Month: November 2017
-
Alois Kalvoda
Alois Kalvoda was a Czech painter who was active primarily in the early 20th century. Though he traveled and studied in Paris and Munich, most of his work focused on landscapes of his native country. These were painted in a naturalistic style early in his career, and in an increasingly impressionist approach as his career…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, Fausto Zonaro
Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, Fausto Zonaro Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; there is also a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. The museum also has a zoomable version of the file, but it looks over-saturated to me.…
-
Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator whose deceptively simple style is simply delightful and simply perfect accompaniment to his wry sense of humor. Gauld is a regular contributor to the (most excellent) British newspaper The Guardian, where his “cultural cartoons” are often literary in subject matter, and New Scientist, where they are obviously…
-
Beautiful “rediscovered” Constable
Dedham Vale With The River Stour In Flood From The Grounds Of Old Hall, East Bergholt, John Constable We’re fortunate that so much of the world’s great art is currently in museums and public collections. Works in private collections can often go unseen by the public for decades, or even hundreds of years. From time…
-
Eye Candy For Today: Leon Bonvin’s Basket of Apples
Still Life: Basket of Apples, Pear, Walnuts and Knife; Léon Bonvin Original is in the Waters Art Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file. There is also a zoomable image on Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, though the one on the Walters’ site is larger. Another beautiful and…
-
Mark Reep (update)
Mark Reep is an artist based near Pittsburgh who I first profiled back in 2006. His dreamlike, enigmatic imaginary landscapes are rendered monochromatically in graphite, charcoal and ink. His monochromatic approach seems to heighten the sense of mystery, as textural rock faces, towers and islands emerge from mist and fog, their exact boundaries obscured. His…