Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Bob Rudd
Bob Rudd is a British painter who works in both watercolor and oil, though watercolor is his primary focus. His colorful landscape and architectural subjects are depicted with an interesting range of technique, from loose and free to more exacting. In what I feel are some of his most interesting compositions, he combines in the…
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“World War I and American Art” at PAFA
“World War I and American Art” is an exhibition currently at the Museum of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts here in Philadelphia. Drawing partly from their own collection and partly from loans, the Academy’s Museum of has mounted an exhibition that delves into the response of American artists to the First World War…
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Some wise suggestions for artists from Neil Gaiman’s 2012 address to the University of the Arts
For those who are dismayed, as I am, at the recent turn of events, and the likely devastating effect it will have on the state of the arts here in the U.S. (see my before the fact storm warning to that effect), I offer some insightful suggestions about art in the face of adversity from…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bosch’s vision of Hell
Hell (Right panel of tryptich, The Garden of Earthly Delights); Hieronymus Bosch Link is to downloadable file on Wikipedia, which also has a page devoted to the entire work. Original is in the Museo del Prado, but they don’t offer a high resolution version on their site. There is a high-resolution file of the entire…
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Eye Candy for Today: Cecilia Beaux portrait of Ernesta
Ernesta, Cecilia Beaux In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Use the download or zoom links below the image on their site. This beautiful and sensitive portrait by the extraordinary American painter Cecilia Beaux is of her niece, Ernesta Drinker. Ernesta was one of Beaux’s favorite subjects, and she painted her numerous…
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Vladimir Kush (update)
Vladimir Kush is a Russian painter now living in the US, who I first wrote about in 2007. Kush paints in a style derived from Surrealism, but that might more correctly be thought of as Magic Realism. Since my last post, his website has been expanded with additional work, but it has also become more…