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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Mastery of perfection

9:30 AM | Posted by Alex "Boti" Fernandez |

Jean Léon Gérôme.
1824 - 1904.
One of my favorite painters and to me one of the best realist painters to ever use a brush, his mastery over different textures is enviable.
here's a video of some of his works.
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1 comments:

RODRiGUEZ said...

i dint know much of his work

June 16, 2009 at 3:27 PM

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