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Month: November 2015

  • Karl Friedrich Lessing

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    Karl Friedrich Lessing was a 19th century German painter who specialized in landscape and history painting. In his landscapes, Lessing was influenced by the Romantic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, and Lessing himself became an influential teacher and painter, one of the primary figures in the Dusseldorf school of landscape painting. Lessing reveled in the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: William Henry Hunt ink and watercolor interior

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    Interior of Bushey Church, William Henry Hunt Pen and brown ink and watercolor, roughly 17×13 in. (42x33cm) The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The NGA has downloadable files, though you need a free account to access the largest one. This…

  • Alexandre Reider

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    Brazilian painter Alxeandre Reider is based in São Paulo, where he was born where he studied at the Pan American School of Arts. He also added to his study of painting with several trips to Europe. Reider’s landscapes are often given a dramatic feeling of depth by his use of atmospheric perspective, at times creating…

  • Kelly Carmody

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    Kelly Carmody is a painter based in Waltham, MA, who focuses on portraits and still life. In her still life, Carmody works in a painterly, immediate approach, and has an interestingly different common theme of dead birds along with the more expected florals, food and vessels. Not a completely unusual theme for artists, particularly going…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alma-Tadema’s Vintage Festival

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    The Vintage Festival, Lawrence Alma-Tadema Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. This is another of Alma-Tadema’s stunning evocations of life in classical Italy, in this case, a festival in Pompeii prior to the eruption of Vesuvius. The enlarged versions…

  • Eileen Goodman

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    Eileen Goodman is painter well known over her long career here in Philadelphia for her naturalistic watercolors of fruit, flowers and gardens. Whet’s not obvious in images of her work is that she often works at a somewhat larger scale than is usually associated with watercolors, sometimes 4×3 ft (122x92cm) or larger. Goodman explores the…