Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: La Tour’s Joseph
Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour; oil on canvas; roughly 54 x 40 in (137 x 101 cm) Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is listed as being in the Louvre (though I can’t find it in a search of the Louvre’s online database). 17th century French painter Georges de La…
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Carl Moll
Carl Moll was a Vienesse painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose work embodied influences from French Impressionism, Pointillism and Art Nouveau. His catalogue of paintings that celebrate natural beauty and domesticity is somewhat tarnished by his political embrace of the early Nazi Party in Vienna.
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea
Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea, James Abbott McNeill Whistler; oil on wood, roughly 20 x 24″ (61 x 50cm) Link above is to Zoomable image on Google Art Project; original is in the Tate, London; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons. Whistler often titled his pieces in musical terms; many of his works are…
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Plein air event in Lehigh Valley offers free Vasari oil paint
From now until October 15, 2022, there is a plein air painting event in Easton, PA co-sponsored by the Karl Stirner Arts Trail and Vasari Classic Artist’s Oil Colors, makers of what is arguably the finest handcrafted oil paint available. This is a fledgling event, so participants have an opportunity to get in on something…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Autumn
Autumn, Alphonse Mucha; color lithograph, roughly 40 x 21 inches (103 x 54cm) Image sourced from here; direct link here; info here. This is one of the panels from Mucha’s first and perhaps most successful series of decorative panels, The Seasons, which he created in 1896. This and Summer are my favorites from the series.…
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Charles Edward Hallé
Charles Edward Hallé was an English painter who studied in both England and France. He painted portraits, genre scenes and history scenes and was influenced by Neo-Classicism, Venetian art and the British Pre-Raphaelites. I haven’t found a great deal of work by Hallé on the web, but there is enough to be of interest.