Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Cole’s Architect’s Dream
Architect’s Dream, Thomas Cole Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, which also has an interactive feature on the work. This fantastical combination of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Gothic architectural styles — in the midst of which we find…
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Tissot’s Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds, James Tissot This is one of a remarkable series of 350 paintings — done primarily in gouache — in which Tissot depicted events in the New Testament of the Bible relevant to the life of Christ (see my pervious post on James Tissot’s series, “The Life of Christ”). At the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Chardin’s Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougéres, Pots, and Cruets on a Table
Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougéres, Pots, and Cruets on a Table, Jean-Siméon Chardin The original is in the collection of the Getty Museum, which has both a zoomable image, and a large (21MB) downloadable file available on their website. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable version of…
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David Tutwiler
Though he paints landscapes and a variety of other subjects, Michigan based painter David Tutwiler has a particular focus on portraying classic steam trains. These are shown in the context of landscapes, in historical scenes, in snow and fog, winter and summer. In other hands, this might become a tired formula, but Tutwiler approaches it…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marcus Larson’s Waterfall in Småland
Waterfall in Småland, Marcus Larson Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; Original is in the Nationalmuseum Sweden. Swedish landscape painter Marcus Larson — who was at one time a student of the German painter Andreas Achenbach — gives us a wonderfully dramatic landscape in the Romantic tradition,…
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Anatoly Korobkin
Anatoly Korobkin studied at the Krasnodar Art College and The Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; and has subsequently taught at the latter school as well as the Moscow School of Watercolor Andriaka. Korobkin has a richly painterly style, with free brush work applied over a foundation of firm classical draftsmanship. Korobkin is married…