Month: October 2014
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American Masters 2014 at the Salmagundi Club
American Masters is a yearly exhibit organized by the Salmagundi Club in NYC. I’m remiss in not mentioning this year’s earlier as it ends on October 24, 2014. For those who can’t see the exhibit in person, there is a nice selection of the work online. I’ve pulled out a sampling for the images here.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt self-portrait at the age of 53
Self-portrait, Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt painted this remarkable self-portrait in 1659, after he had suffered frorm personal financial collapse. Much can be read into his expression, but the painting itself is a triumph. As he had done on other occasions, Rembrandt posed himself in the manner of a work by a previous master, in this…
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Christiane Beauregard
Canadian illustrator Christiane Beauregard apparently takes inspiration from early 20th century Modernist artists like Miro, Léger and Picasso, an possibly other movements like Surrealism and Art Nouveau, and playfully blends them with her own unique vision into a very contemporary vector art style. Using fresh, bold color palettes, lots of eye catching curvilinear forms and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cortès Parisian street scene
La Republique, Edouard-Léon Cortès On Galerie Ary Jan. In their similarity to each other, and those of Antoine Blanchard, Eugene Galien-Laloue and others, you could call these Belle Époque Parisian street scenes formulaic — but it’s a formula, that when well done, I don’t tire of. Often set in the rain or overcast, with blue-gray…
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Joseph Noel Paton
Joseph Noel Paton was a Scottish painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He became friends with Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood co-founder John Everett Millais while they were students at the Royal Academy. Though he declined an offer to formally join the Pre-Raphaelites, Paton’s early work, in particular, shows their influence. Paton’s early literary, historical and religious subjects…
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Eye Candy for Today: Wijnand Nuijen landscape
River Landscape with Ruin, Wijnand Nuijen In the Rijksmuseum. I’m frequently delighted by how painterly, and essentially modern, many early 19th century Dutch landscapes are.