Essence Of Beauty In Art

George Inness - In The Berkshires c. 1840

Georg Janny - Summer Night c. 1926 

This is a background screencap from Disney's Lady And The Tramp. This looks massive and incredible!

Tom and Jerry has had some beautiful looking scnerry, but this one stood me out the most. This is Sherwood Forest. I discussed this particular sequence in an aforementioned post.

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/sherwood-forestrobin-hoodwinked-1958.html?m=1

The colors to this make me feel warm inside. This is a painting made by Karel Postl. c. 1810s

Baby ducklings are one of the cutest animals ever.

This looks so cinematic, one of my favorite painters Edward Hopper painted this.

Coast Guard Cove c. 1929

 

I'm immediately falling in love with Thomas Hart Benton's artwork. This one's spectacular. June Morning c. 1945

Here's another great one.

Lastly for now, here's a gorgeous shot from Silly Symphonies Goddess Of Spring (1934)

Next post I'll be willing to talk about the full short.

Wiktor Korecki - New Favorite

 Ever heard of Wiktor Korecki? Not until recently. He's a truly fantastic painter. 

One of my favorite painters come across as lovers for realism, beauty and natural colors. I'm pretty sure there are over thousands of legendary artists that believe in this.

Here's a gallery of his wonderful paintings.

Art like this appeals to me for a reason. The reason why we live on planet Earth is to freely experience what's virtuous and engaging about it. I love how Wiktor in particular invents something that understands diversity. He sometimes paints winter themes, gorgeous sunsets, and loads of different styles of trees. 

Paintings Galore/Vintage Goodies

 

I love a good bit of vintage and old paintings and my favorites seem to be pin-up model art. These are absolutely glorious, they have had wide appeal for generations and it's time for me to be able to talk about these once more.

Al Buell is probably my favorites when it comes to this style. He designs one of the best pin-ups. I love this one here where we get to see the fully watercolored portrait of the woman, but the other 2 are minimal sketches.

 

I never knew why I was so drawn to artists like this, but there's one thing I can consider myself saying when it comes to this style of artistry, it's eloquent, authentic and peaceful. There's not a ton of action or nonsense about, it's all plain simple. 

Al Buell alongside other artists I admire knew the truth about self-realization.

Here's something ambitious and massive, one of my favorites from Al.

Next is Pearl Frush, it's such a rare circumstance to explore a female glamour artist, but I'm glad I'm able to talk about her because she's extremely overlooked and not alot has been said about these paintings. They're highly influential and handsome.

I absolutely adore these portraits. It's dreamy and fancy but in a very cute way. Simple yet extremely captivating. 

The colors to this one is giving off honey-sweet visual appeal. To me it feels like an absolute blessing to have someone draw you in a more polished and exquisite style in hand-drawn fashion.

I actually have a drawing of one of my female characters, Magsie that resembles Frush's drawings but this was made even before I knew about her art.

Alexander Sharpe Ross has had a collection of remarkable paintings, his art is interesting, like both Frush, and Buell, alot of realism and soft natural textures help gain instant appeal, to me at least.

Ross has variety in his artistic skills, I love how in this painting, both the man and woman have a grayish tone than the usual colors applied to their realistic values.

Finally, Andrew Loomis, he's a portrait expert in almost every single turn he fabricates. I need to know more about him. I love his sense of realism. It's to a perfect extent if I'm totally being honest with you.

If I can experience this man full flight I'll definitely be making a singular post on his work.

I absolutely love these colors!

The blue skies are really nice, I love the bright but natural yellow dress, and I love the extra addition of adding butterflies and flowers to the illustration. This guy's got a thing for mother nature.

Well, I'm outta here, hopefully learning about these new sets of artists makes you want to explore more about them, they deserve attention and recognition in that regard.

I got some posts related to this specific topic you don't wanna miss! 

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/natural-artists-swinnerton-and-rabiers.html?m=1

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-2-new-favorite-people.html?m=1

Easter Fun

 

Happy Easter, fellas. Hope it's been a good one so far. 

This gives off pastel color palette vibes. Kaoru Yamada is an artist I'm completely not aware of but I like the art alot. It's very lively just like with other painters I enjoy.

Next is my favorite Easter styled cover from The Saturday Evening Post. Kenneth Stuart must've had alot of inspiration from the classic cartoons because it works perfectly from that range. Still has some great colors though. 

I've been obsessed with these lately.

This is the first shot from Silly Symphonies Funny Little Bunnies (1934). This is fantastic. One of the best 30 second openings to a cartoon. Has some really happy n' gay type music in it which is easy to appreciate.

Here's something tasty. Remember these? 

Last month I talked about Bugs Bunny's Easter Yeggs (1947) feel free to check it out here

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/easter-with-bugs-bunny.html?m=1

Pure nostalgic bliss. 

Well, hopefully you find a few of these images interesting. Happy Easter here's a 3 minute short film I genuinely like

Peter Cottontail (1951)

Chuck Jones Paintings

HEY! 

 Don't click off this if your a big Chuck Jones fan. This isn't going too hard.

 

I have no harsh feelings to say about Chuck Jones's work specifically Looney Tunes. I think alot of his cartoons are highly influential and funny to me. But in my taste, he isn't one of the greats as being a director. I do have problems with his cartoons.

For one thing, I cannot stand some of his Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons for some reason. They really did not hit as much as I used to like them back then. I think it was how the Coyote actually used his products. For some of the shorts, he feels like he's just using them for the sake of just looking at them. 

Whenever that happens my personal experience is that the Coyote is actually the stupid one himself that he forgot he's going for his meal, the roadrunner. Besides the roadrunner is just there, but he's the more smarter one and I actually kinda relate to his let-live, fast moving nature. 

I also had some problems with Pepe Le Pew's cartoons as well. I like Pepe's romantic personality and the fact that the cat, Penelope senses his awful smell but Pepe himself is hugging her so strongly that she can't escape is such a weird but clever concept. But I would say some of these can go a little too far in my taste, most of them are extremely repetitive and unwatchable.

That being said I don't dislike Chuck Jones, he is a talented animator but like with Robert McKimson, Art Davis, and especially Bob Clampett, it's safe to say that he's fine but not as fantastic as the others in my opinion.

But as an illustrator?

Count me in, he's definitely way more interesting with doing art than actual cartoons. 

This is an unpopular opinion, but his paintings he made after the classic looney tunes went to its final stage and onwards, are actually brilliant.

I have never seen Coyote dream of him actually catching the roadrunner. I wished that was what the Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons were actually like instead of the same plot of him catching the same thing over and over again. 

I feel more drawn to Sam and Ralph's cartoons since in those, there are cartoons where the introduction is different and they have more characters by sometimes talking to each other.

I'll admit it, both of these paintings are gorgeous.

Robin Hood Daffy is probably one of my favorite Chuck Jones cartoons in the later era. I admire this one. Daffy's expression here is too impeccable.

Imagine what Foghorn Leghorn would've been if Chuck Jones made him. Promise me, it would've been alot less funnier and more wiser. I like his design though.

This is by far my favorite painting from Chuck Jones. Daffy + Fantasia's Sorcerer Apprentice would've been a hilarious parody.

I really like this Pepe Le Pew painting. This feels more "aesthetic" than the others I showed you so far.

Of course Chuck Jones himself was going to consider painting his more iconic scenes in his cartoons especially with Rabbit Of Seville, and I love it. This is coming from one of my favorite all-time frames in a cartoon ever. 

A few more to look at