Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Fortuny’s Print Collector
The Print Collector, Maria Fortuny Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. One of those wonderful 19th interior paintings that in addition to figures, also includes a series of still life subjects as well as a representation of other artworks.
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Eye Candy for Today: J.C. Schotel chalk drawing
Seated Woman Watching a Cradle, J. C. (Johannes Christianus) Schotel Black chalk on paper, roughly 11 x 10 inches (27 x 25 cm); original is in the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There is a soft delicate feeling in both the rendering and quality of light in this drawing by the 19th century Dutch artist,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Clausell’s Burgeoning Springs in Autumn
Burgeoning Springs in Autumn, Joaquin Clausell Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museo Nacional de Arte. Joaquin Clausell was a Mexican artist who lived and worked in Paris during the time the French Impressionists were active. In this early Autumn scene, he shows…
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Bryan Mark Taylor
Bryan Mark Taylor is a plein air painter based in California who focuses on cityscape and landscape. Taylor travels extensively and many of his subjects are from Europe as well as other locations in the U.S. His crisp, textural treatment of architectural and natural elements often takes on a sculptural feeling, with shadows and interlocking…
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Dustin Van Wechel
I have to say that I am not often drawn to contemporary wildlife art. I find that too often artists will allow the inherent assumed appeal of the subject to outweigh considerations of the painting as a painting; and works are frequently a bit lacking in the characteristics that I find appealing in paintings. There…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s Breakfast in the Loggia
Breakfast in the Loggia, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project. The original is in the Freer/Sackler Gallery. Though the image linked from the latter page in not high resolution, there is a nicely large image linked from this post on the Smithsonian’s Bento blog (above the image, “6301 x…