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(Sorry for canning the previous post, I couldn't find high quality versions. I'll look for more later.)

Artist Statement: In my early years, I explored ravines and woods near my house, often lost in another world and late for dinner. A serious interest in painting developed at 11 years old. As I recall, my first painting was of a rainbow trout. My parents hired local artists to instruct me privately during my teen years. A person who really taught good basics was Carl Christophersen. In painting lessons, Carl taught me to divide objects into shapes and planes with hard and soft edges.

John Martin

Created around 1841, depicts a dramatic scene from John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost". The painting shows the fallen angels, led by Satan, entering the fiery depths of Pandemonium, the capital city of Hell.

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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum - 1822

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The Great Day of His Wrath - 1851

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-martin-371

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6755494

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6131791 > > > Virgil Finlay (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time. > > > > Gallery 1 | Gallery2 > > > > ! > > > > The Outsider and Others. Original art for the dust wrapper of the book by H.P. Lovecraft (Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939) > > > > ! > > > > 1941 | Lovecraft art, Color out of space, Horror art > > > > ! > > > > Virgil Finlay – The Shunned House > > > > ! > > > > 1939 Virgil Finlay - HP Lovecraft The Horror in the Burying-Ground Call > >

From muddycolours.com :

For the demo, I wanted to portray someone familiar so the audience could understand where I was going with the paint. That way, they’d know if the likeness was off or if I was just phoning it in. (Forgive the pun.)

I chose Ripley, from the film Alien, as my subject. Like so many others, I’m a fan of the character and Sigourney Weaver’s portrayal. I used a frame shot. It’s not just a picture of Ripley, but a moment of her character.

As a painter, portraits provide an incredible learning arena for understanding value, form, contrast, edges, paint mixing, color temperature, and stroking. All the basics for creating any painting from there. It is a hallmark of a painter’s skills, where the basics coalesce to achieve a character’s image.

From comic art fans site:

Ferenc Pintér was born in Alassio, near Savona in 1932. In 1940 his family moves to Budapest with the intent of treating his father Jószef’s tuberculosis, but the surgery doesn’t go as hoped so and after a few years Ferenc loses his father. He’s able to come back to Italia after the rebellion in 1956 and the arrival of the Soviet tanks. As soon as he gets to Milano he obtains as a first job the realization of a giant mural (80 m²) for the “Radio Marelli”. For the following three years he keeps making advertisings for important Italian industry until 1960 which is the year that marks the start of the collaboration with “Arnoldo Mondadori Editore” that will last 32 years. For this publishing house he makes covers and internal illustrations for books, but he’s remembered the most for the Commissario Maigret and Agatha Christie’s crime books. However his best works are the ones for “Oscar Mondadori”. His favorite tools are acrylic colors that he use with extraordinary maestria to create surreal scenes characterized by a strong expressionist element.

I couldn't find a wiki, but from this site I did find for an exhibition the artist had:

Museum of the History of Kiev presents an exhibition of Vasily Korchovoy "Other beauty". The creativity of the Kiev sculptor is the embodiment of what is still called “atypical” beauty in society. These are magnificent bacchanals and madonnas, with love recreated by the master in marble or limestone plastic forms. In the exposition, the author, combining the already known creative works and the novelties specially prepared for this exhibition, reveals the eternal life essence of what he professes and calls “Other Beauty”.

Vasily Korchevoy was born in 1962 in the Khmelnitsky region. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, sculpture faculty. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Honored Artist of Ukraine.

Another one of his sculptures I really like:

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From the auction site for the piece:

Daniel E. Greene (born 1934) is an American artist who works in the media of pastels and oil painting. The Encyclopædia Britannica considers Mr. Greene the foremost pastelist in the United States. To date, Daniel Greene has painted over 117 works depicting scenes of the New York subways, which he describes as a source of constant inspiration. His 2004 exhibition SUBWAY PAINTING at the New York Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal was the inaugural event in the centennial year of the New York City Subway. Through his paintings of people riding in or waiting for the subway, seemingly mundane occurrences, Greene reveals his affinity for conveying his unique perception of the ordinary.

Fritz Schwimbeck's "Tod im All" (Death in Space) is a work from his 1919 portfolio "Werden-Vergehen" (Creation-Death). Schwimbeck was a German Symbolist artist active in the early 20th century, known for his allegorical and mystical artworks. "Tod im All" represents the concept of death encompassing all of existence, with the human form dwarfed by the vastness of the cosmos.

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>The Nightmare

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>Fritz Schwimbeck Dracula, 1917

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>Ewigkeit": Strahlender Planet über dem Eismeer , 1918

https://www.artnet.com/artists/fritz-schwimbeck/

The painting has no name

Source: The artist's FB page

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Here we are with a community celebrating art, some of us might like to archive it. But no, inevitably it's google 'owned' transcoded, WebP. I have an extension to re-encode back to an old format, but that's lossy-lossy transcoding, not good. I suspect it's a Lemmy thing, but what would it take to get non-lossy here?

From Daily Art Magazine:

Viktor Zaretsky is often called the Ukrainian Gustav Klimt. In fact, the influence of Klimt in the artworks of this Ukrainian artist is quite obvious. This does not mean that he just copied the works of the Austrian painter; instead, he developed his own artistic language making his paintings unique.

Zaretsky was a 20th-century Ukrainian artist. As well as his wife, Alla Horska, he was one of the “Sixtiers.” This is a name given in Ukraine to the 1960s group of artists who rejected the principles of Socialist Realism with their creativity and refused to let their artworks (paintings, poems, plays, etc.) serve the interests of the Soviet authorities.

The Sixtiers were part of the dissident movement. They advocated the development of the Ukrainian language and culture as a whole. Therefore, this group of artists laid the foundations for the realization of the rights of the Ukrainian people to their own statehood. That is why the Sixtiers were often followed, summoned for questioning, arrested, and often sent to the penal colonies.