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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Marco Carloni

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    Marco Carloni is a painter based in Rome, whose work is appealing because of his clear, direct observation, economical notation and sensitivity to subtle relationships of light and dark. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Carloni worked for years as an illustrator, matte painter and 3D digital artist before transitioning back…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life with plums

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    Still life with plums, figs, bread, keg, jug and other containers, Luis Egidio Meléndez Link is to a downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museo del Prado. This is another entrancing and deceptively simple still life by the 18th century Spanish master. I have said that my favorite still life painter…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto Venice cityscape

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    The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice; Bernardo Bellotto Link is to the original in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. Following in the footsteps of his more famous uncle and teacher, Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto created…

  • Ian Ramsay

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    Ian Ramsay was born in England, emigrated to the U.S. where he studied at the University of Utah, and now lives and works in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley. Ramsay’s background in architecture shows in his confident handling of complex urban and architectural subjects. His strong draftstmanship also affords him the ability to work with loose…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gabriel Metsu portrait

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    Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants, Gabriel Metsu Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This splendid 17th century portrait by Metsu was for a long time known simply as “Portrait of a Woman”, but the Minneapolis Institute of Arts website…

  • Van Gogh’s drawings

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    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…