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An entry into the Blown Covers weekly cover contest, themed “The Gays,” by writer and illustrator Ella German. The cover addresses the recent historic moment for marriage equality, also referencing Maurice Sendak, who had passed away the previous week. Though far from a gay rights activist, Sendak lived as an openly gay man with his partner of half a century. The two never had the opportunity to marry.

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Comic art is, as a general rule, a line-based medium. ... A tangent is when two or more lines interact in a way that insinuates a relationship between them that the artist did not intend. 

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Chinese artist Chang Dai-chien (also known as Zhang Daqian) may not have the kind of name recognition that Pablo Picasso enjoys, but in 2011 he ousted the Spaniard as the biggest auction earner in recent years. ...

As a preeminent painter of twentieth-century China, Chang integrated modern sensibilities into traditional Chinese painting.

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After 35 years of noninvasive research, art experts have turned to rather drastic methods to solve a longstanding Leonardo da Vinci mystery.

Putting aside the state-of-the-art technologies employed in the past decades, the researchers have simply drilled a hole into a frescoed wall that they believe hides a long-lost da Vinci masterpiece known as the "Battle of Anghiari." ...

Unfortunately, the drill wasn't performed on an ordinary wall. Standing in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence's 14th-century city hall, in the imposing Hall of Five Hundred, the wall houses a mural known as the "Battle of Marciano." It was painted by the renowned 15th-century painter, architect and writer Giorgio Vasari.

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This is the legendary "Tram 28" in Lisbon, Portugal. It runs through the narrowest and steepest streets of the Alfama district. I drew the sketch and took the photo.

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Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis campus police officer who pepper-sprayed passive student protesters, is popping up in some of the world’s most famous paintings as part of an Internet meme intended to shame him for his actions. ...

More at the Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr.

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Early 20th Century painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida is known in his native Japan as a Western style artist, and his work is very much in demand.

Having trained in Western style painting, he carried those influences with him when he moved into traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking, also taking inspiration in subjects from his travels in the U.S. and Europe, as well as India and other parts of the world.

Yoshida is considered one of the foremost proponents of the shin hanga (or “new prints”) style, but combined some of that style’s return to the collaborative printmaking of the ukiyo-e system, in which the artist worked with a carver and block printer, with the personal involvement more common to the sosaku hanga (“creative prints”) style emerging at the time. ...

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...the first comparisons of moneyed interests to voracious tentacled creatures date back to the Gilded Age. Here, a quick review of the metaphor's greatest hits.

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Originally trained as a lawyer, 19th Century artist Jean Béraud turned his attention to painting after his studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war. ...

It’s interesting to compare his Absinthe Drinkers (above, bottom) with Degas’s more famous painting of a similar subject.

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The use of X-ray analysis is changing the face of art, and there can be no better example than the recent discovery that a painting by Francisco Goya hanging in the Rijksmuseum originally had a different subject. ...

As to why Goya would have painted a French military leader in the first place, we have to look back to a curious chapter in Spanish history where Joseph Bonaparte — Napoleon’s brother — was installed as the King of Spain. This is all tied up in the Peninsular War, but the important point is that the French never really secured their control of Spain.

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Architects working with robots, firefighters equipped with artificial wings, electric learning machines and airships for everyone: this is the year 2000 – as imagined in 1910 – and it’s a vision of mechanical wonder decked out in Edwardian finery. French artist Villemard produced these illustrations predicting what life would be like at the dawn of the 21st century, and while some are hilarious, others are surprisingly accurate.

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Costume painting is a highly specialized art practiced by only a few people in a few places. It was virtually invented back in the 1970s by two legendary women of the theater. Costume designer Willa Kim needed something extra to realize her designs for the Joffrey Ballet; Sally Ann Parsons, then a draper, worked with Kim on ways to precisely apply dyes suspended in gum so that the fabric could be steamed for colorfastness. ...

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(This is the last post in the series of nineteenth century Finnish women painters. The first three can be found here, here and here.)

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This is what happens when the Internet collides head on with masterpieces of the western artistic tradition. Here, the graceful, lithe forms from classical works of art have been replaced with an fat orange cat. Because why not?

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Born in California in 1926, Asawa, along with her family, was a resident of Japanese internment camps for much of World War II. Following her internment, she studied to become an art teacher, but was unable to finish her degree due to lingering predjudices. Teaching plans thwarted, she made her way to the short-lived but legendary Black Mountain College in North Carolina where creative innovators of the day were partaking of the arts focused curriculum.

Asawa eventually became a wildly successful sculptor, with shows at prominent arts institutions like the Whitney.

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