{"id":310,"date":"2019-02-28T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/?p=310"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:39:55","slug":"blog-post-8-braldt-bralds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/2019\/02\/28\/blog-post-8-braldt-bralds\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #8 Braldt Bralds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many other iconic illustrators, Brandt Brands started off in illustration before turning to his current profession as a fine art painter and even taught as an instructor at New Yorks School of Visual arts for a couple of years. I was initially attracted to him because of unique full name as the first and last are to similar to each other to be natural and to my joy, I found that a quick google search showed his large archive of cat paintings and illustration. Besides that, however, he has other very strong and impactful paintings. From my experience, though, it is very difficult to find evidence of his illustration background as his many oil paintings and fine art prints prevail over them on the internet. His style nowadays is described as a &#8220;Dutch Master&#8217;s style&#8221; and the term conceptual realism is also used. The Greenwich workshop appropriately labels most of his art as &#8220;of this world, but not in this world&#8221; and is perhaps a couple steps away from being considered Surrealism art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.picturethisgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Mixed-Bag-Braldt-Bralds-400x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>A Mixed Bag<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-13.png 400w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-13-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-13-71x96.png 71w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Asparagus <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-14.png 400w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-14-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-14-109x96.png 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Sometimes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-17.png 447w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-17-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-17-72x96.png 72w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><figcaption>Tastes from a Different World <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-19.png 223w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6504\/2019\/02\/image-19-95x96.png 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><figcaption>Ace in the Hole<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sources: http:\/\/braldtbraldsstudio.com\/Image.asp?ImageID=2559139&amp;apid=1&amp;gpid=1&amp;ipid=1&amp;AKey=FRBDN7S4  http:\/\/www.greenwichworkshop.com\/thumbnails\/default.asp?a=12&amp;detailtype=artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other iconic illustrators, Brandt Brands started off in illustration before turning to his current profession as a fine art painter and even taught as an instructor at New Yorks School of Visual arts for a couple of years. I was initially attracted to him because of unique full name as the first and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6464,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-131-res"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/geraldineyaris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}