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Eye Candy for Today: Bouguereau’s Work Interrupted

September 14, 2014

Work Interrupted, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College.

Beautifully controlled values and subtle, reserved color in this fanciful depiction of a young woman distracted from her work of winding balls of wool by thoughts of romance — in the person of Cupid, who delicately dabs her ear with perfume.

Though not one of my favorites among 19th century academic painters, I do admire Bouguereau’s skill. Others usually have stronger opinions, one way or the other. See my previous post on William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Work Interrupted, Wikimedia Commons
Related posts:
Eye Candy: Bouguereau’s Spinner
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art
Gobelins graduating student animations 2014

September 14, 2014

Each year for the past 9 years, I’ve been highlighting the annual series of student short animations from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris, that are used as introductions for the daily events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in the spring.

I’ve been lax, however, in pointing out the longer sets of animated shorts created each year by teams of graduating students at the school.

In comparison to the Annecy shorts, these are longer, 3-4 minutes, and more fully realized as stories. They also, unlike the Annecy shorts, sometimes have words — translated here with subtitles — though most are still wordless. Some incorporate a bit of CGI, but all have a hand-drawn look and feel.

They are also all a bit strange and beautiful. The link I’ve provided drops you into the YouTube queue, beginning with the film called Duo, and the autoplay feature, or playlist links on the right, will take you through the others.

(Images above, screen captures only, not embedded videos: Duo, Edgard, 8.9, Mortal Breakup Inferno, Nebula, Un Certain Regard, Wand’s Wander — please see playlist for credits of student teams)

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Duo, Gobelins graduating student animations 2014, YouTube
Related posts:
Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2014
Lines and Colors search: “Gobelins”

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Animation
Charles Muench

September 13, 2014

Nevada painter Charles Muench primarily paints landscape and figures, sometimes combining the two in paintings of figures or portraits in the landscape. Some of these take on the subject of nude figures wading in the shallow water of streams, in obvious admiration for the work of Swedish master Anders Zorn.

Muench also shows his respect for great turn of the 20th century painters of California and the American West — like Maynard Dixon and Edgar Payne — with whom he shares a love of portraying the rugged and colorful mountains and rock formations of those territories.

In all of Muench’s work, however, is his evident fascination with light, both in the rich colors his often brightly lit scenes provide, and particularly in values, the layers of contrasts of light and dark that play through his compositions.

You will sometimes find dark foreground giving way to light middle grounds, only to find the effects of dark and light repeated again in the distance, muted with atmospheric effect.

Muench also plays the the immediate characteristics of light on his foreground subjects, whether figures or the stones on which they sit, glistening in the waters of a softly cascading stream.

In larger reproductions, his work is painterly, with an almost casual surface effect, but carefully laid on a solid framework of traditional draftsmanship.

On his website, you will find galleries of his work in different subject ranges, along with a section of photographs titled “In the Field“, many of which show him working on location. I always enjoy seeing plein air painters working on their pieces in the context of the location, which, in Muench’s case, is often quite dramatic.

Muench teaches workshops and classes, which he lists on his site.

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www.charlesmuench.com
Galerie Gabrie
Stremmel Gallery
Illume Gallery

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Gallery and Museum Art
Eye Candy for Today: Canal scene by Jan van der Heyden

September 12, 2014

Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the old Haarlemmersluis, Jan van der Heyden

In the Rijksmuseum.

Van der Heyden combined views of two different locations in Amsterdam — one of the canal and lock, another of the row of houses — to create his composition.

Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the old Haarlemmersluis, Jan van der Heyden, Rijksmuseum

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Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art
Eye Candy for Today: Richard Wilson chalk drawing

September 11, 2014

The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi, Richard Wilson

On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art.

Noted 18th century landscape painter Richard Wilson, who spent much of his time in Italy, gives us a beautifully direct observation of a tree at the edge of a lake south of Rome. Though it looks like it might be a concept drawing for a Lord of the Rings movie, it’s obviously drawn from life.

I love the way his hatch marks both follow around the forms, giving them shape and volume and define the textures within them. He also shows a wonderful touch in the delicate indication of the foliage.

The YCBA page has more details.

In black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on laid paper, roughly 16×22 inches (39x56cm).

The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi, Google Art Project

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Drawing, Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art, Pastel, Conté & Chalk
ImageS Magazine 13 released

September 10, 2014

Back in May of this year, I wrote about the effort to publish The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS #13.

Long time publisher and classic illustration enthusiast Jim Vadeboncoeur was looking to KickStarter to raise the funds to publish the the ultimate issue of his 13 year labor of love, with a fantastic selection of classic and Golden Age Illustration and a stunning centerpiece of pages from Louis Chalon’s lost classic of art and publishing from the December 1899 issue of Figaro Illustré (above, fourth down), that was never properly realized — until now.

Painstkingly printed with special gilt ink, protected with spot varnish, the section of eight two-page spreads is unlike anything I’ve seen before in the publishing of classic illustration. The effect is carried over into subsequent pages, in which a similar gilt and spot-varnish effect is applied to the ornate borders surrounding the images (above, second and third from bottom).

Reproductions on the web do not do these images, or the printed effect of the gilt ink and precision reproduction, justice. These pages provide something of a feeling of what Gilded Age illustrated magazines should have been like, even if they weren’t in reality (something to be enjoyed while relaxing in your formal garden, glass of cabernet in hand, serenaded by a string quartet).

Of course, if that’s not enough, Vadeboncoeur has expanded his ultimate issue out to 64 oversize, 100lb coated stock pages, and filled them with stunning illustrations by greats like Alphonse Mucha, Maxfield Parrish, J.C. Leyendecker, Frank X Leyendecker, Edmund Dulac, Dean Cornwell, Jessie Wilcox Smith, N.C. Wyeth, Coles Phillips… and, well, you get the picture.

Or, you should get the picture(s), because Vadeboncoeur is making the issue available for only $30.00 (with help from Kickstarter and other supporters)!

Over the years, we’ve come to expect the extraordinary from Jim Vadeboncoeur and ImageS, and he has consistently delivered with some of the most beautiful, and often rarely seen, classic and Golden Age illustration. The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS #13 is a fitting culmination of that tradition.

(Images above: R.L. & E.D. Forkum, J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Lindsay, Louis Chalon, Edmund Dulac, Alphonse Mucha)

The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS #13
My pervious post on ImageS 13 (with additional images)

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Illustration