I found this book also on the great thrifting day last week. I have always loved Richard Scarry and a few years ago found a whole book about him, his life and ways of working! It is a lovely book...
-advertisement- What painting helped push Mark Fehlman on the path to being an artist? Lead Image: “The Palm Grove,” by Joaquín Sorolla, 1918, oil, 90 7/8 x 76 1/8 in. Private collection “I had never seen anything like it,” says Fehlman. “I was just floored by it, and by the whole show. It was a […]
-advertisement- Philadelphia painter Mike Manley sees this N.C. Wyeth painting as a good example of what people really mean when they say a painting “looks like a photograph.” Lead Image: “Frontier Trapper,” by N.C. Wyeth, 1920, oil, 34 x 32 in. “They aren’t saying that as an insult,” he explains. “They just don’t have the […]
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My featured artist today and over the next two blogs, is the Dutch nineteenth century landscape painter Charles Henri Joseph Leickert. His painting genre was also often associated with another artistic “-ism”, that of Romanticism. But what is Romanticism when used as a description of an artist’s work. In his 1950 book De Romanesken, the…
(Eighteenth century sandstone marker from the Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Connecticut) I recently had a conversation with a t...
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The many influences of an inventive early photographer | Culture
Byzantine architecture and early Christian churches are often considered together. Explore the history and influences behind this medieval style.
Early 20th-century Christmas cards reflected a blend of Victorian influences and new design trends. Many cards featured intricate illustrati...
COSTUMES: early medieval Poland Various Slavic costumes (with the focus on dresses, jewellery and accessories) and a few ones of noticeable Viking influences. All pictures are from Rękawka 2014 - the...
gareth hague told us about some of his early influences and his approach to designing new typefaces.
Fascinated by her daughter’s early obsession with pink, a photographer explores the two hues’ influences in children’s lives.
A full history of the Piano's early influences to present day. from the early zither and dulcimer, to the early keyboard instruments - Harpsichord and Clavichord, Cristofori's first piano, Industrial Revolution to present day.
Vania Zouravliov - Russian-born Vania Zouravliov was inspired from an early age by influences as diverse as The Bible, Dante’s Divine Comedy, early Disney animation and Nort...
Crowbar's Kirk Windstein talks about his early influences, including Black Sabbath, Melvins, Carnivore, Trouble, Saint Vitus and Witchfinder General.
We spoke to the young artist and collector's darling about her early influences and unusual approach to art making.
The LA-based painter reveals early and current influences evidenced in his museum survey at the Dallas Museum of Art.
