Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
The birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; the original is in the Uffizi Gallery; there is a very hi-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons (Note that the full-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons is one of the largest I’ve seen on the web, over 200MB,…
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Albert Goodwin
Albert Goodwin was an English painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goodwin started his artist career early, coming under the tutelage or Pre-Raphaelite painters Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown at an early age, and exhibiting at the Royal Academy at the age of 15. I his later career he was…
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Minh Dam
Originally from Hanoi, Vietnam, Minh Dam is an architect and watercolor painter based in Poland. He is the founder of Lineare Art Studio in Warsaw, and a co-founder of the Polish Watercolor Society. Minh Dam’s primary focus in his paintings is cityscape. He take as his subjects cities in Poland and other parts of Europe,…
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Ken Auster, 1949-2016
California artist Ken Auster started his artistic career with poster and t-shirt graphics in the milieu of 1960s surfing culture. He went on from there to plain air painting, and established his signature subject choices of streetcars, contemporary surfing scenes, California landscapes and restaurant interiors. All were approached with bold brush work, vibrant color and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Isaby crayon portrait
Lady of the Court of Napoléon I, Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Isabey In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, roughly 10×7 in (25×18 cm). Though graphite pencils largely took the place of chalk and crayon in the late 19th century, this beautiful portrait drawing — done at the turn of the 19th century and attributed to court…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s “An Artist in His Studio”
An Artist in His Studio, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many, if not most paintings are not named by the artist, but by subsequent buyers, sellers or scholars. If Sargent named this one (and…