Some very nice portrait work here.…
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Art is not merely in the eye of the beholder. Also – we’ve come to conflate “high art” with art – and worse, “art” with things that are neither beautiful nor requiring skill, nor even comprehensible without referencing the world around them at the moment instead of a work in and of themselves. Brian Niemeier in an epic set of tweets defines the responsibility of the artist, which Bradford Walker gathers up and adds some more insightful commentary. A reality check for writers who may have been taken in by Chuck, The-Evil-That-Devours: The correct definition of “art”, universally known before Modernism…
I first learned of this painter with the following image of a woman at the archeological dig for Pompeii:…
The first Whelan piece I remember as his work was the cover for The White Dragon. Always loved his attention to details, and the relative lack of people standing around looking cool. Did add one extra bit of Leia done by Gabriele Dell’Otto that Daddy Warpig dug up.…
Courtesy of my friend the Didact, he brought John Martin to my attention.…
Some Frederick Church, and a couple other paintings.…
