Month: December 2016
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Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer’s At the Window
At the Window, Winslow Homer Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Princeton University Art Museum, which has background on the painting on their website. Almost like a 17th century Dutch portrait, this much more casual image of a young woman at a window…
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James Crandall
James Crandall is a California based artist who transitioned from a career in concept art for advertising and film into full time gallery painting. His subjects are often urban landscape and everyday activities. Many of the European subjects are from his visits to his grandfather’s hometown of Lucca, Italy. Crandall renders his compositions in blocky,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Poynter’s Lesbia and Her Sparrow
Lesbia and Her Sparrow, Sir Edward John Poynter Link is to downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in a private collection; information on the painting can be found in the Bonham’s auction page for its last sale. The painting is a reference to accounts by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus of his…
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Daud Akhriev
Originally from the former Soviet Union, where he studied at the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, Daud Akhriev is a painter who currently divides his time between the U.S. and Spain. Akhriev works in a variety of mediums, primarily oil, but also watercolor and tempera, as well as working in ceramics, sculpture and mosaics. Some…
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Daniel Merriam (update)
Danial Merriam is an artist I first wrote about in 2012, who is known for his fantastical architectural dreamscapes. Merriam draws on his background in architectural and commercial illustration to inform his architecture-themed imaginings with nuanced geometric solidity, somewhat in the tradition of capriccio popular in the 18th and 19th centuries (see my posts on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life with apples
Still Life with Apples, Grapes, Melons, Bread, Jug and Bottle, Luis Meléndez Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional D’Arte De Catalunya. Here is another beautiful still life by 17th century Spanish master Luis Egidio Meléndez. I’m particularly fascinated in this arrangement…