Computer Animation Arts

Saw these today over at It's Nice That and was struck by the animation-centricism of Mike Lee's vaguely unsettling, if somehow comedic paintings.  See more of Lee's work here .

Charles Courtney Curran (1861 - 1942) was an American impressionist painter and I'm sharing a selection of his work here, not because I'm a closet fan of Curran's nostalgic and sentimental milieu, but rather in simple celebration of his use of light and colour.  There's something both lambent and translucent about Curran's paintings - and that red umbrella packs a filmic punch!  I was particularly drawn to the street scene - just take a look at what's happening on the pavement, it's positively awash with colour!

So I only just came across this painter whose work has made my jaw drop. At first glance this seems like a well-taken photo but it's actually a painting with extreme attention to detail. It is unbelievable how she can make her work look so moist.  "Strid likes to paint in a photo realistic style, but always with the strong desire to convey an odd feeling, a forgotten memory, or maybe just something that is typical of her own little world."

  "During the turbulent 1940s, artist George Ault (1891-1948) created precise yet eerie picture works of art that have come to be seen, following his death, as some of the most original paintings made in America in those years. The beautiful geometries of Ault’s paintings make personal worlds of clarity and composure to offset a real world he felt was in crisis." http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/ault/

" Frederic Edwin Church went first to the tropics and volcanoes of South America, when American artists of the mid 19th century usually went to Europe or the western frontier in order to expand their repertoire... I n 1844, at the age of 18... he became the famous Hudson River School painter  Thomas Cole's   only pupil.   By the early 1850's, Church was not only oil painting views of specific American places with topographical exactitude, he was also combining separate elements of meticulously detailed scenery into landscapes of heroic breadth and depth. Church traveled from the arctic to the tropics making detailed sketches in search of material for his elegant oil paintings. His oil paintings were often extremely large and they enthralled crowds with their realistic, technical virtuosity". from theworldartist.com

Jose Miguel Roman Frances was born on January 2, 1950 in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain. At the age of fourteen he began to paint in the workshop of Gaspar Frances Rico. Rico became more of a friend than a teacher, and his work influenced Frances’ artistic formation. Frances’ work is characterized by its superb draftsmanship and the feeling of light that he manages to reflect in everything that inspires him. His paintings are employed lavishly, with dense buildups in the floral groupings and the landscapes surrounding the female figures which are the core and focus from which all else radiates. However, when dealing with the flesh the paint becomes restrained, even austere, suiting itself to a subject, and thus achieving an overall effect of harmony and great beauty. In 1965 he exhibited his first painting in the Salon de Otono in Alcoy. The following year he moved to Madrid, where he remained for five years experiencing the culture of this region. In 1971 he returned to Alcoy, where...