IWR Art Links For 12/17/2007 Edwin Longsden Long [Bio 1829-1891 Edwin Longsden Long was a very talented British Orientalist painter. His female figures are very lovely and his attention to detail is quite astounding. I think his The Pharaoh’s Daughter finding Moses is one of the best Old Testament biblical paintings that I have ever seen. The Eastern Favorite Love’s Labor Lost [ ] Tetsuya Ishida [Bio 1973-2005 Tetsuya Ishida’s surrealist paintings reveal the troubled artist within trapped a cold merciless modern mechanical world. It is thought that he committed suicide by jumping under a train. How sad. Self Portrait In The Classroom [ ] Ai Shinohara Ai Shinohara’s surrealist paintings are also a bit on the weird side, but she is a very talented painter and illustrator, indeed. Drift about at the dream spring, 2007 [ ] Xiaoqing Ding (via Blort These are great! I want one for Christmas! What Do You Care [ ] Hugo Boettinger (via Little Hokum Rag Hugo Boettinger is a Czech impressionist painter in the tradition of Renoir. Jugend (1918) Drei Badende Mädchen am Bach (1910) [ ] On the Wings of a Big Orange Fish This is an interesting set of images by Lotusgreen with people riding on orange fish. There are two images I believe by Yoshitoshi and the image below by Suzuki Harunobu has got to be one of the most famous Ukiyo-e images of all time. Mitate no Kinko by Suzuki Harunobu (18th Century) [ ] Claude Verlinde (via Femme Claude Verlinde is a much less depressing surrealist (than those above) in the hybrid style of Paul Delvaux and Hieronymus Bosch. I love his female figures. Aphrodite [ ] Hasegawa Yosuke (via PCL These are fun. Lincoln As Dixie Cup [ ] Permalink |