Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Princess Belozersky, Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
Portrait of Princess Belozersky, Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun In the collection of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; full image here. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project that goes a bit more high resolution. Another beautiful portrait by the brilliant 18th century French painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun.…
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Louis Escobedo
Louis Escobedo is a painter originally from Texas and now based in New Mexico. Escobedo began his career as an illustrator, and was awarded a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators, among other honors. He transitioned into gallery art and has developed a high chroma signature style with compositions structured with strongly geometric areas…
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Eye Candy for Today:Jacob Marrel still life
Still Life With Red, Black And Green Grapes On The Vine, Together With Oranges, A Partly-Peeled Lemon And A Melon On A Draped Table-Top, Jacob Marrel Roughly 20 x 29 inches (51 x 74 cm), oil on panel. Link is to Sotheby’s auction (image file here). As this is the only image I can find,…
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Arthus Pilorget
Arthus Pilorget is French concept artist, illustrator and visual development artist based in Lyon. He graduated from the remarkable Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Gobelins School of Communications) in Paris, and has been working on a nmber of animation projects since. He has a lively, vibrant style with a nice edge of darkness and feeling of…
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness, Sunset in the Woods
Sunset in the Woods, George Inness The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can access a high resolution file; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has a zoomable and downloadable high-res image. There are paintings that seem to transcend art and move into the…
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Rebecca Giles
Rebecca Giles is a painter based in southeastern Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. She paints primarily still life and is particularly fascinated with the effects of light as revealed in surface texture and as filtered through transparent and translucent objects. She will often backlight her subjects in a way that makes them appear to glow.…