Author: cparker
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Alfred Sisley snow scenes
Even though most people in North America, north of the 37th parallel or so, are pretty tired of seeing show (and wishing they could send it to Sochi, where they are apparently having trouble keeping it from melting during the Winter Olympics), there is one sub-group of people who see snow differently — painters. Some…
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The Monuments Men at the Met: Treasures Saved During World War II
As well they should, a number of art museums are seeking to increase public interest by arranging tours, virtual or otherwise, of works in their collection relevant to the new feature film, The Monuments Men. These can be works either recovered, or preemptively protected from the Nazi’s attempt to accumulate — and potentially destroy —…
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Mark Fredrickson
Mark Fredrickson is a well-established illustrator whose clients include Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, Business Week and Mad Magazine. His range of style reaches from straightforwardly realistic to highly exaggerated caricature. At times, he walks a line between portraiture and caricature, as in his portrayal of Phillip Seymour Hoffman (above, top). All of…
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Jules Joseph Lefebvre
Jules Joseph Lefebvre was an academic painter who began his career with history paintings, and later moved to specializing in portraits and female nudes, the latter often in the role of subjects from history or mythology. His work was well received at the Paris Salon, and he became a respected teacher at the Académie Julian.…
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Self-portraits 11
More historic “selfies” in paint and chalk . (images above: Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Henri Fantin-Latour, Simon Bening, Berthe Morisot, Gilbert Stuart, Alice Pike Barney, Edvard Munch)
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s pine forest
Morning in a Pine Forest, Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Shishkin supposedly had help from Savitsky in painting the bears, and perhaps some of the layout, but Savitsky’s name was later removed from the attribution. Link is to Wikimedia Commons; click through for a high-resolution version. Original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.