St. Paul’s from the River: Morning Sun in Winter, Henri Le Sidaner Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Google lists the original as in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, but I can’t find an image on their Read More …
More in my ongoing series of posts about artists’ self-portraits. I find self-portraits fascinating not just for the range of time periods and styles, but for the interesting variation in the way artists pose themselves. (Images above, links to my posts: Henri Martin, Marie-Suzanne Roslin, Read More …
A number of art museums have been revitalizing their websites as they begin to realize what a powerful tool they are for public relations, as well as for their theoretical mission of education. Not all can aspire to the gold standard set a few years Read More …
Even though most people in North America, north of the 37th parallel or so, are pretty tired of seeing show (and wishing they could send it to Sochi, where they are apparently having trouble keeping it from melting during the Winter Olympics), there is one Read More …
No — it’s not the subject of a real-world exhibit somewhere, though that might be nice — just a thought that occurred to me while looking through some images of Impressionist paintings. One of the things that set the Impressionists apart was their insistence, like Read More …
The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is winding down an exhibition titled Gustave Caillebotte: An Inpressionist and Photography, in which they showcase the compositional and representational relationship between the avant guard painters and the newly popular medium of photography. Caillebotte is, to my mind, much underappreciated as Read More …