Posts Tagged ‘etchings’

July 20th, 2005

Dream Anatomy

Dream Anatomy is an interesting exhibition with drawings of anatomy and anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present. I saw this link on other blogs before, but I don’t know why I didn’t post it. (via andreaxmas)

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June 4th, 2005

Philippe Lemaire

Philippe Lemaire has a fabulous work of collages, most of them with antique etchings and illustrations. BTW, some are NSFW. (via chroniques de l’inutile)

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May 24th, 2005

The Invisible Cities

Citté Invisibili is a project based on the Italo Calvino’s book The Invisible Cities created by the artist Colleen Corradi Brannigan. She created etchings, lithographs, paintings and watercolours based on Calvino’s cities after a deep analysis. You can see the result on her wonderful works. BTW, this made me wish to read it again and [...]

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March 31st, 2005

François Houtin

François Houtin: etchings and drawings. Awarded the important Prix Lacourière in 1981, French artist François Houtin has increasingly attracted the attention of collectors and museums with his finely detailed etchings and drawings. Houtin’s subjects are highly imaginative renderings of trees, landscapes, and formal gardens. His work renews the tradition of the French classical garden, with [...]

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February 25th, 2005

István Orosz

István Orosz is a Hungarian artist that illusion etchings, anamorphosis illustrations, posters theatre, logos and animations. There are some more links for his wonderful illustrations and videos with the anomorphosis on the entries about him on Giornale Nuovo (that has some more explanations) and MetaFilter.

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October 17th, 2004

Gabrielle d’Estrées

This famous paiting is my choice for this week. The painter is unknow, but the informations say that it belongs to the second Fontainebleau School. You can see the picture on Site officiel du musée du Louvre (the way there: Virtual Tour, paintings galleries, France, The second Fontainebleau School). There are some informations about Fontainebleau: [...]

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