Month: September 2020
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František Dvořák (Franz Dvorak)
František Dvořák, who changed his family name from Bruner — also known as Franz Bruner or Franz Dvorak — was a Czech painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied in Prague, Vienna and Munich, and traveled to France with Czech painters Alfons Mucha and Karel Mašek. He later went on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henry La Thangue’s Ligurian Roses
Ligurian Roses, Henry Herbert La Thangue; oil on canvas, roughly 41 x 28 in. (105 x 96 cm), link is to Sotheby’s auction in 2011. I assume the current location of the original is a private collection. Henry La Thangue was an English painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was…
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TRIADS: Painting with Three Colors, James Gurney
In his latest instructional video, TRIADS: Painting with Three Colors, painter James Gurney explores three-color palettes and gives a good introduction to the basic concepts of painting with limited palettes. Though not specifically about triadic color schemes in the classic sense (in which the colors are evenly spaced around the color wheel), his exploration of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sunny Autumn Day by George Inness
Sunny Autumn Day by George Inness Oil on canvas, approximately 32 x 42 in. (81 x 106 cm). Link is to the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has the original in its collection and offers both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. It’s easy to see the visual drama of the light and…
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Jakob Matthias Schmutzer
Jakob Schmutzer Was an Austrian artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was primarily an engraver, and also a painter, but what I find most appealing, and what you will find most often if you research his work on the internet, are his chalk drawings. His drawings sometimes of figures, but…
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Eye Candy for Today: Julian Onderdonk landscape
Late Afternoon, Julian Onderdonk The link is to the image page on WikiArt, which unfortunately doesn’t have much information about the size or location of the original. If you click on “View all sizes” under the image on their page, you can access a reasonably high res version of the image. Presumably, this is oil…