Month: April 2016
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching and preliminary painting
Portrait of Ephraim Bueno, Physician, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching & drypoint; roughly 8 x 7 inches (21 x 18 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, original is in the Jewish Museum, New York, which has a downloadable version. Portrait of a Man, thought to be Dr. Ephraïm Bueno, Rembrandt, oil on…
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Lars Lerin
Lars Lerin is a contemporary Swedish watercolorist who is well known and influential in his home country, but not as widely recognized here in the U.S. as he should be. Lerin’s approach combines a loose, seemingly casual application of color with strong underlying draftsmanship. The combination is particularly appealing in his portrayals of architectural subjects.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Elioth Gruner’s Spring Frost
Spring Frost, Elioth Gruner Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Like many of the artists in Australia who were impressed by the approach of French Impressionism as its influence spread from Europe to other continents, Australian artist…
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Shinji Tsuchimochi’s 100 Views of Tokyo
The name of Japanese illustrator Shinji Tsuchimochi’s series of drawings, “100 Views of Tokyo“, is of course a reference to the well known series of 19th century woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige, “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (AKA Tokyo). Tsuchimochi’s colorful, sometimes straightforward but often fanciful drawings of his home city owe as much…
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Eye Candy for Today: François-Louis Français landscape
A Stream through a Dense Forest, François-Louis Français Watercolor and gouache with pen and ink; roughly 18×14″ (46x34cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which also has a zoomable version as well as downloadable images (free registration required for largest file size). This…
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“Made in California” at Arcadia Contemporary
Arcadia Contemporary, a long-time bastion of representational art in New York’s SoHo gallery district, has just moved to Santa Monica California. They are opening their first exhibition there with a group show of seven artists they represent who are based in California. “Made in California” opens tomorrow, Saturday April 2, 2016 with an opening reception…