Articles & Texticles http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk Art, Text & Icles Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:43:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Norman Rockwell Museum Reveals All in ProjectNORMAN- (but teeny-weeny) http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2011/01/06/norman-rockwell-museum-reveals-all-in-projectnorman-but-teeny/ http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2011/01/06/norman-rockwell-museum-reveals-all-in-projectnorman-but-teeny/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:24:37 +0000 michael http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/?p=2611 “Triple Self Portrait” (Please click to enlarge the images) The Norman Rockwell Museum announced the opening of ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network) today, the 6th of January, which will allow you to look through thirty thousand of Rockwell’s reference photos, preliminary sketches and paintings, and other items from the Museum’s art [...]
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]]> http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2011/01/06/norman-rockwell-museum-reveals-all-in-projectnorman-but-teeny/feed/ 0 Gavril Pavlovich Kondratenko 1854 – 1924 http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/27/gavril-pavlovich-kondratenko-1854-1924/ http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/27/gavril-pavlovich-kondratenko-1854-1924/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:07:36 +0000 michael http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/?p=2606 The fifth of a series of snow themed posts, for this season of the year. Winter Morning 1901 (Click all these images to enlarge them please.) Landscape With Pagoda Gavriil Kondratenko was born in 1854. Studied at The Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts from K.Gun and M. (Mikhail Konstantinovich) Klodt. Author of the [...]
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]]> http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/22/charles-tunnicliffe-1901-1979/feed/ 2 Theodor Kittelsen http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/18/theodor-kittelsen/ http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/18/theodor-kittelsen/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:18:38 +0000 michael http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/?p=2592 The third in a pre-Christmas line up of snow paintings. From “The Christmas Troll” (Juletroll ) 1907 ( Click to enlarge, please ) At about the time when yesterday’s subject, Victor Westerholm, was active in Finland, another Scandinavian artist was struggling to make a living in Norway. While we have by and large forgotten the [...]
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]]> http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/18/theodor-kittelsen/feed/ 0 Victor Westerholm http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/17/victor-westerholm/ http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2010/12/17/victor-westerholm/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:56:11 +0000 michael http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/?p=2588 “Midwinter Sun” by Victor Westerholm (1860-1919) ( Click for big, as usual. ) This is the second in a seasonal series of paintings featuring snow. Westerholm’s bio reads: born at Turku, Finland on January 4, 1860 and died in Turku on 19 November, 1919. He first studied under Eugen Dücker in Düsseldorf. He then became [...]
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