Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing [feedly]



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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing
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View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt, pencil drawing
View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt

On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Getty Museum.

A beautifully complete, but still economical, graphite drawing by the 19th century German landscape artist. I love the way he has handled the tone and textural variation in the distance, middle ground and foreground — particularly his gestural definition of the trees.


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