Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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William Logsdail
William Logsdail was an English painter active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted portraits, still life, history and genre subjects, but was known in particular for his beautiful portrayals of London and Venice, many of which were panted on location. His rich, textural evocations of streets and buildings often feel saturated…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre in Winter
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on their site. This is part of a remarkable series of views of two of the grand boulevards of Paris, painted from a hotel room over the period of three months…
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Mike Wise
Mike Wise is a painter based on Whidby Island in Washington who combines loose, gestural brushwork with dimensionally textural applications of painting knives to achieve a fascinating surface quality. He works with contrasts of roughly formed lost-and-found edges and punctuations of more sharply defined forms to give his work a feeling of subjects emerging from…
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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…