Month: January 2016
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Jules-Alexandre Grün
Jules-Alexandre Grün was a French painter, illustrator and poster artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Grün painted the social life of paris, dinner parities and grand celebrations, and designed posters for theatre and other events. There is a blog devoted to his poster work, Jules-Alexandre Grün: The Posters, with a bio.…
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Will Harmuth
New Jersey artist William Harmuth paints landscapes and townscapes in both oil and acrylic. In the former, his color is often laid down in thick, brusque passages, giving the surface an almost sculptural character. His acrylics also give the impression of gestural paint application. In the “Traditional” gallery section of his website, you will find…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bellini’s Feast of the Gods
The Feast of the Gods, Giovanni Bellini and Titian Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has downloadable files (the larger of which requires a free login account). Venetian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini‘s last great painting was…
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Wilbert Sweet
Wilbert Sweet is a concept artist and matte painter based in Montreal, where he is currently working with Behaviour Interactive. Sweet is at an early point in his career, and most of the work in his online portfolio appears to be from personal projects. I often find personal projects from concept artists are more interesting…
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Deborah Walker
UK watercolor painter Deborah Walker often takes as her subjects the dramatic rock and chalk cliffs of the southern coast of England. In doing so, she uses the open whites to great advantage in portraying the shimmer of light across water and the craggy surfaces of the chalk walls. Her other favored subjects also frequently…
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Valentin Serov at the Tretyakov Gallery
Though not as well known in Western Europe and the US as some of his contemporaries, Russian painter Valentin Aleksandrovitch Serov is well known and much admired in his home country — so much so that a show of his work currently at the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow has hosted record crowds, and even suffered…