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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Rick Taylor

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    Rick Taylor is a painter, illustrator and comics artist living in Mississauga, Ontario, just outside of Toronto. After working in watercolor for a time, Taylor moved into working in acrylic on canvas, in a process that involves layers of glazes. He brings from his experience as a comics artist and illustrator a graphic sensibility and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Froment’s Burning Bush

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    The Burning Bush, Nicolas Froment, 1476 On Web Gallery of Art. In certain circles in the Middle Ages, they revised the Old Testament story of God appearing to Moses in a burning bush, with Mary and Jesus in the starring roles. (And we think remakes altering the source material is something new…) Foment portrays the…

  • My articles for Painting.Answers.com: Nov – Dec, 2013

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    I have continued to write a series of articles on painting for Answers.com as their Category Expert Writer for that subject. Most of them are roughly split between “how-to” articles on painting tools and techniques, and history-oriented articles on individual artists, art movements and particular paintings. You can see my most recent contributions at the…

  • Peggy Root

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    Originally from Florida, where she studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Peggy Root went on to study at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old lyme Connecticut, and now lives and works in Tennessee. Root paints her large scale oil paintings (perhaps 4×5′ or 122x152cm) on location. Like Monet, she brings…

  • Alexandre-François Desportes

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    French painter Alexandre-François Desportes (sometimes, just “François Desportes”), who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, specialized in animals and still life. He often combined the two in the kind of still life that featured game along with fruits and other objects. Some of these were arranged as elaborate tableaux, combined interior…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Magpie

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    The Magpie, Claude Monet Beautifully direct and painterly, The Magpie is the best known of Monet’s numerous snow scenes. On Google Art Project, also in high-res on Wikimedia Commons (4.7mb). Original is in the Musée d’Orsay.