Author: cparker
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Voting for the Arts?
If you care about federal funding for museums, libraries, cultural institutions in general, funding for arts education, funding for the insurance that makes inter-museum loans for shows possible, or funding for the arts in general, you should make sure to go to your local polling place on election day and vote in favor of those…
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Michael Cheval (update)
Michael Cheval, who I first featured back in 2014, is a contemporaty painter, born in Russia, raised in Germany and who studied at the Ashgabad school of Fine Art in Turkmenistan. I often look sideways at contemporaty artists who call entmselves “Surrealists”, without adhearing to the Surrealist doctrine of unconscious or dream based imagery. Refreshingly,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edith Hayllar’s Five o’clock tea
Five o’clock tea, Edith Hayllar (1860–1948), oil on canvas, 18 x 14 in. (46 x 35 cm). Image is from a 2011 Christie’s auction. I assume the original is in a private collection. My eye imediately goes to the the almost sihlouetted woman sitting at the top of a small flight of stairs, her arm…
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth’s Flat Boat
Flat Boat, Andrew Wyeth, watercolor, drybrush on paper; 22 x 29 inches (56 x 74 cm). Image is from Sotheby’s past auction. Original is likely in a private collection. Another of Andrew Wyeth’s deceptively simple drybrush watercolors, singing with texture, harmonized with muted browns and grays, sharpened with striking value contrasts. Just wonderful.
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Sleeping Puppy etching
Sleeping Puppy, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching and drypoint, 1 1/2″ x 3″ (4 x 8 cm). This print is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. From their page, you can zoom or download the large image. This tiny etching of a sleeping puppy, hardly the expected subject for a Rembrandt etching,…
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Debbie Tsoi
Debbie Tsoi is a concept artist based in Sweden. I don’t know if the exampl images I’ve shown here here are for specific projects, or for her own enjoyment. Her work can be dramatic, but it often subtle, with a nuanced play of light and shadow. Her style has elements in common with certain genres…