Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920) Lover of Painting. Portrait of Collector I.V. Tsvetkov, 1907
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Life Lessons from Dinosaurs
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James Gurney
This weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.
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5 comments:
Yet another magnificent painter from the past, sadly fallen into near obscurity, who is more talented than any famous painter working today.
Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Lucien Freud are/were plenty talented, Jim. You'd probably love Richter's photographic paintings like Lesende. https://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/gerhard-richter/reading.jpg!Blog.jpg
I'm not happy to point out typos, but there is one in the title.
'Tsvet' is how Slavs pronounce the word that means "flower," so it's a portrait of Mr. Flower.
Brad, if a painting looks and feels exactly like a photograph, it's a failed painting (*). Why paint if your result is indistinguishable from a photo? Might as well use a camera.
(* Unless your goal was trompe l'oeil of a photograph, of course. Which is a fairly limited thing in painting spectrum.)
Read up on Richter. If you know enough about art to give this canned response you should be able to see why what he's doing has value.
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