Month: April 2015
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Enoki Toshiyuki
Enoki Toshiyuki is a contemporary Japanese artist who works in the techniques of traditional lacquer painting, as well as oil, acrylic, metal leaf and ink on canvas. His subjects vary from fantasy and myth to more straightforwardly representational, but all incorporate rich textural elements, and frequently, complex patterns. These elements, combined with subdued color and…
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Eye Candy for today: Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of his daughter, Rosalba
Portrait of Rosalba Peale, Rembrandt Peale The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikipedia; the original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which also has a zoomable version. As his father, Charles Wilson Peale, had done for him, Rembrandt Peale tutored his daughters…
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Brian Robinson
After a successful career as a graphic designer, during which he painted when possible on the side, UK artist Brian Robinson transitioned into full time gallery art. His crisply realized watercolor landscapes and townscapes glow with vibrant but naturalistic color, which derives its “punch” largely from Robinson’s knowing placement of adjacent colors, rather than from…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel’s Balcony Room
The Balcony Room (Das Balkonzimmer), Adolph Menzel Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin. In addition to Menzel’s wonderfully casual, painterly brushwork, this piece is noted for its interesting composition, in which a large portion of the image is “empty”. To me,…
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Kehinde Wiley (update)
Kehinde Wiley is a New York based artist who I first profiled in 2012. Wiley paints large scale portraits and figures in which he incorporates complex, detailed and often high-chroma patterns and decorative elements. In the rich earth reds and browns in which he paints the dark skin tones of his subjects, Wiley uses a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques
Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques (attributed to) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin. The portrait of the man has considerably more force and presence than that of the woman, leading me to think that it…