Month: April 2014
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Vladimir Gvozdeff
Vladimir Gvozdeff (Gvozdev) is an artist from (if I’m not mistaken) Slovenia Russia [I was mistaken, see this post’s comments], who works in both two and three dimensional media, often combining them in the same work. On his website, I found two series of particular interest. One is of mechanisms — clockwork animals drawn out…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fanny Brate interior
A Day of Celebration, Fanny Brate Original is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
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Grunewald’s The Resurrection, from the Isenheim Altarpiece
This painting, from the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, is one of the most striking depictions of the Resurrection in the history of art. I don’t think I can describe it better than I did in my post on Matthias Grünewald from 2006. The original is in the Musée Unterlinden, but the best reproductions I’ve…
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Bruce Crane
American painter Robert Bruce Crane became associated with the American Impressionists of the Old Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut. In his later career, he developed into a Tonalist — diffusing his scenes of fall and winter landscapes into misty passages of light and color.
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Jan van Eyck’s The Last Judgement
This is the companion piece to Van Eyck’s Crucifixion, which I featured yesterday. Though the Crucifixion panel is a strong and impressive painting — particularly given the small size of the panels of this diptych, each of which is only 22×7″ (56x20cm) — this panel of the Last Judgement is just astonishing. I can’t say…
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A. J. Casson
Alfred Joseph Casson was a member of the Group of Seven — likeminded Canadian landscape painters active in the early part of the 20th century. Casson worked in watercolor, oil and printmaking, capturing in his landscapes both the nature of the land, and his own fascinating vision — in which the shapes of trees, rocks…