Category: Drawing
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Van Gogh’s drawings
As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts showcasing some “Not the usual Van Gogh’s” (and here), we are often given the impression that an artist’s oeuvre is much smaller that is really is because art publishers and even museums tend to emphasize an artist’s “greatest hits” over and over, at the expense of exploring a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Florence Rodway charcoal and chalk portrait
Portrait of a woman, Florence Rodway Link is to zoomable vdersion on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Art, Australia. Charcoal and chalk on paper, roughly 23 x 18 inches (58 x 46 cm). This forceful but sensitive portrait drawing by 19th century Australian artist Florence…
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Eye Candy for Today: Aelbert Cuyp chalk drawing
View of the Groote Kerk in Dordrecht from the River Maas, Aelbert Cuyp Black and brown chalks, green and gray washes, roughly 7 x 14 inches (18 x 36 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art With simple lines and deft applications of tone — in only a few levels of value…
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Art Venti
Art Venti is a California based artist who creates large scale works on paper in a variety of media, primarily color pencils, watercolor markers and watercolor. He classifies some of his compositions as “pencil paintings”. His subjects can perhaps be considered imaginary realism, representing swirls and curves of paper-like bands, twisted gossamer draperies and diaphanous…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro ink and wash drawing
Taddeo Copying Raphael’s Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with brown wash; roughly 17×8″ (42×17 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum which also has a much…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Cox pencil drawing
Llanfair Church, North Wales for A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours, David Cox Graphite and red chalk, roughly 6×16 inches (14x40cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has a downloadable file. Victorian…