Month: February 2014
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Matt Rockefeller
Given the conceptual sophistication and confident execution of Matt Rockefeller’s illustration and visual development work, you may be surprised, as I was, to discover that he is still in his final year at Maryland Institute College of Art. His website has examples of his work in both illustration and concept art, as well as a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Parc Monceau
Landscape: The Parc Monceau, Claude Monet. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Just a little reminder from Monet that spring will indeed be back — at some point.
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Gallery of the Golden Age, Amsterdam
Art museums are like icebergs, in that only a small part of their collection is visible at any given time. It’s always a plus when museums manage to display normally unseen works in different venues. Three museums in Amsterdam, the Rijskmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum and the Hermitage Amsterdam, are launching a joint long-term exhibit, called…
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Tom Root
Tom Root is a painter and portraitist who studied at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut and the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida, and currently resides in Tennessee. Root’s work often has a fascinating quality of combining elements of drawing and painting in the same piece. In many of his…
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Landscape alphabet, L.E.M. Jones
This wonderful alphabet, composed of landscape images, was created in the early 19th century. If I understand correctly, it was designed and drawn by an artist named L.E.M. Jones, and then printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, who may have made the lithographic drawings from which the prints were pulled. Full set is in the British…
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Stefaan Eyckmans
The elegantly refined still life paintings of Belgian painter Stefaan Eyckmans resonate with the traditions of the 17th century “Golden age” Dutch and Flemish still life masters, as well as evoking the sense of stillness and the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary exemplified by Chardin. Taught primarily by his father, painter and commercial…