Seattle-based illustrator Kai Carpenter creates awesome artworks with a deep reference to American art-deco and post Fordism era.

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Seattle-based illustrator Kai Carpenter creates awesome artworks with a deep reference to American art-deco and post Fordism era

Edward Francis McCartan (August 16, 1879 - September 20, 1947) was an American sculptor, best known for his decorative bronzes done in an elegant style popular in the 1920s. Born in Albany, New York, he studied at the Pratt Institute, with Herbert Adams. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York with George Grey Barnard and Hermon Atkins MacNeil, and then in Paris for three years under Jean Antoine Injalbert before his return to the United States in 1910.

William Henry Barribal (1874-1952) was a London artist who began his career as a lithographer before going on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. By the turn of the 20th century, Barribal had become an accomplished painter and designer. He created a series of images that were used on First World War recruitment posters in Great Britain.

We've all read or seen many fantasy characters - Harry Potter, the Fairy Godmother, Darth Vader, King Arthur, and Merlin. The list is nearly endless. So I decided to find a way to create more fantasy characters that aren't in the stories yet. A few may bear a resemblance, though.

Growing up in India, a country filled with natural beauties, I developed a special appreciation for natural materials and their use in making art. My fascination with nature followed me later in life and inspired me to start creating beautiful moss art. Moss art is a way to bring a bit of the outdoors to your home.

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In Powder and Crinoline is the masterpiece by Kay Nielsen and it may be often seen, but not with this quality. It's from a first edition and looks it. The detailing, the light colors all come through. It would be perfect framed for a little girl's room, but can also be used in your scrapbooking, paper crafts, jewelry making, whatever strikes your fancy! Ready for you to print out! Total print size- 7.067" x 8" You are purchasing an incredibly sharp, clear, digital image scanned at a high resolution, 300dpi in jpg form. Once payment is received, you will be able to INSTANTLY DOWNLOAD YOUR IMAGE(S). Our images can fit on 8.5 x 11 paper. **THE ANNOYING WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON YOUR DOWNLOAD** What fabulous things can you create? Announcements, Invitations, and place cards, (think wedding, engagements, baby!) Paper Arts: Jewelry: Used on transfers: Print and Frame For: Greeting cards Earrings Tee-shirts Baby's Nursery Stationery Bracelets Tote bags Child's Room Bookmarks Necklaces Pillows Wall Decor Gift tags Napkins Scrapbooking Dish towels Altered Art Ribbons Card Making And any magical thing your artistic bent can create! The Fine Print (No pun intended) Do's Do make fantastico art with our digital delights! Don'ts Do not use our images in digital collage sheets, resell them, reproduce them in a compilation cd for resale, or share them with buddies. We and our little elves work tirelessly to ferret out special pieces of paper ephemera, which we then scan and restore to perfection for the discerning creative customer. Taking our work and reselling or redistributing is not only bad form, it angers our little pals. And you don't want to make an elf mad! So please refrain from practices that you would not want done to your artwork. Thank you!

Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East. In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color. SCHNACKENBERG BALLET UND PANTOMIME, a portfolio of 22 color pochoir lithographic prints by Walter Schnackenberg with an introduction by Alexander von Gleichen-Russwurm, printed in an edition of 850, of which 50 examples were numbered and printed on Buttenpapier, commissioned by Kunstanstalt Albert Frisch in Berlin and published by Georg Muller Verlag, Munich, 1920. Schnackenberg’s contemporary, the celebrated satirical artist Thomas Theodore Heine, described the sophistication, spiritual nature and sensuality of Modern Dance as “praying with your legs.” In his introduction to Schnackenberg’s portfolio Ballet und Pantomime, Alexander von Gleichen-Russwurm, the godson of King Ludwig and Friedrich Schiller’s heir, writes of its timeliness. He recognizes the portfolio’s uplifting nature in the face of humiliation and defeat in the aftermath of war. He insightfully points out the primal power of Modern Dance and how Schnackenberg expertly and artfully translates his keen sense of movement to the graphic medium. Perhaps most significative is his commentary on Schnackenberg’s creation of a fantasy through the use of classical precedent, exotic cultures and the Carnival tradition. Schnackenberg’s personages assume the roles of wizards, ghosts, flowers, and insects, they are harlequins and an African princess, a Native American shaman, a Vedic dancer and a Waltz dancer; they are man-made items like a powder puff or become the personification of night, itself. A distinctive aspect of the Modern experience is the multiple roles each of us play on a daily basis. While Schnackenberg’s carnivalesque dancers serve as a means of escape through fantasy, they also represent a leveling effect by broadening awareness to augment the possibilities of social existence. Another aspect of modern life which Schnackenberg’s work addresses is the multitude of choices we have and our ability as consumers to make for ourselves something unique out of often-times mass-produced and duplicative items. Schnackenberg’s was not a pessimistic take on modernity, but rather anticipated a gestalt sensibility where one can assemble disparate parts to create an organic structure which functions in a manner greater than the sum of its parts. His dancers are summations of parts, summations of movements: a naturalistically rendered section of torso with deeply shaded regions to accentuate the curve of the rib cage and musculature around the chest and upper arm is balanced by flat patterns of colorful fabric; bare flesh is contrasted by costume; an expressive face pokes out from a fantastical headdress; arms are contorted into mannered poses; feet emerge to complete the amalgamation of pantomimic experience and dynamic movement. Parts become wholes. Schnackenberg’s prescient understanding of the potentially marginalized and fracturous nature to modern life provides a soothing balm with many possibilities. Indeed, Schnackenberg recognized that dance in his era had moved far beyond the surface of mere visual delight, that dance was the medium - the modern allegory - with which to capture deep feeling and the essence of the modern experience. By designing ballet costumes and illustrating the final outcome of a costumed dancer in full performance mode, Schnackenberg has created his own gestalt of dance which was not only timely for his modern age but resonates powerfully today.

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Minoan motifs pattern marine pottery style/palatial fresco style. Art by Alexander Petela - https://t.co/jji9jX6dhz?

A visual feast of some of the most significant and disregarded art and artists in the history of art.

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Last December I called a bunch of artist-friends and asked them to share their favorite winter paintings for an article celebrating the winter solstice. I didn’t expect to make it a series at the time, but the post was too much fun to put together and I learned way too much not to try it […]

His meticulously sensual art defined a time; now they are classics. Over 100 selections on exhibit in a virtual gallery show presented by CultureEdit.

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Growing up in sleepy Kolkata, my childhood was filled with books, thanks to discerning parents who saw value in reading. We subscribed to all kinds of comics, Indrajal, Amar Chitra Katha, Disney…

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Prinzessinnengruppe, Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1797, Luise und Friederike von Preußen (von Mecklenburg)