Simon Griffee

What: Painting

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• Centennial Celebration Logotype for Columbia University’s Core Curriculum

  

  A glimpse of the logotype design for Columbia University’s Centennial Celebration of the Core Curriculum.

  The background image in this test is a detail of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People.

  It has been a pleasure to work with Columbia College on this project.

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• The Serious and the Smirk The Smile in Portraiture #

  Why do we so seldom see people smiling in painted portraits? Nicholas Jeeves explores the history of the smile through the ages of portraiture, from Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Alexander Gardner’s photographs of Abraham Lincoln.

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• Simon Stålenhag’s Paintings #

  From a childhood that never was and a future that could have been.

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• Favourite Paintings from Gemme dell’Impressionismo Exhibition in Ara Pacis, Rome

  • Bulb Fields, 1883 by Vincent Van Gogh
  • Bacchanalia. The Battle of Love by Paul Cezanne, 1880
  • The Fence by Camille Pissarro, 1872