Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Edwin Landseer scene from Shakespeare
Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom, Edwin Landseer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable version. Edwin Landseer was a Victorian painter noted in particular for his sensitive and beautifully portrayals of…
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Iryna Yermolova
Iryna Yermolova is a Ukrainian artist now based in the the UK. She primarily paints figures and still life. I find her loose, gestural style and rich color palette particularly appealing in the latter. She often defines her forms in brusquely textural blocks and planes of color, giving her work a tactile, sculptural quality that…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Poynter’s Helena and Hermia
Helena and Hermia, Edward John Poynter Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Victorian painter Edward Poynter gives us a beautiful and sensitive portrayal of the characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At once idealized and…
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Penleigh Boyd
Theodore Penleigh Boyd was an Australian painter active in the early 20th century. Boyd was born in England. His parents were both established artists, and he studied with them as well as at the National Gallery Art School in Victoria. He traveled in Europe and was influenced by the painters he met in Paris to…
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Arantzazu Martinez
Originally from Vitoria, Spain, Arantzazu Martinez moved to New York in search of 19th century style classical training. There she studied with Jacob Collins, both at the New York Academy of Figurative Art and the Water Street Atelier. Martinez frequently puts her classical training in service of the interpretation of fantastical literary subjects, both historic,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching and preliminary painting
Portrait of Ephraim Bueno, Physician, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching & drypoint; roughly 8 x 7 inches (21 x 18 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, original is in the Jewish Museum, New York, which has a downloadable version. Portrait of a Man, thought to be Dr. Ephraïm Bueno, Rembrandt, oil on…