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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Edgar Degas

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    Though considered a member of the original core group of French Impressionists, Edgar Degas (Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas), always stood apart, both in his approach to painting, in which he considered himself a realist rather than an Impressionist, and in his emphasis on drawing. Amid a group that downplayed the role of drawing in art…

  • Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy

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    Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s wonderfully bizarre blendings of nature and humankind, incorporating natural forms like vegetables, twigs and leaves as well as fish and other small animals in the representation of human faces, can still “turn heads” today, as they must have in the 16th Century. Largely forgotten shortly after his death and re-discovered in the 20th…

  • Art of the American Soldier

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    I’ve written before about combat artists, soldiers called on (or inspired to) record their experiences in combat and in other aspects of a soldier’s life. Starting in World War I, the U.S. Army had a program of officially designated combat artists. Remarkably, they were told to record their experiences directly as they saw them, and…

  • Tilt-Shift Van Gogh

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    Actually, pseudo tilt-shift Van Gogh, but that’s a small quibble. Tilt-shift photography is a process in which depth of field and lens angle are manipulated to make a real scene look like a miniature. The effect can be simulated in Photoshop with judicious selections and applications of blur filters. The folks over at ArtCyclopedia, one…

  • Carlo Russo

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    Philadelphia artist Carlo Russo paints landscapes and figurative work, but his emphasis is on still life. Russo is one of those still life painters who manages to convey a feeling of stopped time in his paintings, a sensation of quiet focus and contemplative stillness. His portrayals of rough textured crockery, weathered wood, and tarnished copper…

  • Steve Hanks

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    Steve Hanks is a well known watercolor artist whose subject matter frequently focuses on female figures in interiors or landscapes. His subjects’ ages vary, from babies to women, as do their situations; some are nude studies, some evocative of mother and child tenderness, others children at play or women languidly posed on couches or beds.…