| Nick Patten - Tue, 22 May 2012 14:26:14 +0000 |
| Room interiors, though a relatively common subject, have never really been treated as a separate genre like still life, landscapes or even “cityscapes”. Though they have a long history, and some wonderful painters are noted for them, such as Vermeer, De Hooch or Tarbell, room interiors seem to be most often treated as backdrops for [...] |
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| Jim Madsen - Mon, 21 May 2012 23:43:52 +0000 |
| Jim Madsen is an illustrator based in Provo, Utah who works in children’s books, advertising and educational software. Madsen has the kind delightfully springy and energetic style I usually associate with animation art, along with a sure sense of color and a clear faculty for narrative illustration. I was particularly taken with his beautiful illustrations [...] |
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| Paul Bachem - Sun, 20 May 2012 14:48:38 +0000 |
| Though I had encountered his work on the web previously and filed it away for a future post, I had the pleasure of speaking briefly with New York based artist Paul Bachem yesterday at the 2012 Wayne Plein Air Festival. Bachem has a crisp style, with lots of attention to edges and a physically textural [...] |
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