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04Apr 2024 by kike_K No Comments

William McGregor

Painting

I have always thought that the paintwork achieved from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th centuries is the golden age of modern. One of my favourites is William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941), a much-refined painter which was deeply and undisguisedly inspired by Vermeer, whose works and technical resources he used to furtherly study and this, particularly focussing in the use of dark-room (camera obscura) conditions by the Dutch master. We cannot deny Paxton's admiration of Vermeer, in particular his portraits and indoor sceneries which are so delicate.

Pieter Saenredam

Painting

The indoor and outdoor churches painted by the Dutch Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) unveil a certain amount of mystery and a refined special touch and that's the reason they have always been so much captivating over time and for so many painters like Vilhelm Hammershoi or Fernando Zobel. The Saenredam's churches are so different as there is no evident sign of faith, no “grandeur” at all. The characters almost never pray, they just walk along the aisle, visit the chapels, just as they were in a cabinet of curiosities. A touch of austere piety given by the use of colour so measured, so accurate, the rest is just architecture, space and light.

Julio C. Cabos

Illustration, scale replicas

The case of Julio C. Cabos has always seemed exceptional, an outstanding technical level for a person who joined the scale-modelling not through a vocational choice but just by chance. We worked together during a number of years, we studied the use of airbrush techniques applied to both illustration and scale-modelling. His professional career covers a wide variety of artistic subjects, with a constant ability to solve and innovate, a huge amount of achieved works and articles published in magazines throughout the world.In the late 1990 decade he chose to focus on scale-figure painting and ever since, has managed to set a high-quality working line along with a notable effort to encourage novel painters and modellers through workshops and demonstrations. In a certain way he has always been a remarkable…

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