Month: December 2020
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted’s Sunlit Winter Landscape
Sunlit Winter Landscape, Peder Mørk Mønsted, oil on canvas, 28 x 39 inches (72 x 98 cm); Link is to Bukowski’s auctions, large version can be found here. Another beautiful winter scene Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted, who I count as one of my favorite landscape painters. I love the suggestion of a delicate tracery…
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Martina Krupičková
Martina Krupičková is a czech painter who focuses on landscape and cityscape. Her website is in both Czech and English, with the English paragraphs right after the Czech ones. Krupičková paints with painting knives. By varying her marks, she avoids the uniform sameness I sometimes see in paintings done entirely with a painting knife. She…
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Eye Candy for Today: Anton Pieck’s The Roof Painter
The Roof Painter, Anton Pieck 20th century Dutch illustrator, printmaker and gallery artist Anton Pieck was noted for his charming winter scenes. Here, he shows an artist, perhaps meant to be a representation of Pieck himself, finding a view of the town that requires him to climb to a roof peak. A boy brings him…
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Ernst Grillhiesl (“ErnstG”)
Ernst Grillhiesl, who signs his work “ErnstG”, is a contemporary German painter who works in watercolor. His landscape subjects usually include architectural elements, often set almost on the horizon with a deep but de-emphasized foreground. Grillhiesl’s style is a combination of crisp, precise rendering of buildings and other artificial objects and a looser, somewhat softer…
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Eye Candy for Today: Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also sometimes called “Woman in Gold” or “Lady in Gold”), Gustav Klimt; gold leaf, silver leaf, and oil on canvas; 55 x 55 inches (140 x 140 cm); in the collection of the Neue Galerie, New York. Link is to the file page for the Neue Galerie version of the…
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Charles Leickert (revisited)
Belgian born 19th century painter Charles Henri Joseph Leickert spent most of his career living and painting in the Netherlands. He is noted for his winter scenes, particularly of activity on frozen rivers, and his cityscapes, rich with the textures of brick and stone. When I first featured Leickert on Lines and Colors back in…