Norman Rockwell’s tired Santa illustrations, this one before rather than after his world-round ride, as in the illustration I featured in this post from 2017. I love the fact that Santa is apparently oblivious to the elf on his shoulder hanging onto his ear as he leans out to point. Source for the…